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Ye Historie 

OF YE 

TOWN OF GREENWICH 

County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut 



WITH 

Genealogical Notes on the Adams, Avery, Banks, Betts, Brown, 
Brundage, Brush, Budd, Bush, Close, Davis, Dayton, Denton, 
Ferris, Finch, Green, Hendrie, Hobby, Holly, Holmes, Horton, 
Howe, Hubbard, Husted, Ingersoll, Knapp, Lockwood, Lyon, 
Marshall, Mead, Merritt, Mills, Palmer, Peck, Purdy, 
Reynolds, Ritch, Rundle, Sackett, Scofield, Selleck, 
Seymour, Sherwood, Slater, Smith, Studwell, 
Sutherland, Sutton, Todd, Waring, Water- 
bury, Webb, Weed, White, Wilcox, Wilson, 
AND Worden Families 



BY 

Spencer P. Mead, LL.B. 

OF THE NEW YORK BAR 

MEMBER OF THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION, AND THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 
AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE MEAD FAMILY, AND OF THE REYNOLDS 

FAMILY, IN AMERICA 



Being a Revision, Amplification, and Continuation of the History of the Town of 

Greenwich, published in 1857, by Daniel M. Mead, Major loth 

Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer hifantry 



NEW YORK 

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Copyright, 19 ii 
By spencer P. MEAD 



All rights reserved 



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PREFACE. 

The present volume may be considered to be principally 
due to the genealogical work heretofore collated by the 
author. In the research for which he collected a mass of 
data of such general interest that it could not consistently 
be embodied in any one family genealogy; consequently he 
became impressed with the idea that a revised history of 
the Town of Greenwich ought to be compiled, so as to pre- 
serve and present to the public for reference the valuable 
information which he had in his possession, and which in a 
few years would probably be obliterated; therefore this 
volume is submitted to the public for its consideration. 

In the collection of data, the author has in every instance 
selected the most reliable authorities and the best authenti- 
cated records, and has endeavored to set forth a true state- 
ment of the facts; but as there exists among the public 
various traditions with reference to historical matters, and as 
those traditions are in many instances at variance with the 
facts, it is to be hoped that the pubHc will not be too severe 
in its criticisms on learning that many of those traditions are 
mere fairy tales. 

The author is especially indebted to the Hon. Frederick 
A. Hubbard, better known by the literary name of Ezekiel 
Lemondale, for the loan of his historical articles and valuable 
collection of data relating to the Town of Greenwich; also 
to the Hon. Robert Wellstood, Town Clerk of the Town of 
Greenwich ; the Hon. WilHam F. Waterbury, Town Clerk of 
the Town of Stamford; and the Hon. Charies D. Lockwood, 
Judge of Probate for the District of Stamford, for the many 
courtesies extended by them. 



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IV 



Preface 



The author has also made reference to O'Callaghan's 
Documentary History of New York; Thompson's History of 
Long Island; Huntington's History of Stamford, Connecticut; 
Colonial Records of the New Haven Colony; Hoadley 's Colonial 
Records of Connecticut; Kurd's History of Fairfield County, 
Connecticut; Beer's History of Fairfield County, Connecticut; 
Schenck's History of the Town of Fairfield, Connecticut; 
Scharf's History of Westchester County, New York; Bolton's 
History of Westchester County, New York; Baird's History of 
the Town of Rye, New York; Military and Naval Service of 
Connecticut Men, by Johnson; historical articles published 
in The Greenwich Graphic, Greenwich, Connecticut; Collec- 
tions of the Connecticut Historical Society; also many others, 
which the author trusts have been duly credited with the 
information obtained therefrom. If not, it is an oversight, 
which he hopes will be excused. 

The author has also made extensive researches at the 
State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; the Library of the 
Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut; 
the Greenwich Library, Greenwich, Connecticut; the Astor 
and Lenox Libraries, New York City; the Library of the 
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York 
City ; the probate records of New York County, New York ; 
the land and probate records of Westchester County, New 
York; the town and land records of Greenwich, Con- 
necticut; the town, land, and probate records of Stamford, 
Connecticut; and the town, land, and probate records of 
Fairfield, Connecticut. 

The author has been treated with the greatest courtesy 
while engaged in his researches, with but one exception, and 
that was while making an abstract of the probate records at 
Fairfield, Connecticut. The custodian in charge refused to 
allow the author to make copies thereof on the ground that 
they were not public records, and he has been put to great 
expense and inconvenience in securing abstracts of the wills 
and intestacies at that place. 

As regards the records in the Town of Greenwich, the 



Preface v 

author has made a Hst of all the landowners to 1752; a list 
of all the town officers to 191 o; an abstract of the births, 
marriages, and deaths to 1845; and of all the gravestones in 
existence in the Town of Greenwich ; which he had hoped to 
have published for ready public reference and thereby save 
the old records from so much use. Therefore he made 
application to the proper authorities of the Town of Green- 
wich for an appropriation to cover the expense of publication, 
but they failed to see the necessity for it, and the matter has 
been dropped. 

Greenwich, Connecticut, 
July I, 191 1. 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER I 

PAGE 

Indian Occupancy .......... i 

CHAPTER II 

First Settlers — Boundary Line between Greenwich and Stamford — Sub- 
mission to the Jurisdiction of the Dutch ..... 4 

CHAPTER III 

Indian Troubles — Legend of Laddin's Rock — Battle of Strickland 

Plains — Captain John Underbill — Jurisdiction of the Dutch . . 10 

CHAPTER IV 

Greenwich under the Jurisdiction of the New Haven Colony — Green- 
wich a Part of Stamford — Early Deeds — John Mead — Greenwich 
under the Jurisdiction of the Colony of Connecticut — Incorpora- 
tion of Greenwich into a Town — Early Town Meetings — Patrick 
Compromise — Settlement at Horseneck (Borough of Greenwich) . 23 

CHAPTER V 

Rev. EUphalet Jones, First Settled Minister— William Grimes' Will 
— WiUiam Grimes' Land— The First Society— Dissension in the 
First Society — the Town Divided into Two Ecclesiastical Societies — 
Incorporation of the Second Society ....-• 35 

CHAPTER VI 

Boundary Line — Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood — List for 1688 — 
Ye Old Tavern— Greenwich Patent— List for 1697— Rev. Joseph 
Morgan, Miller, at Cos Cob— Cos Cob Mill and Landing— Grants 
for Mills at Dumpling Pond and Horseneck— Wharf at Horseneck 
— Mianus Mill and Landing— Rev. John Jones— Probate Court 
at Stamford— Letter of Rev. Stephen Munson— Incorporation of 
the Stanwich Society ....•••• 4" 



viii Contents 



CHAPTER VII 

King George's War, 1 744-1 748 — French and Indian War, 1 754-1 764 — 
Dr. Amos Mead — Timothy Reynolds — Town Supply of Powder — 
Town Building — First Society without a Settled Minister — Popula- 
tion in 1762 — School Fund of 1762 — Norwalk Proposed as a County 
Seat — Claim to Lands in Pennsylvania ..... 68 

CHAPTER VIII 
Commissioned Officers in the Militia during the Colonial Period . . 92 

CHAPTER IX 

Organization of the Continental Army — Washington Continental 

Guard — Uniforms of the Continental Army . . . -99 

CHAPTER X 

The Revolutionary War — Extracts from Minutes of Town Meetings — 
Soldiers in the Revolution — Incidents of the Revolution — Tories — 
Effect of the Revolution — Ratification of the Constitution — The 
New York and Boston Stage Line — Turnpike Roads — Toll Gate — 
Connecticut Turnpike Company . . . . . • 115 

CHAPTER XI 

War of 18 12 — Soldiers in the War of 1812 — Incidents of the War of 
1812 — Major Ebenezer Mead — Colonel Jabez Fitch — State Con- 
stitution of 1818 — Visit of General Lafayette — Town Building — 
Bridgeport proposed as a County Seat — War with Mexico — Pro- 
bate Court — Town Poor-House . . . . . . .188 

CHAPTER XII 

The Civil War, 1 861-1865 — Extracts from Minutes of Town Meetings — 

Soldiers in the Civil War . . . .201 

CHAPTER XIII 

From the Close of the Civil War to the Present Time — Town Bonds — 
Indebtedness of the Town — Centennial Celebration of General 
Putnam's Ride — Lock-up — Burning of Barns of Alexander Mead — 
Docks at Rocky Neck Point and on Byram Shore — Spanish-Ameri- 
can War — UnveiHng of the Putnam Monument — Unveiling of the 
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument — Town Meetings and Dedication 
of the Present Town Hall — Death of Robert M. Bruce — Bruce 
Memorial Park — Dedication of Putnam Cottage — Captain's Island 
— MiUtia — Investigation of Town Affairs — New Form of Govern- 
ment — Borough of Greenwich ....... 259 



Contents 



IX 



CHAPTER XIV 

Courts — Incidents and Modes of Life of the Early Settlers — A Jour- 
ney by Stage in 1826— Market Boats— Steamboats— Railroads 
—Trolley Roads— Business Centres— Industries— Newspapers- 
Lawyers— Physicians— Hospitals— Fire Companies— Libraries — 
Public Schools — Private Schools— Churches —Hotels— Societies 
and Clubs ...... 



306 



CHAPTER XV 
Alphabetic List of Landowners from the First Indian Deed, 1640, to 1752. 446 



Adams . 
Avery . 
Banks . 

^ Betts . 
Brown 
Brundage 
Brush 
Budd 
Bush 
Close 
Davis 
Dayton 
Denton . 
Ferris 
Finch 
Green 
Hendrie 
Hobby 
Holly 
Holmes 
Horton 
Howe . 

"^ Hubbard 
Husted 
IngersoU 
Knapp . 
Lockwood 
Lyon 
Marshall 



GENEALOGIES 

PAGE 

489 Mead . 

491 Merritt. 

495 Mills . 

501 ^Palmer 

503 Peck . 

510 Purdy . 

511 Reynolds 

514 Ritch . 

515 Run die 
517 Sackett. 

530 Scofield 

531 Selleck . 
533 Seymour 
536 Sherwood 
545 Slater . 
550 Smith . 

554 Studwell 

555 -s Sutherland 
561 Sutton . 
566 Todd . 

568 Waring 

569 Waterbury 
574 Webb 
576 Weed 
593 White 
593 Wilcox 
607 Wilson 
607 Worden 



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Index to Places and Subjects 



Index to Persons 



PAGE 
612 

613 
617 
618 
629 
630 
638 
638 

639 
642 

643 
645 
645 
647 
652 

659 
662 

665 
669 
670 

673 
677 
679 
682 
682 
682 

686 



689 
699 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING 
PAGE 



Arncliff, Residence of Charles T. Wills, Belle Haven. Frontispiece ** 

Gate Lodge on the Old Post Road at the Entrance to Laddin's , 

Rock Farm, NOW THE Property of William L. Marks . . 15 

A Horse and Rider in the Place where Laddin and his Horse 

Fell ........... 16 

Indian Village of Petuquafaen ....... 19 

A View of Part of the Old Grimes Tract at Sound Beach, now 

Known as Shorelands ........ 36 

Ye Old Tavern, Borough of Greenwich. Ebenezer Mead, Land- 
lord IN 1696 .......... 48 

Old Tide Mill at Cos Cob 56 

Old Map of the Town of Greenwich 86 

Ruins of Fort Nonsense . . . . ■ • .120 

The House at Mianus in which Captain Sylvanus Mead was Shot ,^. 

BY Cowboys during the Revolutionary War . . . .146 

Residence of Oliver D. Mead, Field Point Park. Built in 1792 

BY Captain Abraham Mead, an Officer in the Revolutionary ^^ 

War 154 

Residence of the late Colonel Thomas A. Mead, Borough of 
Greenwich. Built in 1798 by Richard Mead, a Revolution- 
ary Soldier. Visited BY General Lafayette IN 1824 .160 

General Putnam's Ride ^^2 

Old Knapp Tavern, later Known as the Tracy House. Dedicated ^> 

AS THE Putnam Cottage IN 1906 '^^ 

Old Cave at Bruce Memorial Park ^70 

John Elbert White, Proprietor of "Ye Greenwich Shop," Jew- 
elry AND Art Goods, Borough of Greenwich. A Descendant ^, 

OF Captain Israel Knapp '73 

xi 



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Illustrations 



FACING 
PAGE 

Residence of the late General Ebenezer Mead . . . 193 

The First Brick House in Greenwich, formerly at Indian Field. 

Built BY Ephraim Mead IN 1830 ...... 198 

Putnam Monument, Borough of Greenwich .... 274 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Borough of Greenwich . .278 

Old Americus Club House, later the Indian Harbor Hotel. 

Torn down in 1895 335 

Residence of Commodore Elias C. Benedict at Indian Harbor, 
and his Steam Yacht "Oneida" with the Mendelssohn Glee 

Club Singing on the Bridge ....... 339' 

Mills of the Mianus Manufacturing Company at North Mianus . 342 ' 

Plant of the Palmer Brothers at Cos Cob ..... 346** 

Mills of the American Felt Company at Glenville . . 348 

Captain Henry S. Lockwood .... 

Residence of Captain E. Frank Lockwood, Cos Cob 

Erwin Edwards, Editor of "The Greenwich Graphic " 

Frederick W. Lyon, Editor OF "The Greenwich News" . . 358 

Norman Talcott, Editor OF " The Greenwich Press " . 359 

Cos Cob District Schoolhouse. Built in 1851 .... 396 

Second Congregational Church ....... 406 

Arthur S. Kimball, East Orange, New Jersey .... 517 

Old Davis Tide Mill. Confiscated during the Revolutionary 

War. Torn down in 1889 ....... 530 

Clarence C. Ferris, A.B., LL.B. ....... 544 

Residence of Augustus Knapp, Borough of Greenwich . . 597 

Robert B. Miller, Editor of the "Lyon Memorial, New York 

Families" .......... 607 

Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., Author of the "History and Genealogy 

OF THE Mead Family" ........ 612^ 

Residence of Mrs. James K. O. Sherwood, at Red Spring Point on 

Long Island Sound, near Glen Cove. ..... 650 

George A. Slater, of the New York Bar 652 



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CHAPTER I. 

INDIAN OCCUPANCY. 

The Town of Greenwich lies in the southwest comer of 
the State of Connecticut, and is bounded westerly and 
northerly by Westchester County, New York; easterly by 
the Town of Stamford; and southerly by the waters of 
Long Island Sound. It is named after Greenwich, County 
Kent, England. The surface is hilly and rocky, and the 
soil is very fertile. 

At the time the first settlement of Connecticut was 
made at Windsor, in 1633, by the EngHsh, there were four 
different Indian tribes occupying the southern portion of 
the present Town of Greenwich. The Miossehassaky, 
Petuquapaen, Asamuck, and Patomuck tribes. The Miosse- 
hassaky tribe occupied the territory now included in and ad- 
jacent to the Borough of Greenwich; the Petuquapaen 
tribe was located at Cos Cob ; and the Asamuck and Pato- 
muck tribes were at Sound Beach. Amogerone and Owen- 
oke were sachems of the Asamuck tribe, and Rammatthone 
and Nawhorone were sachems of the Patomuck tribe. 

The most powerful of these tribes was the Petuquapaen, 
of which Mayn Mayano was sachem, which numbered about 



2 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

five hxindred warriors. The plains at Cos Cob, called the 
Strickland Plains, are divided by a small brook bearing 
the same name, which .empties into the Mianus River near 
the old mill at Cos Cob. On the west side of this brook, 
and close under a high bluff with tall oaks, a short distance 
north of the mill pond at Cos Cob and on the road to North 
Cos Cob, was situated the village of the Petuquapaen tribe, 
which consisted of three rows of closely collected Indian 
huts made of bark, extending for a distance of somewhat 
more than eighty yards. The road to North Cos Cob now 
runs through the site of this village. On the plain, east of 
the Indian village and between it and Strickland Brook, the 
wood and underbrush had been cleared away and the 
grotmd prepared for raising com. On the banks of this 
brook the Indians drew up their canoes after a fishing excur- 
sion upon the Mianus River or the Long Island Sound. 
To the north, far away for miles, extended the Green Moun- 
tains, abounding in game, which the Indians hunted for a 
subsistence. To the southwest lay an extended swamp, a 
part of which still exists, which afforded a safe retreat to 
the inhabitants when attacked by their enemies. North- 
east from this Indian village, about a mile north of the 
present settlement of Steep Hollow (now called North 
Mianus), was an Indian fort, known to them as Betuck- 
quapock, to which they could retire when any danger 
approached from across the sound. 

Petuquapaen and Miossehassaky territories were nearly 
equal in extent, together forming Sioascock. Over this 
territory and Poningoe, which was on the west side of the 
Byram River, Ponus was the ruUng sachem, which were 
called Siwanoys. On the northwest of them were the 
Weeckquesqueecks, friends of the Siwanoys, both belonging 
to the great tribe of Mohegans, who were possessed of a 
great part of Quinnehtukqut (Connecticut), which, ac- 
cording to the Indian interpretation thereof, means "the 
long river." 

Before the discovery and settlement of this part of the 



Indian Occupancy 3 

country by the Etiropeans, this was one of the most thickly 
inhabited sections of the whole region. Those living regu- 
larly at Petuquapaen were estimated at between three 
hundred and five himdred warriors. This number was 
increased afterwards to more than one thousand, when 
others were driven by the Dutch from their customary 
abodes near New Amsterdam. This village was afterwards, 
in 1644, annihilated by the combined forces of the Dutch 
and English, an accotmt of which is given later. 



CHAPTER II. 

FIRST SETTLERS — BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN GREENWICH 
AND STAMFORD — SUBMISSION TO THE JURISDICTION OF 
THE DUTCH. 

The historical accounts connected with the discovery of 
America, the exploration of Long Island Sound and settle- 
ment at New Amsterdam by the Dutch, the settlements of 
the English at Plymouth and Boston, and the French in 
Canada, are so familiar to everybody that it will not be 
necessary to repeat them. Suffice it to say that the first 
English settlement in the Colony of Connecticut was made 
at Windsor in October, 1633, by a company of planters from 
Plymouth, which was followed by others from the Massa- 
chusetts Colony, The charter of the Colony of Connecticut, 
which included the New Haven Colony, was granted on 
the thirtieth day of May, 1662, by Charles II, and it was 
accepted by the New Haven Colony in 1665. 

The territory now embraced in the State of Connecticut, 
as well as the eastern part of Long Island, was first explored 
by the Dutch from New Amsterdam, who laid claim to it 
before 1620; but no settlement was made within its boun- 
daries until the eighth day of June, 1633, when the first 
settlement was made at Dutch Point, Hartford, which was 
followed by settlements at Windsor, Wethersfield, Saybrook, 
and Hartford. Settlements were also made at about the 
same time by the English at Windsor, Wethersfield, and 
Hartford. Many disputes arose between the Dutch and 
English settlers, which at one time threatened a resort to 

4 



First Settlers 5 

arms, but were amicably settled, and the Dutch and Eng- 
lish afterwards joined their forces in fighting the Indians. 
The first settlement of the Town of Greenwich was made 
on the eighteenth day of July, 1640, when Captain Daniel 
Patrick and Robert Peaks, formerly of Watertown, Massa- 
chusetts, as agents for the New Haven Colony, landed at 
Greenwich Point, which the Indians called "Monakewego," 
and purchased from them lands lying between the Asamuck 
and the Patomuck rivers, as described by the following 
deed. (Town records) : 

Wee Amogerone and Owenoke, Sachems of Asamuck, 
and Rammatthone, Nawhorone, Sachems of Patomuck, 
have sould unto Robert Peaks and Daniell Patricke all 
theire rights and interests in all ye severall lands betwene 
Asamuck River and Patomuck, which Patomuck is a littel 
river which divideth ye bounds betwene Capt. Turner's 
Perchase and this, except ye neck by ye Indians called Mona- 
kewego, by us Elizabeth Neck, which neck is ye peticaler per- 
chace of Elizabeth Peaks, ye sd Robt Peaks his wife, to be 
hers and her heaires or assigns, forever, or else to be at ye 
disposal of ye aforementioned purchasers forever, to them 
and theire heaires, executors or assigns, and theye to enjoy 
all rivers, Islands, and ye severall naturall adjuncts of all ye 
forementioned places, neigther shall ye indians fish within a 
mille of aney english ware, nor invite nor permit aney other 
indians to sett down in ye forementioned lands ; in considera- 
tion of which lands ye forementioned purchasers are to give 
unto ye above named sachems twentie five coates, whereof 
theye have reserved eleven in part payment; to witness all 
which, theye have hereunto sett :heire hands this 18 July 
1640. 



Amogerone 

Nawhorone 7"^ — ( their 

Amsetthehone •T-^-K"'^ [ marks 

Keofferam 




6 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Witness : 

Robert A. Heusted, 

his 
Andrew ^ - ' Messenger, 

mark 



Rasobibitt 
Saponas 



Whonehom 
Akeroque 

Pauonohas 

Powiatoh 



J — (their marks) 



Keofferam hath sould all his right in ye above sd to 
Jeff ere Ferris. 
Witness : 

Richard Williams 
Angell Heusted. 

They immediately located on a portion of the property 
and proceeded to form a settlement. They were both 
noted personages in the early history of New England, and 
had been the pioneers in the settlement of many places and 
were ready to push out into the wilderness at any time when 
the steady habits of the Puritans threw too many restraints 
upon their conduct. Elizabeth Fones Feaks, the wife of 
Robert Feaks, was the widow of Henry Winthrop, son of 
Governor Winthrop. Captain Patrick and Mr. Feaks 
both died within a few years after their settlement in the 
town, and Mrs. Feaks afterwards married William Hallett. 

With these men there were also some Dutch and Eng- 
lish settlers, namely: 



Boundary Line between Greenwich and Stamford 7 

Everardus Bogardus, John Bowers, Jeffre Ferris, Angell 
Husted, Robert Husted, Andrew Messenger, Robert Wil- 
liams, John Winkelman. 

They commenced the construction of their houses, the 
clearing of their land, and attended to such other duties as 
were incimibent on the Uves of the early pioneers; having 
little to do with the neighboring settlements until forced 
into controversies, which required settlement. The first of 
which was a contention between Greenwich and Stamford, 
as to the dividing line between the two settlements. 

The Town of Stamford was settled in the spring of 1641, 
by a company of planters from Wethersfield, Connecticut, 
and in October of the same year a dispute arose between 
the two settlements as to the dividing line. Accordingly, 
on the second day of November, a meeting was held by the 
committees representing the two settlements, at which the 
following agreement defining the boundary line was executed: 

Wee, the underwritten, mutually agreed that the di- 
viding line betwene both our Plantations of Greenwich and 
Wetherfield Men's Plantation shall begin at Patommog 
Brook, where the path at present cuts, and run on in a 
straight Hne to ye west end of a line drawne from ye sides of 
Wetherfield Men's Plantation River, which runs by theire 
towne plot, to bee drawne on a due west point towards 
Greenwich bounds, a neat mile, and from ye west end of ye 
sd line to run due north up into ye contrie, about twenty 
miles. These lines to run on ye meridian compass. Nether 
will aney of us or shall aney for us object against this 
agreement upon ye account of ye Indians; although we 
shall at aney time hereafter conclude a mistake in respect of 
what each one bought, yett this to stand unalterable, with- 
out a mutual consent on both sides. To Testifie which, 
wee each for our townes have sett to our hands this 2nd 
Nov. 1641. 

Daniell Patrick, Andrew Warde, 

Robt. Fekes, Robert Coe, 

Richard Gildersleve. 

The first two of these men were the representatives of 



8 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

the settlement at Greenwich, and the remainder repre- 
sented the Stamford settlement. With the removal of this 
vexatious question the inhabitants of Greenwich expected 
to live in peace, but it was of short duration. 

The Dutch at New Amsterdam laid claim to the terri- 
tory of Connecticut as far east as the Connecticut River, 
and during the latter part of the year 1641, determined to 
bring that part of Connecticut under its jurisdiction. The 
governor of New Netherlands, Director Kieft, as he was 
called, met with but little success. The inhabitants of 
Greenwich, however, became convinced that they were on 
Dutch territory, gave in their adherence to the authorities 
at Fort Amsterdam, to whom they swore allegiance on the 
ninth day of April, 1642, on condition that they should be 
protected from the Indians, and enjoy, as a manor, the 
same privileges as patrons. The following is a translation 
of the agreement entered into when Greenwich submitted 
to the jurisdiction of the Dutch, as found in O'Callaghan's 
Documentary History of New York. 

Whereas we. Captain Daniel Patrick and Elizabeth 
Feake, duly authorized by her husband Robert Feake, now 
sick, have resided two years about five or six miles (Dutch) 
east of the Netherlands, subjects of the Lords States Gen- 
eral, who have protested against us, declaring that the said 
land lay within their limits, and that they should not suffer 
any person to usurp it against their lawful rights; and 
whereas, we have equally persisted in our course, during 
these two years, having been well assured that his Majesty 
King of England had pretended some right to this soil ; and 
whereas, we understand nothing thereof, and cannot longer 
presume to remain thus, on account both of the strifes of 
the English, the danger consequent thereon, and these 
treacherous and villainous Indians, of whom we have seen 
sorrowful examples enough. 

We therefore, betake ourselves under the protection of 
the Noble Lords States General, His Highness the Prince of 
Orange, and the West India Company, or their Governor- 
General of New Netherlands, promising, for the future to be 
faithful to them, as all honest subjects are bound to be. 



Submission to the Jurisdiction of the Dutch 9 

Whereunto we bind ourselves by solemn oath and sig- 
nature, provided we be protected against our enemies as 
much as possible, and enjoy henceforth the same privileges 
that all Patroons of New Netherlands have obtained agree- 
ably to the freedoms. 

In Fort Amsterdam, ninth day of April, 1642. 
Witness. 

Everardus Bogardus, Daniel Patrick. 

Johannes Winkelman. 

Greenwich, from that time, became a manor, and Cap- 
tain Daniel Patrick and Robert Peaks were patroons of the 
manor, with all the privileges of other patroons. The two 
witnesses to the foregoing agreement were residents of the 
manor; and it was, doubtless, in a great measure owing to 
their influence that the agreement was executed, and also to 
the fact that Captain Daniel Patrick had married Annetje 
Van Beyeren, a Dutchwoman from New Amsterdam. 



CHAPTER III. 

INDIAN TROUBLES — LEGEND OF LADDIN'S ROCK — BATTLE 
OF STRICKLAND PLAINS — CAPTAIN JOHN UNDERBILL — 
JURISDICTION OF THE DUTCH. 

For three or four years after the first settlement of 
Greenwich in 1640, its inhabitants had much trouble with 
their Indian neighbors, the indirect cause being rum, "cussed 
fire-water," as the Indians called it, bought of the Dutch at 
New Amsterdam. The primary cause, however, was the 
dishonest, cruel, and revengeful treatment they received at 
the hands of the Dutch at New Netherlands, the governor of 
which was William Kieft. He was the successor of Wouter 
Von Twiller, the good natured Dutchman, who had by a 
kind and hospitable manner in a great measure conciliated 
the fierce Indians about the settlements. But with the 
new governor came a change. He was cruel-minded and 
revengeful in the extreme. Having selected some half-a- 
dozen advisers, all congenial spirits, he brought the col- 
ony, and all connected with it, into the greatest trouble, 
by the extreme severity which he exercised toward the 
natives. 

The Dutch traders, before bargaining with the natives 
for furs, so befuddled the owners of them with rum as to get 
valuable articles for little or no consideration, and not in- 
frequently having made their victim well drunken, stole his 
richest furs. An incident is related of how an Indian, after 
having been made very drunk by some Dutch traders and 
then stripped by them of a valuable dress of beaver skins, 



Indian Troubles ii 

upon recovering from his stupor revenged himself by killing 
two Dutchmen and then fleeing to a distant tribe. 

The Indians, during their visits to the Dutch and Eng- 
lish settlements, after having been freely supplied with "fire- 
water," gave full display of their roguish inclinations, and 
were never scrupulous in their bargains, frequently taking 
goods without stopping to pay for them, and in many in- 
stances they robbed and miu-dered the inhabitants. Return- 
ing to their own coimtry they there, with a feeling of safety, 
often boasted of their deeds, and these boasts were duly 
reported to the governor by those straggling settlers who 
chanced to hear of them. 

Before the arrival of Governor Kieft, and as early as 1626, 
an aged Indian was murdered and his furs stolen by a com- 
pany of traders to whom he had offered his skins for sale. 
They secreted the body, not observing, however, his little 
nephew, who, hidden among the bushes, had witnessed in 
silence the bloody deed, and secretly vowed vengeance 
against the murderers of his uncle. He was one of the tribe 
of Weeckquesqueecks, Uving northwest of Mamaroneck, 
New York. When a fiill grown Indian, still bent on his 
purpose, he watched anxiously the faces of the traders that 
he might discern the countenances of those upon whom he 
hoped for vengeance. As a result of his constant search he 
fell in with one whom he recognized — one Claes Comeliz 
Smitz, now become an old man. On him he revenged his 
uncle's death by a like punishment, and then fled, A 
prompt demand was made on his tribe for the murderer. 
It replied that he had escaped to Sioascock, and that they 
could not give him up. Demand after demand brought but 
the same reply. 

The governor now resolved to pimish the whole tribe for 
the crime of the one who had escaped, and two distinct ex- 
peditions were planned against the Indians: one against 
the tribe to which the Indian belonged, on the east bank of 
the Hudson River, and the other against the Petuquapaen 
at Cos Cob, whither he was supposed to have fled. Both of 



12 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

these expeditions were, however, delayed for a considerable 
time by a difficulty which arose between Governor Kieft 
and his advisers. Such was the impatience and haste of the 
former, that the latter refused to comply with all his requi- 
sitions, and the expedition as then planned against the 
Petuquapaen was never carried out, owing partly to this 
delay, but more especially to the failure which attended the 
other expedition. The latter Governor Kieft undertook 
on his own authority, and ordered Ensign Van Dyck to 
muster and equip eighty men and immediately proceed 
against the Indians and inflict upon them summary punish- 
ment. The governor felt sure of the complete success of 
this expedition, as Ensign Hendrick Van Dyck had been in 
the service of the colony for years, and was well trained in 
Indian warfare. To make success still more certain, a 
trusty scout had been employed to conduct the party. 
They moved forward in the early evening of a dark and 
cloudy night, in March, 1642. An injudicious halt was 
made by Ensign Van Dyck, during which the darkness 
came on so thick and fast that the scout was quite unable to 
point out the way. The commander, thus disappointed and 
angry at his own delay, led his force back to New Amster- 
dam, disheartened at not having seen a single Indian. 

Soon after, some traders from Staten Island came up the 
bay to trade with the Indians, and barter rum for furs. 
Having treated one until they had made him well drunken, 
they robbed him of all his furs, and left him in a helpless 
condition. Afterwards, becoming sober and realizing the 
treatment to which he had been subjected, the enraged 
Indian swore vengeance against the first "Swannekin," 
whom he should meet; and true to his oath, he killed one 
Dutchman and an Englishman, whom he chanced to meet. 
The murderer fled to the Tankitekes, a tribe of which 
Paeham, who was friendly to the Dutch, was sachem, and 
who knew full well that cruel measures were now likely to be 
adopted against the Indians. He therefore expostulated 
with the Dutch for selling to the Indians the "cussed fire- 



Indian Troubles 13 

water," laying to its charge all their troubles, and claiming 
that the Indians had been more wronged than the traders. 
Governor Kieft, however, turned a deaf ear to all their en- 
treaties and was fully bent on their destruction. 

The next winter, early in the year 1643, the Mohawks 
fell upon two of the Hudson River tribes, and after kilHng 
their warriors, scattered the remnant in utter destitution to 
find food and shelter from the piercing cold among the Dutch 
at New Amsterdam and in its vicinity. The time for a 
civilized revenge had now come, and at the instigation of 
Governor Kieft, with the sanction of his counsellors, more 
than a hundred of these helpless fugitives were sent from 
their quiet sleep on earth to the spirit world of their race by 
a blow from the Dutch soldiers, so sudden that they could 
not even beg for life. This massacre was conducted by 
the governor so secretly and with so much strategy that the 
Indians for a long time laid the cold-blooded deed to the 
Mohawks. Many of the Dutch, even, were so deceived. 
After some days, however, during which time the Mohawks 
had departed, the truth became evident. Then Indian 
blood was stirred. Savage vengeance awoke. With almost 
electric despatch, Indian warrior pledged to Indian warrior, 
and clan to clan, the direst vengeance on their foe. 
'"More than fifteen hundred warriors," according to De 
Forest, raUied from the confederacy of eleven clans, to 
constitute this avenging army. "A fierce war blazed 
wherever a Dutch settlement was to be found; on Long 
Island and on Manhattan, along the Connecticut and along 
the Hudson." From Manhattan to Stamford the coast 
was desolated, Dutch and English alike atoning to the in- 
exorable spirit of Indian revenge for the needless injuries 
that had been heaped upon the Indian race. 

Ann Hutchinson was among the victims of these Indian 
atrocities. Says De Forest, "until the last moment the 
Indians came to the house in their usual friendly manner; 
then the hatchet fell, and the ill-fated woman perished, with 

I See Huntington's History of Stamford, Conn. 



14 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

seventeen others in the massacre. To close the scene, the 
horses and cattle were driven into the bams, the bams were 
set on fire, and the helpless animals were roasted to death in 
the flames." 

Captain Daniel Patrick and the Dutch settlers in Green- 
wich had excited the wrath of the restless and brave Mayn 
Mayano, sachem of the Petuquapaen tribe at Cos Cob, who 
attacked Captain Patrick and two Dutchmen single handed. 
And although they were armed, Mayn Mayano had killed 
one and felled the other to the ground with his tomahawk, 
before Captain Patrick, the survivor, could shoot him dead. 
The daring of this fallen sachem had made the extermination 
of his tribe a necessity to the safety of the settlers. 

The legend of Laddin's Rock is told in many different 
ways, and perhaps it might be well to digress here and 
relate it. 

A rough old Dutchman named Cornelius Labden was 
riding away from the settlement in Greenwich, Old Town 
(now Soimd Beach), on horseback, when he discovered that 
he was pursued by three Indians on foot. They could pass 
more nimbly through the forest than he, and unless he 
could free himself by some desperate attempt, he weU knew 
the destruction that awaited him. In this strait he be- 
thought him of that steep precipice which now bears the 
name of Laddin's Rock, and resolved rather to die by 
plunging down its depths than by the torturing hand of the 
red man. Just as his pursuers were about overtaking him, 
he dashed over the steep, and they, too eager on their pur- 
suit, went headlong after him. Of the whole mass of 
mangled flesh, Labden only lived to tell the story, and that 
with his two legs broken. This rock still presents much of 
its old appearance, and is visited to this day by many. 

The legend, as it appeared in the Stamford Advocate in 
1854, under the initials C. L. B., is as follows: 

Soon after the settlement of New York by the Dutch, 
a few English families emigrated to the eastern part of Green- 



Legend of Laddin's Rock 15 

wich, and began a settlement upon an eminence commanding 
an extensive view of Long Island Sound. The names of 
these families are now forgotten, with the exception of that of 
Laddin, who, with his wife and daughter, a lovely girl of six- 
teen summers, located himself a short distance, in an easterly 
direction, from the main settlement. The little hamlet for 
some time continued to enjoy the blessings of peace and 
security, but its grateful quietude was soon to be disturbed 
by its hostile neighbors, who were stimulated by the Dutch 
traders to deeds of violence and revenge against the English. 

While Laddin was one day occupied in his usual occu- 
pation of clearing and cultivating his farm, he was surprised 
at discovering the humble dwellings of his neighbors en- 
veloped in dense clouds of smoke. Knowing full well the 
merciless foes would next proceed to his own cottage, 
and would complete their fiendish work of devastation and 
slaughter, he hurried thither with the utmost speed, and 
prepared to defend it and his family to the last extremity. 
Scarcely had he barricaded the doors and loaded his trusty 
musket, when the savages with their passion whetted by the 
previous massacre, surrounded the house, yelling terrifically, 
and expecting to witness its speedy ruin with apparent de- 
light. But, stop! Laddin stands at the window with his 
trusty weapon; his resolute determination surprises them; 
they deliberate for a moment, then advances one of the 
fiercest warriors with lighted torch in hand; he approaches 
within a few feet of the house, and falls the victim of un- 
erring marksmanship. But they are not thus to be repulsed 
and deprived of their satisfaction, at beholding the hated 
pale faces writhing in the flames. At the word of command, 
on steps another and rolls back upon his former comrade 
with a heavy groan; another and another advances and 
shares the same fate; then with unearthly yells they rush 
upon the house en masse. They try to break down the well- 
barred doors, hoping to capture and consign the poor settlers 
to a more lingering torture, as vengeance for their fallen 
brethren. 

In this confusion, Laddin's wife and daughter begged him 
to leave them to the mercy of the Indians, and secure his own 
safety; he steadily refused, determined to meet death with 
them and for them; but by earnest entreaties and solemn 
assurances that life without him would be worse than death, 
he is at length moved to make the attempt, with faint hopes 
that the foe would have some respect for their sex and spare 



i6 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

them. The front door begins to open — all rush to enter, and 
thus the back door is left unguarded. Now is the time; 
the heroic wife and daughter brace the door against the 
savages, while with extreme reluctance the despairing man 
softly makes his escape in the rear. Scarcely has he done 
this, when the door gives way; his beloved wife and 
daughter are dragged from the house by the hair, toma- 
hawked and scalped before his eyes. Assistance to them 
was impossible. He mounts his horse, which he had con- 
cealed a short distance off, under a thick copse of alder 
bushes. He knows not whither to flee ; death is before and 
behind him; the savages behold him, and pursue. With 
despair stamped on his manly countenance, he suddenly 
turns his horse's head toward the well-known precipice, re- 
solved not to fall into the hands of inhuman victors. On 
came his pursuers, and reached the summit of the barren 
rock, to hear him cry out with a voice of thunder — "Come 
on, ye foul fiends, I go to join your victims." A crash — and 
all is hushed. The rider and his faithful steed shall here 
mingle their dust together. 

'The settlers of Greenwich being unable to protect 
themselves from the attacks of the Indians, Captain Daniel 
Patrick, as Patroon of the Manor of Greenwich, called on 
Governor Kieft for help, who determined to exterminate the 
Indians in this vicinity. Accordingly, in the fall of 1643 an 
expedition of Dutch and English, consisting of one hundred 
and twenty men under the command of General La Mon- 
tague, was sent hither. The force landed in the evening 
from three boats at Greenwich, Old Town (now Sound 
Beach), marched the entire night, but could not find the 
Indians, either because Captain Patrick had given them 
warning, or had himself misdirected them. Retreat to their 
boats was made through the Stamford settlement, and on 
going through that town they found Captain Patrick at the 
house of Captain John Underhill. The soldiers charged 
Captain Patrick with deceit and treachery, and that he had 
purposely misled them. To resent this. Captain Patrick, 
who had hitherto remained silent, spat in the Dutchman's 

' See O'Callaghan's Documentary History of New York. 



Indian Troubles 17 

face and turned to walk away. The other in turn drew a 
pistol and fired a ball through his head. For this homicide 
the soldier was arraigned, but never punished. Thus died 
Captain Daniel Patrick, the first settler and leading man 
of Greenwich. He left a wife and one son. His wife's 
name before marriage was Annetje Van Beyeren. 

Some of the settlers at Stamford offered to conduct the 
forces to the place where some Indians were, whereupon four 
scouts were sent in divers directions to discover them. On 
their return, they reported that the Indians had been given 
some notice of the approach of the troops, but had not been 
given any specific details. Thereupon twenty of the bravest 
of the men were at once detailed to proceed to the nearest 
Indian village with great diligence. They made the march 
and killed about eighteen or twenty Indians, captured an old 
man, two women, and some children. The old Indian pro- 
mised to lead the troops to Weeckquesqueecks. Accordingly 
sixty-five men were despatched under the command of Lieu- 
tenant Baxter and Lieutenant Pieter Cock to this village, but 
on arrival found it deserted. After marching eight or nine 
miles further, they discovered nothing but some huts, which 
they could not surprise, as their approach had been dis- 
covered. They then returned, having killed only one or two 
Indians, taken some women and children prisoners, and 
burned some com. Meanwhile Governor Kieft had been 
advised that Pennewitz, sachem of the Canarsie tribe on 
Long Island, one of the oldest and most experienced Indians 
in the country, and who, in the first conspiracy, had given 
the most dangerous counsel, namely, that the Indians should 
wait and not attack the Dutch until all suspicion had been 
removed, and then divide themselves equally through the 
houses of the christians and slaughter them all in one night, 
was secretly waging war against the Dutch with his tribe, 
who had killed some settlers and set fire to their houses. It 
was, therefore, resolved to send this force of one hundred and 
twenty men; the English under Captain John Underhill of 
Stamford, who had volunteered his services to the Dutch; 



i8 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

the Dutch iinder Lieutenant Pieter Cock, and the entire ex- 
pedition under the command of General La Montagne. It 
proceeded in boats to Cow Bay, Long Island, marched 
toward Hempstead (where there was an English colony 
dependent upon the Dutch). The troops were then divided 
into two divisions. Captain Underhill with fourteen Eng- 
lishmen was sent to the smallest Indian village and eighty 
men were sent to the largest village, called Mespath, which 
resulted in the killing of one hundred and twenty Indians. 
One Dutchman was left on the field and three were wounded. 
The troops then returned to New Amsterdam. 

Governor Kieft thereupon despatched Captain Under- 
hill to Stamford to get some information in regard to the 
Indians in this vicinity. He reported verbally to the gov- 
ernor that the Indians were again gathering about Greenwich 
and that there were five hiindred warriors at Petuquapaen. 
Accordingly, in February, 1644, an expedition of one hun- 
dred and thirty men, consisting of Dutch and English under 
the command of Captain Underhill and Ensign Hendrick 
Van Dyck, was embarked at Fort Amsterdam for Green- 
wich. It landed at Greenwich, Old Town (now Sound 
Beach), where it was obhged to pass the night by reason of a 
great snow-storm. In the morning the troops marched in a 
northwesterly direction over stony hills, and in the evening, 
about eight o'clock, came within a mile of the Indian village, 
after having crossed two rivers, one two hundred feet wide 
and three feet deep. Inasmuch as it was too early to make 
an attack, it was determined to remain there until about ten 
o'clock. The order was given as to the mode to be observed 
in making the attack. The hour having arrived they 
marched forward toward the village, which consisted of three 
rows of huts set up in street fashion, each eighty paces long, 
situated in a low recess of the mountain, affording complete 
shelter from the northwest wind. This village was located 
on the west side of Strickland Brook, a short distance north 
of the mill pond at Cos Cob, and the road to North Cos Cob 
now runs through its site. The moon was then at the full 




INDIAN VILLAGE OF PETUOUAPAEN, 
Burned by the combined English and Dutch forces, February, 1644. 



Battle of Strickland Plains 19 

and threw a strong light against the mountain so that many 
a winter's day was not brighter than that night was. 
The Indians were on the alert and prepared to meet their 
assailants, so the troops determined to charge and sur- 
round the village sword in hand. They deployed and 
advanced rapidly and in a short time one Dutchman was 
killed and twelve woimded. The Indians were also so hard 
pressed that it was impossible for one to escape, and in a 
brief space of time there were counted one hundred and 
eighty dead outside of the huts. Presently, none dare come 
forth, but kept within the huts discharging arrows through 
the holes. Captain Underhill, therefore, resolved to set the 
huts on fire, and the casting of a firebrand upon the row of 
dry bark huts and wigwams was but the work of a moment, 
and the whole village was soon in a blaze. Whereupon the 
Indians tried every means to escape, but not succeeding they 
cast themselves into the flames, preferring to perish by fire 
rather than by the sword, and among the mass of men, 
women, and children none were heard to cry out or scream. 
According to the reports of the Indians themselves the num- 
ber then destroyed exceeded five hiindred; some say, fully 
seven hundred, among whom were twenty-five Wappingers, 
all gathered together to celebrate one of their festivals, from 
which escaped no more than eight men in all, three of whom 
were severely wounded. After the fight was finished several 
fires were built in consequence of the great cold; the 
wounded, fifteen in number, cared for; and sentinels having 
been posted the troops bivouacked for the night. On the 
next day the troops started out much refreshed and in good 
order, arrived in Stamford in the evening, where they were 
received in a friendly manner and every comfort extended to 
them. In two days they reached Fort Amsterdam and a 
thanksgiving was proclaimed on their arrival for the exter- 
mination of the Siwanoys. 

This battle was equal to any ever fought in Connecticut, 
in the nimiber of those engaged in the fight, in the fierceness 
of the contest, and in the carnage and destruction made. 



20 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Those killed were buried in a large mound on the easterly- 
side of the present road, which was levelled off only a few 
years ago. The Indians in this part of the country never 
recovered from the blow. It is true that a few desperate 
ones hung about the settlements seeking revenge; but they 
soon went away, and the remainder lived peaceably with the 
settlers and continued to trade w4th them. 

Huntington's History of Stamford, Connecticut, contains a 
biographical sketch of Captain John Underbill in which it is 
stated that he was a descendant from an honorable family in 
Warwickshire, England; entered the English service and 
served during the wars with Spain, and this early military 
training fitted him for the brilliant achievements he attained 
while in command of the Colonial forces. 

He is found in 1630 in Boston, then a new settlement, 
enrolled among the pioneer founders of New England; and 
that he was deemed worthy of position among them is at- 
tested to by his appointment to responsible offices, civil and 
military. The "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company" 
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts bears testimony to 
his military standing and the General Court of Massachusetts 
honored him as its metropolitan deputy. He was soon 
found to be most serviceable in the field. The exposed 
colonists were perpetually harassed and endangered by wily 
and hostile Indians, and Captain Underbill was more than a 
match for them. So successful was he in his expeditions 
against them, that as early as 1632 he received a pension of 
thirty pounds, and from thenceforth he was one of New 
England's most reliable defenders against their most dreaded 
foe. He is next found as the governor of the new colony 
at Dover, which office he held but a short time. From 
thence he returned to England where he published his history 
of the Pequod War, entitled News from America, or a new 
and experimental Discovery of New England; C07itaining a 
true relation of warlike proceedings these two years past, with 
a figure of the fort, or palisado, by John Underhill, a com- 
mander in the wars there. 



Capt. John Underbill — ^Jurisdiction of the Dutch 21 

In 1639, he again appears in Boston, and in October, 1642, 
he had assigned to him at Stamford, Connecticut, a house- 
lot, eight acres, and a piece of woodland, and the following 
spring he was appointed a deputy to the General Court at 
New Haven. After the extermination of the Indians in this 
vicinity he removed to New Netherlands, and in 1660 he is 
found established at Oyster Bay, where he died in 1672. 
He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Elizabeth Fones 
Winthrop and Robert Peaks. 

'On the ninth day of March, 1648, the council then in 
session at New Amsterdam passed a resolution whereby it 
enjoined Elizabeth Peaks from alienating any part of her 
late husband's property; placed her children under the 
care of a curator at Greenwich, where she was permitted to 
reside on condition that she quit the bed and board of 
William Hallett, her paramour, who was sentenced to be 
banished for his adultery. 

In 1649 the settlers here had cause to complain of the 
treatment they were receiving from the inhabitants of Stam- 
ford, and therefore sent the following communication to 
Governor Stuyvesant, who was then in charge of affairs at 
New Amsterdam. 

Right Honorable: 

We the inhabitants of Greenwich doe make bould to 
present your honors with a few lins and to informe you with 
our state and condition as followeth: 

Our neyghbors of Standford hath allways desired and 
endeavored to depoppolate this plase of Greenwich and to 
leave it without inhabitants that so the prophit may redoune 
to themselves as might be proved by divers instances; and 
now they lay howld upon a new ocasion as we aprehend, for 
such an end Mr. Peke being returned agayn from old Eng- 
land ; they make use of his wekenes and sillines to wring the 
land out of Mr. Hallett's hands and they stand redy as we 
think to gayne a grant from your honor for such a thmg. 
But we hoope your honor will seriously consider before they 
drawe forth such a request from you; we cannot see that 

' See O'Callaghan's Documentary History of New York. 



22 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Mr. Feke has any right to it although he joined in the pur- 
ches, yet the former governor protested agaynst them and 
sent the vandrager [ensign] and souldiers and required them 
to submit to the government or avoyde the plase. Mr. Feke 
allways withstood it whereupon when the governor required 
their answer the captain and Mrs. Feke submitted to them ; 
she having full power of his estate; whereupon the gover- 
nor judging him unfite to dispose a plantation, gave the land 
to Mrs. Feke as her own for inheritance to dispose of as she 
plesed and she has disposed of the land hithertoe and has 
given out it to this day; this therefore, is our request to 
your honor to mayntayn Mr. Hallett's right agaynst them 
and in his right our's, we having our land from her. If your 
honor conceive Mr. Feke should be payd for the piirches 
Mr. Hallett is wiUing to be countable to him for it, . . . 
hous and that little land he improved Mr. Hallett will keep 
. . . eldest Sonne and will lay some more land to it ; as for 
Mr. Feke . . . together according to the council of New 
England and doe not . . . his own right, whos coimseU we 
have groimd to thinke according to . . . custom will tend to 
the subversion of this plase for it is Greenwich, which they 
thirst for. Nayther would they sett satisfied with that; 
might they obtain their desires; we question not but many 
things might be brought to your honor which will never be 
proved; but we rest upon your honor's wisdom and fayth- 
fullness, that you will regard none of them; they persuaded 
Mr. Feke allso to take all the state from Mrs. Hallett, as we 
heer; not withstanding he had by writing given her halfe; 
your honor has established Mr. Hallett heer and we hoope 
you will mayntayn his right. We have told you above what 
they long for and soe being assured your honor will doe more 
and beter than we can direct we rest. 
From Greenwich, September i8, 1649, New Stille. 
Yours in what we may . , , 

Robert Heusted, Thomas Sherwood, 
Richard Crab, John Coo [Coe]. 

The following year, 1650, the Dutch ceded to the New 
Haven Colony their claim to territory now within the boimds 
of the State of Connecticut. 



CHAPTER IV. 

GREENWICH UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE NEW HAVEN 

COLONY GREENWICH A PART OF STAMFORD — EARLY 

DEEDS JOHN MEAD — GREENWICH UNDER THE JURIS- 
DICTION OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT — INCOR- 
PORATION OF GREENWICH INTO A TOWN — EARLY TOWN 

MEETINGS PATRICK COMPROMISE — SETTLEMENT AT 

HORSENECK (BOROUGH OF GREENWICH). 

As has been before stated, the Dutch laid claim to Con- 
necticut as far east as the Connecticut River, and when the 
English made settlements within this territory at Windsor, 
Wethersfield, and Hartford in 1633, the Dutch, in order to 
recover it and remove the English settlers, threatened a re- 
sort to arms and sent an expedition up the Connecticut 
River for that purpose, but the dispute was afterwards ami- 
cably settled. By an agreement made at Hartford in 1650, 
between the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam and the 
English, the territory in question was surrendered to the 
New Haven Colony, and the boundary line was made as 
follows:^ to commence on Long Island on the westernmost 
part of Oyster Bay, and so in a straight and direct line to the 
sea; and upon the mainland a line to begin on the west side 
of Greenwich Bay and so run in a northerly line twenty 
miles up into the country, and after as it shall be agreed upon 
by the two governments, provided said line come not within 
ten miles of the Hudson River. In 1673 the western bound- 

» See Colonial Records of Connecticut. 

23 



24 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

ary line of Greenwich was made to commence at the mouth 
of the Byram River by an act of the Colonial Legislature. 

Robert Peaks, one of the original purchasers of Green- 
wich, Old Town (now Sound Beach), from the Indians, 
through ill health, becoming unable to attend to his usual 
business affairs as early as 1642, had duly authorized his 
wife, Elizabeth Peaks, to act in his stead, and it was she and 
Captain Daniel Patrick, the other original purchaser, who 
surrendered the town to the jurisdiction of the Dutch in 1642, 
although they bought it as agents for the New Haven Colony. 
After the death of Captain Patrick in the fall of 1643, the 
Dutch governor placed the Manor of Greenwich in charge of 
William Hallett, who remained in charge until he was ban- 
ished by the Council at New Amsterdam in 1648, after 
which Richard Crab seems to have been the leading citizen 
until the town formally submitted to the jurisdiction of the 
New Haven Colony in 1656. He was a freeman at Hart- 
ford in 1639, and one of the first settlers in Stamford in 
1641. 

Although Greenwich, by the terms of the agreement 
made at Hartford in 1650, between the Dutch governor of 
New Amsterdam and the English, became a part of the New 
Haven Colony, it must be borne in mind that it was con- 
sidered as part of the Town of Stamford, and it was in fact 
principally settled by people from Stamford, who exercised 
jurisdiction over it until it was formally declared a town by 
an act of the Colonial Legislature, passed in 1665. 

^In 1656, representations were made to the General 
Court at New Haven that the inhabitants of Greenwich 
lived in a disorderly and riotous manner, sold intoxicating 
liquors to the Indians, received and harbored servants who 
had fled from their masters, and joined persons unlawfully 
in marriage. The Colony of New Haven thereupon resolved 
to assert its jurisdiction over the town and bring its citizens 
to a more orderly manner of living, and sent letters to the 
settlers in Greenwich requesting them to submit to its au- 

' See Records of the New Haven Colony. 



Greenwich Part of Stamford 25 

thority. They returned an answer, refusing on the grounds 
that Greenwich was an independent state under letters 
patent from the King of England; that New Haven had 
no right to set up such a claim, and that they would never 
submit to its jurisdiction unless compelled to do so by 
Parliament. The General Court, however, determined to 
maintain its position, and called upon the citizens of 
Greenwich to produce the alleged letters patent, and on 
their failure to do so, or submit to the jurisdiction of the 
New Haven Colony warrants for the arrest of Richard 
Crab and some others of the most stubborn would be 
issued. Richard Crab and his followers, being unable to 
produce the alleged letters patent and not ready for martyr- 
dom, promptly yielded to the jurisdiction of the New 
Haven Colony, and on the sixth day of October, 1656, 
the inhabitants of Greenwich declared their submission to 
the jurisdiction of the New Haven Colony by executing the 
following agreement : 

At Greenwich ye 6th October 1656. Wee the inhabi- 
tants of Greenwich, whose names are underwritten, doe 
from this day forward freely yield ourselves, place and estate, 
to the government of Newhaven, subjecting ourselves to the 
order and dispose of that General Court, both in respect of 
relation and government, promising to yield due subjection 
unto the lawful authoritie and wholesome laws of the juris- 
diction aforesaid. 

Angell Husted, Thomas Steed well, Jonathan Reanolds, 
Lawranc Turner, Henry Accorley, Hanc Peterson, 
John Austin, Peter Ferris, Henry Nicholson, 

Richard Crab, Joseph Ferris, Jan, a Dutchman, 

commonly called 
Varllier. 

Greenwich was thereupon accepted by the New Haven 
Colony as a part of Stamford, and from the time of its sub- 
mission it was exempted from taxes for one year. The settle- 
ment and growth of the town thereafter progressed very 
rapidly. 



26 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

^ Richard Crab seems to have acquired the interest of 
Captain Daniel Patrick, and on the twenty-second day of 
February, 1658, he conveyed to Thomas Studwell a parcel 
of land consisting of three roods, more or less, lying between 
William Hubbard's land, the aforesaid Crab's house-lot, the 
highway boimding the front, and Angell Husted's land the 
rear. This parcel of land was afterwards, on the twenty- 
first day of December, 1661, conveyed to John Mead. 

On the twentieth day of September, 1659, William 
Hubbard purchased a parcel of land from John Coe (being 
part of the Peaks' interest), consisting of a house with half 
an acre of land, more or less, with the swamp adjoining 
thereunto, bounded easterly by the land of Richard Crab, 
southerly by lands of Angell Husted, and westerly by the 
highway. 

On the twenty- sixth day of October, 1660, John Mead 
made his first purchase of land in the Town of Greenwich 
from Richard Crab, as appears from the following deed 
found on the town records: 

These presents witnesseth an agreement made betwene 
Richerd Crab, of Grenwich, on ye one side, and John Mead, 
of Heamstead, on Long Island, on ye other side, viz. : Ye 
said Richerd Crab hath sould unto ye sd John Mead all his 
houses and Lands, yt sd Richerd Crab hath in Greenwich 
with all ye Apurtenances, Rights, & Privileges, & Con- 
veniences, yt Doth belong unto ye sd houses & Lands, or 
shall here after belong unto them, viz. : ye house yt Richerd 
Crab liveth in, ye house yt Thomas Studwell liveth in, with 
ye Bame yt is on ye side of ye hye waye ; also ye home lott yt 
ye house stands on, being bounded with a fence lying about 
them on ye northwest, against ye house lott; also Eightene 
Acres of Land in Elizabeth neck, more or less, being bounded 
by ye sea on ye east and southeast, and a fence on ye west, 
northwest, and ye north. 

Also ye Rig, with 5 acres of Meadow lying in it, more or 
less; ye rig being bounded by ye Sea on ye southeast, william 
low on ye east, and ye fence on ye northwest, & north ye hye 
waye & hethcut's & angell Heusteds on ye west ; also 3 acres 

' Minutes of Town Meetings. 



Early Deeds—John Mead— Greenwich a Town 2-] 

of meadow in ye long meadow, & i acre of meadow by Ferris, 
bounded by Jeffere Ferris land on ye southeast, and ye cove 
on ye west and northwest ; also 5 acres of meadow in myanos 
neck, all ye above spesiffied I do hereby acknoledge to 
have sould unto ye above sd John Mead, his heaires and 
asignes, fully and freely to be possest forever, and for ye 
quiet and full performance hereof, I have hereunto sub- 
scribed my hand, anno 1660, October 26 Daye. 

Richerd Crab. 
Adam Mott, ") ^^r^ 
Robt. Williams, }^^^"^^^^^- 

John Mead married Hannah, daughter of William Potter 
of Stamford. Her father afterwards owned Shippan Point, 
and through her he received a considerable amount of 
property. 

The following anecdote, which has been preserved by tra- 
dition, shows his character: One day when he was quite an 
old man, as he was going for his grist on horseback to the 
mill at Dumpling Pond, before he reached the Mianus River 
he overtook an old Quaker jogging slowly along loaded with a 
heavy budget. In a real spirit of kindness he offered to take 
the Quaker's load upon his horse, and thus give him a lift on 
his journey. "No," replied the Quaker, "thee don't get my 
bundle, for I can read men's thoughts. Thee wants to get 
my bundle, and then thee '11 run off. Thee don't get my 
bundle." "Very well," was the simple reply, and so they 
went slowly on together. At last they came to the brink of 
the Mianus River. Here the Quaker was really in trouble. 
How to cross a river, two or three feet deep, dry shod, was 
quite a puzzle. But he gladly accepted a second offer of 
assistance from the horseman. The bundle was mounted in 
front, John in the middle, and the Quaker behind. Arriving 
at the centre of the river, in pretending to adjust his stirrup, 
John caught the Quaker by the heel and gave him a gra- 
tuitous bath. Such treatment was too much, even for 
Quaker forbearance, and the victim, with his hands full of 
pebbles, would have taken summary vengeance, had not the 
other party threatened to put the bundle under a similar 



28 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

course of treatment. This threat, and the lecture following 
it, gradually cooled off the Quaker's anger. John informed 
him that all had been done for his good, to teach him a 
lesson, and the lecturer said he hoped the stranger would 
never again profess to read men's thoughts. "For," said he, 
"I asked you to ride, kindly in the first place, when you 
refused ; but at the second time of asking, I really intended 
to do as I have just done." So saying, and tossing the 
bundle back, he rode on, leaving his companion to apply 
the moral as he thought best. 

In 1670 John Mead was propounded for a freeman of 
Greenwich by the Assembly, and was a member of the 
Assembly in 1679, 1680, and 1686. 

The State of Connecticut was originally settled by two 
separate colonies, the Colony of Connecticut and the Colony 
of New Haven, the capital cities being Hartford and New 
Haven respectively. In 1665, these two colonies were 
united under one government called the Colony of Connect- 
icut, retaining, however, the two capital cities until May, 
1875, and at a session of the General Court held at Hartford 
on the second day of May, 1665, Greenwich and Stamford 
were declared to be under the government of the Colony of 
Connecticut. 

'At a session of the General Court held at Hartford on 
the eleventh day of May, 1665, "Upon ye motion and desire 
of ye people of Greenwich, this court doth declare that 
Greenwich shall be a township intire of itself, provided they 
procure and maintain an orthodox minister; and in the 
meantime and until that be effected they are to attend ye 
ministry at Stamford and to contribute proportionately 
with Stamford to ye maintenance of the ministry there." 
'The patent was confirmed and issued in 1697. 

According to the town records the first town meeting 
was held on the fifth day of February, 1664; whether this 
was new style or old style is not known, but it was probably 
after the petition was made for the incorporation of Green- 

' Colonial Records of Connecticut. ' See copy of patent post. 



Early Town Meetings, 1664- 1667 29 

wich into a town. At this meeting "the proprietors having 
taken into consideration what wee thought might make best 
for ye Comfortable Settlement of our towne in Refference to 
which wee do conclude to laye downe our Rites in common 
lands lying without fence, menn's particular allotment 
exempted. Wee do agree and conclude that our Rites as 
above specified are now to bee Settled upon all inhabitants 
that now are or shall hereafter bee added unto us, that they 
shall bee admitted unto all our lands as aforesd with our- 
selves and as ourselves by a Rule of proportion according to 
what each man's estate shall bee visable, upon these con- 
siderations that they with us shall constantly endeavor to 
maintaine and too uphold the ministre amongst us. 
Secondly yt they with us shall maintaine and uphold, 
strengthen and confirme ye Privileges of ye town. The 
Proprietors are as followeth: Jeff re Ferris, Senre; Joshua 
Knapp, Senre; Joseph Ferris; Jonathan Reynolds; Angell 
Heusted, John Mead, Senre; John Hobbe." 

The following year it was decided " that none shall bee 
admitted to bee an inhabitant, but only such who shall 
bringe under the hand of ministers and Magistrates, or 
selectmen of the place, from where they or hee come a Ser- 
teficate to testifie of their orderly life and conversation, and 
not untill then to be admitted inhabitants, excepting such 
who may bee well known to ye towne 's good satisfaction 
without a Serteficate; also that ye minister of ye place is to 
have his Hbertie of vout in order to ye receiving in of any 
inhabitant into ye place." 

In 1667 a schoolhouse was estabHshed, and on the four- 
teenth day of October it was " agreed uppon and voted that 
the scoolmaster's sum for teaching scoole must be payd ac- 
cording to ye number of scoullars that went to scoole." The 
town records do not show where the schoolhouse was situ- 
ated at Greenwich, Old Town (now Sound Beach), but it 
was probably on the Long Island Sound side of the point, 
and the school, thus early established, shows that Green- 
wich, then as well as now, properly appreciates the 



30 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

advantages of a good education and the facilities for 
obtaining it. 

In the year 1669, Daniel Patrick, the only son and heir of 
the original settler by that name, came hither from Flushing, 
Long Island, and opposed the doctrine of squatter sover- 
eignty, by asserting his claim to all the land which his father 
had owned here, but which had now passed to different 
hands. But as young Patrick, like his father, was of a 
roving disposition, a compromise was easily effected, and 
"all his right, title, and interest in any lands or estate in the 
settlement," were bought with a horse, saddle, and bridle, 
and fifty pounds, and a deed obtained from him on the four- 
teenth day of March, 1670, after which he left for parts 
unknown. 

The town meeting held on the sixth day of May, 1669, 
considered for the first time the advisability of making a 
settlement at Horseneck (Borough of Greenwich), and 
Jonathan Reynolds, Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood, Good- 
man Huestead, John Hobby, and John Mead were appointed 
to make a survey "of Horseneck and the lands thereabouts 
to find whether or no ther can bee a sutable encouragement 
in point of land and other consideration for the settlement of 
a township." On the ninth day of December, of the same 
year, the committee on the proposed Horseneck Plantation 
were further empowered "to see how farr convenient it is to 
exchange forty accres with Mr. Banks, and if these men do 
find it convenient, then to lay it out uppon ye exchange." 

The above coinmittee, owing to the ill health of Jona- 
than Reynolds, were unable to perform their duties as ex- 
peditiously as their fellow- townsmen wished, so a new 
committee was appointed, consisting of Sergeant Jonathan 
Lockwood, John Hobby, Joshua Knapp, John Reynolds, 
and Mr. HoUey' "to goe forth to take a survey of the afore- 
said land and to make report to ye towne how farr forth they 
find matters of encouragement for ye settlement of a town- 
ship and in case any three of ye first four men do goe forth, it 

' John Holley, the leading citizen of Stamford. 



Settlement at Horseneck 31 

shall be as effectual as the four, only Mr. Holley is to bee one 
if it can bee." On the sixth day of February, 1670, the new 
committee made their report, and a committee was there- 
upon appointed, consisting of Mr. Holley, Sergeant Jonathan 
Lockwood, John Mead, and Joseph Ferris "to lay out a 
township uppon the land lieing near Horseneck Brook to 
ye number of thirty lots, four accres to a home lot, if ye 
tract will bear it, and bee mindful for a peece of land for a 
common whear it is most meet." Title to the property was 
obtained from the Indians as soon as possible and the land 
laid out into home-lots. 

The landowners, at this time, in the Town of Greenwich 
were twenty-seven, and they were styled the "27 Pro- 
prietors of 1672," and their names as they appear on the 
town records, but alphabetically arranged, are as follows: 

/- Asten, John, Lockwood, Jonathan, 

Bowers, John, Marshall, John, 

Butler, Walter, Mead, John, 

Close, Thomas, Mead, Joseph, 

Ferris, James, Palmer, Ephraim, 

Ferris, Joseph, Palmer, John, 

/ Finch, Joseph, Peck, Jeremiah, 

Heusted, Angell, Peck, Samuel, 

- Hubbert, William, Ratleff, Wilham, 

Hubbe, John, Renalds, John, 

Jankens, Samuel, Renalds, Jonathan, 

Knapp, Joshua, Rundle, William, 

Lockwood, Gershom, Sherwood, Stephen, 
Smith, Daniel. 

The original Indian deed for the Horseneck Plantation 
is still in existence, and is dated the first day of February, 
1686, but was not recorded until 1701. It appears as 
follows on the town records: 

Witness these presents, yt whereas, wee to witt Kow- 
aconussa and Kouko, and Querrecqui and Peattun and Pakon- 
chero and Rumppanus, we do all owne and declare ourselves 
to be ye true proprietors of all ye land or lands which lyeth 



32 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

or yt is betweene Mianus River and Biram River and to run 
to New York line to mett yt line which is for ye deviding 
New York Collony bounds and Conectuct Collony bounds 
Respecting lands. Now wee ye proprietors of ye above sd 
lands as is above mentioned wee do all and each of us do 
freely acknowledge to have sould all our right, title and 
interest to ye above sd lands unto Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood, 
Sergt. John Bowers, John Renalds, Senir, John Marshall, 
Joseph Mead, Senir, John Hubbe, Senir, and John Mead, 
Senir, which are ye towne's committee to act and do what is 
don which is to be in ye Towne's Behalfe, and now wee ye 
above named to witt, Kowaconussa, Kouko, Querrecqui, 
Peattun, Pakohchero and Rumppanus, wee doe freely and 
firmly resigne up and pase over all our right, title and 
interest in ye above sd land or lands unto ye above sd 
Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood, Sergt. John Bowers, John Re- 
nalds, Senir, John Marshall, Joseph Mead, Senir, John Hubbe, 
Senir, and John Mead, Senir, for them and their executors, 
administrators and assigns Quietly to possess and enjoye as 
their own forever, promising to free ye sd sale from all former 
bargains, claims, mortgages or incumbrances of what nature 
or kinde soever, and wee also doe freely acknowledge yt for 
an in consideration of ye above sd land or lands, we have re- 
ceived full satisfaction in land to witt, planting land, the 
which land is fenced in at Cos Cob Neck ye lower point 
which is below ye Seller, ye quantitie of ye planting land is by 
estimation about thirtie acres, ye medow land is all excepted 
and excluded and ye above sd land to witt, ye planting land 
yt is fenced in at Cos Cob is to abid ours for our use during 
our lives and to returne to ye towne for ye towne to make use 
of and improve as their own propertie in reference to ye four 
pappooses, it is to be understood yt three of ye four are each 
of them tenn years olde and ye fourth pappoose is now a year 
olde and Pakekcho is ye mother of ye gerle which is tenn 
years olde and ye mother of ye second being a childe is a boye 
tenn years olde ye sd boye's mother's name is Oruns, and ye 
third being a boye tenn years olde his mother's name is 
Wetorrum and Kowakconnisso is gran mother, ye younge 
child is about a year olde a boye, and these four children as 
mentioned are ye four pappooses who are to enjoye ye above 
mentioned planting land during their lives and then at their 
decease or end of their lives ye land aforesaid is to bee as full 
satisfaction for ye land bought and sould as aforsd which is 
to be for ye use and beneffitt of Kowaconussa, Kouko, 



Indian Deed 33 

Querrecqui, Peattun, Pakohchero and Rumppanus during 
their lives and ye lives of ye children being in number four, 
and then to be returned to ye towne for their use and im- 
provement as their own propertie, ye towne to take pos- 
session and to be repossessed of ye aforesd land without 
molestation or aney disturbance and for ye true performance 
and making good ye premises . . . respecting what is here 
contained in every perticular yt is here mentioned, wee doe 
sett our hand as our now free act and deed in Greenwich. 
February ye 

I, 1686. ,. ,^ 

Witness Rumppanus, j j 



Thomas 
Close. 


Pakohchero, Jy^ 1 O7 > 




Kowaconussa, ^ ^rj.^^^ ^^^^^ 




Kouko, Q^ 




Querrecqui, y 
Peattun,^ ^ Y 



February ye 2, 1686. 

I, Wesskum, who am four score years old and upwards do 
testifie yt those Indians who have subscribed unto this Bill 
of Sale yt thaye were ye true proprietors of all ye land thaye 
sould as here mentioned on ye other side upon my sertaine 
knowledge of ye mater. _ , , 1. ^ 

Given under my hand to be ye Truth by me ye above sd 
Wesskum, who am a sagamore of Wappmg. 

Wesskum -— --v (His mark). 

We, Thomas Close and Henere Rich did heare two Indian 
sagamores say yt ye above named Indians who have sub- 
scribed yt thaye were ye true proprietors of all ye land thaye 



34 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

have sould according to what is here mentioned and ye above 
mentioned sagamores are very olde in aperance. 
This is the Truth. 

Given under our hands ye day and date above sd. 



Thomas Close, LO /tt- i \ 

HenereRich, ftx (His mark) 



Anno, 1 701, July, 31, Thomas Close and Henere Rich 
apered and gave oath unto ye above written to which they 
have subscribed before mee. 

Sam'll Peck, 

Justice of the Peace. 

This tract was afterwards divided between the above 
named proprietors, or their children, and such other persons 
as they chose to select, and on the twenty-seventh day of 
April, 1675, Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood, Joseph Ferris, 
Angell Husted, John Reynolds, John Mead, Joshua Knapp 
and Sergeant John Bowers "were appointed and fully em- 
powered to lay out all ye lands lying between the Mianus and 
Byram Rivers, as it lieth below the Westchester Path 
[Post Road], and in May of the same year Angell Husted 
was appointed to draw the Ipts respecting each man's pro- 
portion in ye above lands and Mr. Holley was chosen to 
manage and order ye business respecting the lots to be 
drawn." 

An Indian deed to that part of Greenwich, Old Town, 
not included in the first purchase, lying east of the Mianus 
River, is also recorded in the land records; as also an Indian 
deed to that part of the Town of Greenwich lying west of the 
Byram River, called the "Cauks Purchase." 



CHAPTER V. 

REV. ELIPHALET JONES, FIRST SETTLED MINISTER — WILLIAM 
grimes' will — WILLIAM GRIMES ' LAND — THE FIRST 

SOCIETY DISSENSION IN THE FIRST SOCIETY — THE 

TOWN DIVIDED INTO TWO ECCLESIASTICAL SOCIETIES — 
INCORPORATION OF THE SECOND SOCIETY. 

In order to comply with the requirements of the Colo- 
nial Legislature, which was that every town should maintain 
an orthodox minister (the Congregational Church was the 
authorized orthodox church of the Colony of Connecticut, 
and every freeman was obliged to contribute to its support 
unless specially exempted by some act of the Colonial Legis- 
lature), a call was extended by the town to the Rev. Eli- 
phalet Jones on the second day of February, 1669, with the 
understanding that if he should come and settle, "he is to have 
a parcel of land lying by Myanus River and a brook called 
Strickland Brook, and Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood, John 
Hobby and John Reynolds are hereby appointed to lay out 
said parcel of land." The call was accepted and the Rev. 
Mr. Jones remained settled as minister imtil 1672, when he 
was called to the church in Stamford, and in 1673 he was 
called to preach at Huntington, Long Island, where he died 
on the fifth day of June, 1731, leaving no children him 
surviving. 

Huntington, in the History of Stamford, states that the 
Rev. Eliphalet Jones was the son of the Rev. John and 
Susannah Jones of Concord. His father came to New 
England in 1635 and settled at Concord, from whence he 

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36 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

removed to Fairfield in 1644, where he died the same 
year, leaving six children, among whom was Eliphalet, 
bom Jan. 9, 1641, who entered Harvard College, but did 
not graduate. While settled here, he was a co-trustee 
with Joseph Mead and John Reynolds of the lands of 
William Grimes, late of Greenwich, Old Town (now 
Sound Beach), which were to be disposed of by them 
in such a way as they judged best for "inlarging of ye 
town of Greenwich," the details of which are herein fully 
set forth. After the Rev. Mr. Jones commenced his min- 
istry in Stamford, the parcels of land he was granted by 
this town were reconveyed to it on the tenth day of July, 

1673. 

Very little is known of an early settler by the name of 
William Grimes, except that he owned a tract of land con- 
sisting of something over thirty acres lying on the cove side 
of the point and west of the present trolley line, title to 
which was probably obtained by him before the incorpo- 
ration of the town in 1665. In 1670 he executed his will, and 
as far as can be ascertained from the records he died the 
same year. The will as it appears on the town records is as 
follows : 

William Grimes, of Greenwich, his will. These testifie 
that I Weeliam Grimes of this towne of Greenwich, being of 
perfect memory and understanding, but being very sick in 
body, do give all my lands to ye disposal of Joseph Mead, 
John Renolds and Eliphalet Jones, to bee disposed of by them 
in such a way as thaye shall judge meet for ye inlarging of ye 
towne of Greenwich, by accommodating such inhabitant or 
inhabitants as shall bee admitted into ye towne in an orderly 
way, provided they be such men as the aforesd Mead, Re- 
nolds and Jones shall judge desirable for the prompting of 
church and commonwealth. This my deed of gift shall 
stand good and firme at ye time of my dissease. 
Witness my hand this i8th July, 1670. 

William Grimes. 
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William Grimes' Will and Land 37 

In 1 69 1 the town received the following communication 
from the Rev. Eliphalet Jones in compliance with a request 
from it for information in regard to the disposal of the parcel 
of land formerly belonging to William Grimes. 

Inasmuch as the Townsmen (selectmen) of ye towne of 
Greenwich have sent unto me for information about ye dis- 
posal of yt persale of land and meadow, which was William 
Grimes, to ye disposal of Joseph Mead, John Renolds and 
myself, to be disposed of by them, and as they saw most ad- 
vantageous to ye good and proffit of ye towne of Greenwich ; 
so wee did all of us agree yt ye sd land should bee for ye use 
of a minister, as performing ye will, and it ought to have been 
so recorded and for as much as Joseph Mead is now deceased, 
and I myself being remote cannot act in my own person 
about it, I do constitute my friend Joseph Ferris of Green- 
wich, to act in my stead with John Renolds to see yt bee 
settled and recorded, as was firmly ordered. My mind is 
also that when at anytime the towne shall be without a 
minister, yt ye proffits of ye sd land shall go to helpe main- 
taine such as shall be imployed in teaching children to 

reade. 

Eliphalet Jones. 

Huntington, Apr, 22, 1691. 

This acknowledged by ye subscriber Eliphalet Jones, ye 

date aforesaid. 

John Arnold, 
Epenetus Platt. 

Theire Majesties 
Justices of ye Peace, 
County of Suffolk, on 
Long Island. 
Greenwich, 1694, March ye 7th. 

Wee, namely John Renolds and Joseph Ferris consemed 
in ye disposal of ye above so named Grimes' land as doth 
above appear, so for ourselves our heaires and sucksessors, 
now make this following disposal to stand good and Au- 
thentic for ever, namely, yt ye land and meadow yt was 
Grimes' be disposed of to ye towne for ye use of ye mmistne 
of personage land, and if no minister bee m ye place ye 
proffit of ye sd land and meadow be improved to help to 
maintain such as shall be imployed to teach children to read; 



38 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

and wee do jointly agree that this our disposal do stand good 
for ye method of ye improvement of ye towne. 
Witness our hands ye date above sd. 

John Renolds. 

Joseph Ferris. 

Title to Grimes' land thereby became vested in the Town 
of Greenwich in trust, as aforesaid, and it held the same until 
the town was divided into two Ecclesiastical Societies in 
1705, when it granted the same to the First Society "perpet- 
ually to ye use of ye ministrie," which was confirmed at the 
May Session of the General Assembly, 1705. The First 
Society held the title to the above premises until 1906, when 
it conveyed the same to George Archibald Macintosh by 
deed recorded on the twenty-eighth day of November, 
1906. 

On the twenty-second day of August, 1671, the town set 
apart a meadow, consisting of three acres, to be a parsonage 
meadow for the minister's use, lying near Grimes' land, and 
on the twenty-second day of January, 1672, Sergeant Jona- 
than Lockwood, Angell Husted, and Joshua Knapp were ap- 
pointed a committee "to act in ye towne' s behalf to treat and 
agree with Goodman Hobby for as much land as may be 
necessary and convenient for ye towne's use for to build a 
meeting house and for a common." 

In 1673, May 23, Rev. William Leverich was called to 
be a minister of the gospel. 'He graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Cambridge, England, in 1625; arrived in the ship 
James at Salem, Massachusetts, on the tenth day of Oc- 
tober, 1633; was pastor of the church at Sandwich, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1638; pastor at Huntington, Long Island, 1658 
to 1669; died at Newtown, Long Island, in 1692. 

On the tenth day of May, 1675, Sergeant John Bowers, 
Joseph Ferris, and John Reynolds were chosen to be a com- 
mittee to arrange for a speedy construction of a comfortable 
house for a minister. 

' See Thompson's History of Loyig Island, vol. i., p. 480. 



Dissension in the First Society 39 

In 1676, Rev. Mr. Bishop was called to preach, but did 
not accept. 

In 1678, March 22, Rev. Mr. Mather of Milford was 
called to preach, but did not accept. 

In 1678, September 3, Rev, Jeremiah Peck was called to 
preach and accepted. He was one of the "27 Proprietors of 
1672" of the Town of Greenwich, and in the fall of 1678 he 
was settled as minister of the First Society of Greenwich, and 
became the progenitor of the numerous Pecks still to be 
found in this vicinity. The first salary paid to the Rev. Mr. 
Peck was fifty pounds with firewood, or sixty pounds with- 
out. He chose the latter. A controversy arose in 1688, 
among the members of the society, upon the subject of in- 
fant baptism, and the Rev. Mr. Peck refused to baptise the 
children of non-professors, because he claimed to be unable 
to find any biblical command authorizing such a practice. 
He was for a time supported by a majority of the members of 
the Society. The matter, however, was brought before a 
town meeting held on the twenty-first day of May, 1688, and 
"ye major part of ye town did per vote desire Mr. Jeremiah 
Peck's continuance, and going on in ye work of ye ministrie 
amongst us." 

Protest. 

"We John Mead, Sen. and Jun., Nathaniel Howe, 
Francis Thome, Thomas Close, John Hubbe, Sen. and 
Jonathan Heusted, do enter our protest against ye above sd 
rendering this our reason, which is as followeth, that this 
caule is not according to ye rules of ye gospel Mr. Jeremiah 
Peck refusing to baptise our children. 

"Secondly, ye above sd John Mead's reasons are because 
sd Jeremiah Peck hath given him John Mead offence." 

In compHance with the request of a majority of the in- 
habitants, the Rev. Mr. Peck continued to preach for the 
ensuing year, but at the end of that time there were so many 
to whom he had "given offence," that he was not again asked 
to continue, and was dismissed in 1689, after having preached 



40 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

here eleven years. He is said to have removed to Water- 
bury, Connecticut. 

In 1 69 1, Rev. Abraham Pierson was called to preach and 
remained until 1694. 'His father, Rev. Abraham Pierson, 
graduated from the University of Cambridge, England, in 
1632; came to Boston in 1639; imited with those at Lynn, 
Massachusetts, who designed a settlement at Southampton, 
on Long Island, where he settled in 1640, and remained until 
1644, when he removed to Branford, Connecticut, and from 
thence to Newark, New Jersey, in 1666, where he died on the 
ninth day of August, 1678. His wife was a daughter of Rev. 
John Wheelwright. His son Abraham, was bom at Lynn, 
Massachusetts, in 1641 ; graduated from Harvard College in 
1668; first assisted his father at Newark, New Jersey; re- 
moved to Connecticut and settled in Greenwich in 1691 ; 
settled at Killingworth in 1694; appointed first Rector of 
Yale College in 1701, which position he filled until the time 
of his death on the fifth day of May, 1707. 

The town meeting on the ninth day of November, 1691, 
considered the necessity of a church and appointed the 
following building committee: John Mead, Sr., John Mead, 
Jr., John Hobby, Sr., Daniel Smith, Samuel Peck, and John 
Reynolds. At a subsequent meeting, held in 1694, it was 
decided that the meeting-house should be thirty- two feet long 
and twenty-six feet wide, and stand upon ye hill between 
the houses of Daniel Smith and Ephraim Palmer, which site 
was northwest of the old burying ground and southeast of 
the present church. 

In 1695, Dec. 25, a call was extended to the Rev. Solo- 
mon Treat to preach, which was accepted, and he remained 
until 1 697. The settlement at Horseneck (Borough of Green- 
wich) had increased so rapidly, that in the year 1696 the Rev. 
Mr. Treat preached there one Sabbath out of every three. 

In 1697, the Rev. Joseph Morgan was called and settled 
as minister. His salary was sixty pounds and firewood. 
It was increased in 1698 to sixty-five pounds. He then 

' See Thompson's History of Long Island, vol. i., p. 337. 



Dissension in the First Society 41 

preached one half the time at Greenwich, Old Town (now 
Sound Beach), and the other half at Horseneck (Borough of 
Greenwich), there being a steady increase of inhabitants at 
the latter place. In 1699 a sectional dispute arose between 
the inhabitants of Greenwich, Old Town (now Sound 
Beach), and those of Horseneck (Borough of Greenwich), 
and the Rev. Mr. Morgan took sides with the latter. The 
difficulty arose simply on the question of how much time 
should be devoted to the Horseneck people by the minister, 
they claiming one half and their brethren being only willing 
for them to have one third. The Horseneck people obtained 
the sympathy of the minister, and he lost the favor of the 
people on the east side of the Mianus River. The latter 
turned their anger upon the Rev. Mr. Morgan and circu- 
lated slanderous stories against him ; while the former became 
his firmer friends, and were ready on every occasion to de- 
fend him. 

It became evident, early in the year 1700, that should the 
Rev. Mr. Morgan choose to remain, a division would be the 
inevitable result of the difficulty, but he chose to resign 
rather than be the cause of bringing about a hopeless di- 
vision, and therefore tendered his resignation. It is as fol- 
lows on the town records: 



Greenwich, 1700, May 9. Mr. Joseph Morgan's reasons 
wherefore hee seeth cause to leave ye work of ye Preaching 
ye Gospel in Greenwich. 

istly. Because there is not unitie in ye place, viz., 
Greenwich and Horseneck, for the pubHque worship of God. 

2ndly. Because I do not see a probabilitie of there 
coming in Gospel order having given you warning long ago 
yt if thay were not promoters of unitie, I would desert ye 
towne. 

3rdly. Because I see not yt masters of families do laye 
restraint upon there families on ye Sabbath night, which is 
a hindrance of my work. i,- v, t 

4thly. Because yt ye aforesaid was one article which i 
declared to ye towne when I first came. t u- 1 • 

5thly. Because I see several good reasons yt I think it 



42 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

may bee ye most for ye towne's of Greenwich advantage 
for me to desert ye towne, which several perticulars I have 
publiquely declared at a towne meeting, 1700, May ye 6th. 
Then having expressed my mind to ye towne at which time 
I tendered heare reason to ye outside of aneything yt aney 
person should bring against it expressing my desire to remain 
with you, if it might bee for ye best. 

I not finding these things answered, I desire to leave ye 
towne, being loth in respect of thouse which will want me, 
offering to help . . . to ye outside of my skill to gitt 
another minister. 

Joseph Morgan. 

His resignation was accepted by the town, and later he 
became the first minister of the Second Society at Horse- 
neck (Borough of Greenwich). 

In 1700, July 23, Rev. Nathaniel Bowers of Rye was 
called, and settled as a minister shortly afterwards. He re- 
mained until 1708. 

On the seventeenth day of September, 1700, it was "in 
order to ye peace of ye situation and settlement of a min- 
ister ye major part of ye towne per vote do conclude that 
what lands are given for his settlement be layd out to him at 
Horseneck, the major part of ye inhabitants being at Horse- 
neck, that ye minister's place of residence be in Greenwich, 
old towne, and to preach one halfe of ye time in ye old towne 
and ye other halfe at Horseneck." In order to provide a 
suitable place for ye preaching of ye Gospel at Horseneck, it 
was, on the twentieth day of March, 1701, decided that "a 
meeting house be built at Horseneck, in all respects like the 
present meeting house, between John Reynolds and Angell 
Husted, Jr.," and the following committee for the new 
meeting-house were appointed: Thomas Close, Sr., Joshua 
Knapp, and Ebenezer Mead. 

^ In spite of all conciliatory measures, the troubles between 
the two settlements became so acute in 1705, that in order 
for ye peace of ye situation the town was divided into two ec- 

' See Original Documents, Ecclesiastical Records, vol. i., pp. 166, 173, 
194, 195, 196 in State Library and vol. ii., pp. 31-39. 



Divided into Two Ecclesiastical Societies 43 

clesiastical societies by the following agreement, which was 
confirmed by the Colonial Legislature at the May session, 
1705, and the incorporation of the Second Society duly au- 
thorized. 

Articles of Agreement.' 

Between ye inhabitants on ye East sid of Myanos River 
and ye Inhabitants of sd Greenwich on ye West sid of sd 
Myanos River. 

1st. That from the date of these presents there be 
liberty of calling, encouraging and settling the ministry of 
the gospel according to ye way of this Colony of Connec- 
ticut in two Societies on ye West side as well as on ye East 
sid of Myanos River. 

2nd. That for ye encouragement of ye ministers on 
either sid of sd river there be a rate raised annually by ye 
yearly list of ye towne of Greenwich, of which ye one halfe 
to be collected for ye minister of ye East sid and ye other 
halfe to be collected for ye West sid of Myanos River, and 
yt for the present ye annual rate amount to forescore 
pounds in provision pay. 

3rd. That all public charges consarning ye minister of 
ye gospel be equal, according to ye publick list. 

4th. That thirty acres of land at Horseneck be se- 
questrated, to be continually for ye use of ye ministrie, 
according to ye way of sd Connecticut Colony at Horseneck, 
in ye lieu of Grimes' land commonly called, which belongs 
perpetually to ye use of ye ministrie on ye East sid of 
Myanos River, or Greenwich, old towne. 

5th. That ye halfe of ye ordinary yearly salary for ye 
Minister in Greenwich be collected in proportion according 
to ye publick list of ye towne for ye minister residing at 
either place, whether Horseneck, or Greenwich, Old Towne, 
provided the other place be destitute of a minister. 

6th. That it be at ye liberty of each Society to make 
choice of their respective ministers. 

7th. That ye several percell of land on ye East sid of 
Myanos River, made choice of by Mr. Bowers and entered 
upon ye towne records, be absolutely given to ye mmister 
on ye east sid, provided he be ordained, or Dye in ye place 
of his Improvement in Greenwich, and that upon ye same 

' Original Document in vol. ii., Ecclesiastical Records, p. 24, State Library. 



44 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

provesion the lands on the west side of ye sd river offered 
unto but not accepted by sd Mr. Bowers be absolutely 
given and confirmed to ye minister of ye West sid. 

8th. That eney right in common lands in Greenwich 
Mr. Bowers hath granted to him, or may have granted to 
him, as large and full aright in sd common lands be granted 
to ye minister at Horseneck. 

9th, And finally, that it is ye desire and agreement of 
ye Inhabitants, both on ye east and also on ye west sid of 
Myanos River, that ye Articles be obliging and binding 
upon themselves and their heirs also after them. All ye 
above articles and primeses were published unto and voted 
by ye towne. Ye subscribers, committee of six Inhabitants 
of sd Greenwich, were appointed and ordered in ye name of 
ye towne to subscribe in confirmation of all and every ye 
above articles. 
Subscribed in presence of us : 

JONATH. SeLLECK, Sr., 

John Davenport, 
Samuel Hait, Sr., 
David Waterbury, 

On ye West sid of Myanos River : 

Ebenezer Mead, Timothy Knapp, 

Joshua Knapp, 

On ye East sid of Myanos River : 

Samuel Peck, Jonathan Reynolds, 

Robert Lockwood. 

Dated, March 5, 1705. 

Separate church organizations will be continued later. 

Up to 1703, all town meetings had been held in Green- 
wich, Old Town, but in that year it was voted that they 
should be held one half of the time at Horseneck. Also 
about this time so many settlers from Stamford and else- 
where had located in the western and northwestern parts of 
the town, that in 1704 the settlement had become so ex- 
tended that it was found impossible for one minister to at- 
tend to the wants of the inhabitants at both Horseneck and 
Greenwich, Old Town, therefore, in 1705 an agreement, by 



Divided into Two Ecclesiastical Societies 45 

and with the consent of the General Court of the Colony of 
Connecticut was made "betweene ye Inhabitants on ye 
East sid of Myanos River and ye Inhabitants of sd Green- 
wich on ye West sid of sd Myanos River, whereby the town 
was divided into two societies, as authorized by the General 
Court at the May session, 1705, the First Society being on 
"ye East sid of sd Myanos River," and the Second Society 
being on "ye West sid of sd Myanos River," as above set 
forth, thereby incorporating the Second Society. 



CHAPTER VI. 

BOUNDARY LINE — LIEUTENANT JONATHAN LOCKWOOD — LIST 
FOR 1688 — YE OLD TAVERN — GREENWICH PATENT — LIST 
FOR 1697 — REV. JOSEPH MORGAN, MILLER AT COS COB — 

COS COB MILL AND LANDING GRANTS FOR MILLS AT 

DUMPLING POND AND HORSENECK — WHARF AT HORSE- 
NECK — MIANUS MILL AND LANDING REV. JOHN JONES 

PROBATE COURT AT STAMFORD — LETTER OF REV. 

STEPHEN MUNSON — INCORPORATION OF THE STANWICH 
SOCIETY. 

At a General Court held at Hartford on the eighth day of 
May, 1673, it was granted that the bounds of Greenwich 
were as follows : 

^"That the line between Stamford and Greenwich at 
Tatomok Brook, where the lowermost path or road that 
now is to Greenwich cuts the said River and from thence to 
run a straight line to the west end of a line drawn from the 
falls of Stamford Mill River, which said line is to run a due 
west point toward Greenwich bounds, a meete mile; and 
from the west end of the said line to run due north to the 
present country road towards Rye; and from thence to run 
up into the country the same line as is between Norwalk and 
Stamford to the end of the bounds of the town." ii| 

^"That the bounds between Greenwich and Rye is to be 
from the mouth of Byram River, to run up the river one quar- 
ter of a mile above the great stone lying in the cross path by the 
said river, and from thence the said course upwards, between 
Stamford bounds and the colony line, is to be equally di- 

* Colonial Records of Connecticut. 

' See Collections of Connecticut Historical Society, vol. iv. for boundary 
dispute between New York and Connecticut. 

46 



Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood — List for 1688 47 

vided between them by a parallel line with Stamford and 
Norwalk, to the end of their boimds up in the country." 

The Greenwich bounds, as fixed by the General Court at 
Hartford on the eleventh day of May, 1671, ran to the north- 
ward twelve miles. The foregoing bounds were confirmed by 
the General Court on the fourteenth day of May, 1696. 

Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood, one of the leading and 
influential citizens, and commandant of the military forces 
of the town, died early in the year 1688, and the people met 
in town meeting and passed resolutions deploring the loss of 
so valuable a citizen. His brother, Gershom Lockwood, was 
chosen to fill his place on the various town committees. 

The town during the same year took into consideration 
the building of a gristmill on the Mianus River, and also a 
bridge across the Mianus River at Dumpling Pond, now 
North Mianus. This was the first bridge built in the Town 
of Greenwich, and was built by Gershom Lockwood and 
his brother William Lockwood. They received for the work, 
according to an agreement made just before the construc- 
tion of the bridge commenced, "whatever the town should 
see fit to give after the work was done." This was originally 
part of the King's Highway between New York and Boston, 
later the Post Road, and remained so for one htmdred years, 
until 1788, when the bridge at Mianus was rebuilt, and made 
into a cart and wagon bridge. The new arch bridge at 
Dumpling Pond, now known as North Mianus, was built 
in 1907, and it took the place of the bridge built in 1688. 

The number of landowners had now increased to fifty- 
two, and the inhabitants probably exceeded three hundred. 
The Hst of landowners on the twenty-first day of May, 1688, 
as shown on the town records is as follows: 

^ Austen, John, Ferris, John, 

^Banks, John, Ferris, Joseph, 

Bowers, John, Ferris, Peter, 

Butler, Walter, . Finch, Joseph, 

Close, Thomas, Howe, Nathaniel. 

Ferris, James, Hubbert, George, 



48 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Hubbert, William, St., Mead, Jonathan, 

Hubbert, William, Jr., Mead, Joseph, St., 

Hubby, John, Sr., Mead, Joseph, son of John 

Hubby, John, Jr., Mead, 

Hubby, Thomas, Mead, Joseph, son of Joseph 

Husted, Angell, St., Mead, 

Husted, Angell, Jr., Palmer, Ephraim, 

Husted, Jonathan, Palmer, James, 

Husted, Joseph, Palmer, Joseph, 

Knapp, Joseph, Peck, Caleb, 

Knapp, Joshua, Peck, Rev. Jeremiah, 

Lockwood, Gershom, Peck, Samuel, 

Lockwood, Jonathan, Renalds, John, Sr., 

Lockwood, Jonathan, Jr., Renalds, John, Jr., 

Lockwood, Robert, Renalds, Jonathan, 

Lyon, Thomas, Sr., Rich, Henery, 

Lyon, Thomas, Jr., Rundle, William, 

Marshall, John, Sr., Smith, Daniel, 

Mead, Ebenezer, Tash, John, 

Mead, John, Sr., Thorne, Francis, 

Mead, John, Jr., Vedito, Jasper. 

At a special town meeting holden on the twenty-ninth day 
of May, 1693, the death of John Mead, Jr., selectman, was an- 
nounced, and Lieutenant John Bowers was chosen in his place. 

At a town meeting legally warned and holden on the twen- 
ty-third day of December, 1696, "ye town by vote has made 
choice of Ebenezer Mead to keep a house of publick entertain- 
ment." The old tavern stood on the same site for nearly two 
hundred years, and has a history linked with Colonial and Re- 
volutionary wars. Many a thrilling episode occurred around 
its doors and within its quaint rooms. One night during Colo- 
nial days, when some of the frivolous young people of the 
colony were holding a dance in the house, a besieging party 
of Puritans broke open the front door and drove them out like 
cattle, and the merry-makers retired in confusion. Jumping 
out of windows helter-skelter, they scattered in every direction 
before the clubs and invectives of the sad-faced Puritans. It 
was here also during the early days of the French and Indian 
War that a company of young men were surprised by a 
press-gang, and several of them forced into the service. 



Old Taverns 49 

The old tavern was built as were dwellings of those days. 
The laths were split from oak with an axe and the nails were 
made by the village blacksmith. There was an immense 
wine closet in the cellar, where the choicest wines and liquors 
were kept that gladdened the hearts of ye travellers as well 
as ye soldiers. 

General Putnam here quaffed many a glass of Medford 
rum 'tis said, and frequently held conferences within its 
rooms with his fellow-officers of the Revolution. It was a 
common thing for the soldiers, tories, and cowboys, to ride 
up to the east window — there was no fence about the lot — 
and gracefully stoop while on their horses and catch the 
welcome cup hastily handed by ye genial landlord, who gave 
them ye latest news of ye doings of ye British hereabouts, 
in answer to their hurried questions. 

When Governor Tryon made his raid, February 26, 
1779, he made his quarters at this old tavern, then kept by 
Henry Mead, and while he was waiting for his dinner a patriot 
crept slyly into an adjoining orchard and fired a ball through 
the clapboards, which whistled close by Governor Tryon's 
head and struck the mantelpiece, from which it rebounded 
upon the floor. This startled Tryon so much that he, with- 
out waiting for his dinner, gave immediate orders for a retreat. 

An old Hessian sabre was found in the house about fifty 
years ago, and when it was torn down in July, 1886, to make 
room for the present Presbyterian Church, a number of reHcs 
were found. A board was disclosed near the big chimney, 
on which the name of Reuben Mead and the figures 1741 
were printed in charcoal, and under the fireplace was uncov- 
ered another board, on which was a score, drawn with char- 
coal, of apples, potatoes, and whiskey. No doubt it was the 
account of ye jolly landlord with some of his neighbors. An 
EngHsh penny, dated 1701, a piece of blue cloth with brass 
buttons, a pair of Indian moccasins, a long old-fashioned fire 
shovel, a big brass strainer, and some other things were also 
found. Relic hunters watched the old tavern as it fell, piece 
by piece, and took away shingles and nails. 



50 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

On the twenty-seventh day of September, 1700, Eb- 
enezer Mead "manifested his desire to lay down his keeping 
of a house of publick entertainment and Sergeant Robert 
Lockwood was chosen in his place." 

1696, Dec. 23. Ebenezer Mead chosen to keep 

a house of publick entertain- 
ment. 

1700, Sept. 7. Sergeant Robert Lockwood 

chosen in the place of Ebenezer 
Mead. 

1702, March 14. Henry Ritch chosen to keep a 

house of publick entertainment. 

1706, Dec. 30. Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood 

chosen to keep a house of publick 
entertainment. 

1 710, Feb. 27. Samuel Mead, chosen to keep a 

house of publick entertainment. 
Samuel Mills chosen to keep a 
house of publick entertainment 
and retail strong drinks. 
Still John Lockwood chosen to 
keep a house of publick enter- 
tainment and retail strong 
drinks. 

1 714, Feb. 2. Samuel Mills chosen to keep a 

house of publick entertainment. 
Widow Hannah Mead chosen to 
keep a house for entertainment 
of strangers and to sell strong 
drinks. 

1 7 14, Feb. 2. Still John Lockwood to keep a 

house for entertainment of 
strangers and to sell strong 
drinks. 

1 71 6, Dec. 20. Samuel Finch chosen to keep a 

house for entertainment of 
strangers. 

John Lyon, Jr., Jonathan Hobby, 
Samuel Mills and Widow Han- 
nah Mead to keep houses for 
entertainment of strangers and 
to sell strong drinks. 



Greenwich Patent 51 

The May session of the General Assembly held during 
the year 1716 passed an act requiring licenses for the retail 
of strong drink to be obtained from the County Court. The 
records of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, 
which are now at Bridgeport, show that licenses "to keep a 
public house of entertainment and retail strong drink in 
Greenwich" were granted in 1754 to: 

Joseph Banks, Israel Knapp, Samuel Lockwood, Jabez 
Mead, Messenger Palmer, Jabez Sherwood. 

In 1 76 1 to: Nehemiah Brown, John Bush, Jonathan 
Hobby, Jr., Isaac Holmes, Israel Knapp, Jonathan Lock- 
wood, Joseph Lockwood. 

The inhabitants of the town having maintained an or- 
thodox minister for upwards of eighteen years, and having 
recently completed a meeting-house, the General Assembly 
at the May session, 1697, in accordance with the resolution 
passed by it May, 1665, granted a patent to the Town of 
Greenwich of which the following is a copy of a certified 
copy: 

j Colony ] Greenwich Pattent. 

I Scale \ 

Whearas the Gennerall Court of Connecticut Colony 
have formerly Grannted unto the Proprieters Inhabitants of 
the Towne of Greenwich, all those Lands boath meadow 
swamp and upland within these abuttments, viz. Southerly 
upon the Sea, Easterly on a line beginning at Tototnock 
brook where the Lowermost path or Road & that now is to 
Stanford, att the said River of brooks, and from this to 
be run in a straight line to the west end of a Line drawne 
from the falls of Stanford Mill River, which said line is to 
runn a due West point towards Greenwich Bounds a meet 
Mile, and from the west end of the said Line, to run due 
North to the present Cuntry Roade towards Rye, and from 
thence to run up into the Cuntry the Same Line that is 
Between Norwalk and Stanford to the end of theis bounds 
Grannted, Northerly on the Willdemess, and Westerly on a 
line, beginning at the Mouth of Byram River, and runnmg 
up the River a Quarter of a Mile above the Create Stone 
Lying in the Cross path by the said River, and from thence 



52 Ye Historie of Ve Town of Greenwich 

continued upon a parrellell Line Limitting the Town of Rye, 
and beyond Rye continued till Twelve miles be ended, the 
said Lands Haveing been by purchass or otherwise Lawfully 
Obtayned of the Indian Native proprietors, and whearas the 
aforesaid proprieters Inhabitants of the Town of Greenwich, 
Have Humbly desired of the Govern 'r and Company 
Assembled in Court May 13d 1697 that they may have a 
pattent for the Confirmation of the Afoarsaid Lands so pur- 
chassed Graunted to them, and which they have stood 
seized and quietly possessed of, for many years, last past, 
without Interruption. Now for a more full Confirmation of 
the Afoars'd tract of land as it is butted and bounded afoar- 
said unto the present proprietors of the said Township of 
Greenwich in their possession and Injoyment of the premises, 
Know Yee that the said Gov'r and Company Assembled in 
Gennerall Court According to the Comission Graunted them 
by his Majesties Charter Have Given, Graunted and doe by 
theese presents Give, Graunt, Rattefie and Confeirme unto 
Angell Huisted, Senr; John Mead; Jn'o Hobbie; Jn'o Rey- 
nolds, Senr, ; James Ferriss, Senr.; Joseph Ferriss, Senr.; 
Samuell Peck; Jonathan Reynolds, Senr.; Thomas Close; 
Joshua Knapp; Joseph Mead, the Son of Jos. Mead; and the 
rest of the present proprieters of the Townshipp of Green- 
wich their Heirs Successors and Assignes for ever, the afoar- 
said parcell or Tract of Land, Butted & Bounded as Above 
said, Together with all the woods, Meadows, pastures, ponds, 
waters, Rivers, Islands, Fishings, Huntings, Fowlings, 
Mines, Mineralalls, Quarries and precious Stones upon or 
within the said Tract of Lands, and all other profits and 
Commodities thereunto belonging, or in any wayes is appur- 
teining, and doe also Graunt unto the Afoars'd Angell 
Huisted, Jn'o Mead, Jn'o Hobbie, Jn'o Reynolds, James 
Ferriss, Jos. Ferriss, Sam. Peck, Jon'th Reynolds, Thomas 
Close, Joshua Knapp, Jos. Mead, and the rest of the pro- 
prieters Inhabitants of Greenwich their Heirs Success and 
Assigns for ever. That the aforesaid Tract of Land Shall be 
for ever hereafter deemed reputed and bee an Intire Town- 
shipp of it selfe to have and to hold the said Tract of Land 
and premises with all and Singularr their Appurtenances 
with the privellidges and Immunityes Franchises & Heridi- 
taments herein Given and Granted unto the said Angell 
Huisted, Jn'o Mead, Jn'o Hobbie, Jn'o Reynolds, James 
Ferriss, Joseph Ferriss, Sam. Peck, Jon'tn Reynolds, Thomas 
Close, Joshua Knapp, Joseph Mead, and all other the pre- 



Greenwich Patent 53 

sent proprietors Inhabitants of Greenwich their Heirs and 
Successors, and to the Only proper use Benifitt and behoof e 
of them and every of them their Heirs Successors and As- 
signs for ever; According to the Tenour of his Majesties 
Mannor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in the 
Kingdom of England, in free and Comon Soceage, and not in 
Cappitte, nor by Knights Service, yielding therefor & paying 
to our Sovereigne Lord the King his Heirs and Successor, his 
dues According to Charter, Alwayse Provided that nothing 
herein contained Shall Extend to, or be Understood or 
taken, to Impeach or Prejudice any Right, Title, Interest, 
Claim, or demannds, which any person or persons hath, or 
have, or Claime to have, of into or out of any part of the said 
Townshipp, Scittuated within the Limitts above mentioned, 
according to the Laws and General Customs of this Colony, 
but that al and ever such person and persons may and shall 
have hold and Injoy the same in such manner as if theese 
presents had not been had or made. In Wittness whearof 
we have caused the seal of the Colony to be hereunto afhxed 
this Twentieth day of May Anno. Domini, idgy and in the 
9th year of the Reigne of our Sovereign Lord William the 3d 
of England, Scottaland, France and Ireland, King fider, de- 
fender &c. 
By order of the Governor. 

R. Treat, Governor. 
Eliezer Kimberly, Secry. 

The above written with that on the other side is a true 
coppy of the origenall being therewith Compared this 2id of 
May 1697, per me. \ 

State of Connecticut, / SS. 
Office of the Secretary, ) 

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of record m 
this ofifice. 



In Testimony whereof, I have 
hereunto set my hand, and 
afhxed the Seal of said State, 
at Hartford, this 12 th day of 
November A. d. 1907. 
Theodore Bodenwein, Secretary. 



54 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

The tax list of the Town of Greenwich for the year 1697 
was recorded in the Town Clerk's Office in 1705, and is as 
follows : 

£ 

Austen, John, 31 

Banks, John, 76 

Butler, Walter, 21 

Close, Joseph, 24 

Close, Thomas, Sr,, 80 

Close, Thomas, Jr., 26 

Ferris, Benjamin, 24 

Ferris, James, Sr,, 103 

Ferris, James, Jr., 40 

Ferris, John, 55 

Ferris, Joseph, 154 

Ferris, Moses, 22 

Finch, Joseph, Sr., 105 

Finch, Joseph, Jr., 29 

Hobby, Benjamin, 29 

Hobby, John, 94 

Hobby, Thomas 54 

Holmes, Stephen, 31 

Hubbart, William, 40 

Husted, Angell, Sr., 33 

Husted, Angell, Jr., 41 

Husted, John, 31 

Husted, Jonathan, 77 

Husted, Joseph, 54 

Husted, Samuel, 45 

Knapp, Benjamin, 31 

Knapp, Caleb, 39 

Knapp, Joseph, 73 

Knapp, Joshua, 54 

Knapp, Timothy, 47 

Lockwood, Gershom, Sr., 153 

Lockwood, Gershom, Jr., 47 

Lockwood, Joseph, 25 

Lockwood, Robert, 61 

Lyon, Samuel, 76 

Lyon, Thomas, 34 

Marshall, John, Sr., 165 

Marshall, John, Jr., 47 



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List for 1697 — Rev. Joseph Morgan 55 

Marshall, Thomas 34 o o. 

Mead, Benjamin, 37 o o. 

^Mead, Daniel, 42 o o. 

Mead, Ebenezer, 103 10 o. 

Mead, Elisha, .38 o o. 

Mead, Jonathan, 69 o o. 

Mead, Joseph, the tanner 45 10 o. 

Mead, Joseph 25 o o. 

Mead, Nathaniel, 30 o o. 

Mead, Ruth, 22 o o. 

Mead, Samuel, 87 10 o. 

Mead, Zachariah, 30 o o. 

Palmer, Joseph, 33 12 o. 

Palmer, William, 39 o o. 

Peck, Caleb, 28 o o. 

Peck, Samuel, 81 o o. 

Renals, Ebenezer, 30 o o. 

Renals, John, Sr 43 14 o. 

Renals, John, Jr., 51 5 o. 

Renals, John, 102 10 o. 

Renals, Jonathan, 47 5 o. 

Renals, Joseph, 45 o o. 

Rich, Henry, 39 10 o. 

Rundle, William, 60 10 o. 

Smith, Daniel, Sr., 161 o o. 

Studwell, Joseph, 18 o o. 

Studwell, Thomas, 30 o o. 

Whelpley, Jonathan, 45 o o. 



At a town meeting held on the ninth day of January, 
1704, Rev. Joseph Morgan was granted liberty to build a 
tide mill on Strickland Brook at Cos Cob and to have the 
use of the stream for that purpose, "and do therein oblige 
him, his heaires and assines, to grind for ye inhabitants of ye 
towne of Greenwich." 

"March ye 18, 1708, at a meeting of ye inhabitants on the 
west sid of Myanos River, they vote as foUoweth, yt Mr. 
Morgan should go and live by his mill for ye space of six 
years if he see occasion for it, and there keep a lad to tend his 
mill and oversee him therein himself, and continue in ye 
work of ye ministrie." 



56 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Protest. 

Caleb Knapp, Jonathan Hobby, Jonathan Reynolds, 
Benjamin Close, Henry Ritch, Jo. Husted, Stephen Holmes, 
Gershom Lockwood, James Ferris, Isaac Howe, and Jona- 
than Finch, "all do enter there protest against ye above sd 
act of Mr, Morgan's going to ye mill." 

It is evident that the Rev. Mr. Morgan spent more time 
running his mill than he did looking after the spiritual needs 
of his parishioners, because on the second day of July of the 
same year the inhabitants of Greenwich on the west side of 
the Mianus River, 

do vot yt Mr. Morgan shall be settled up in ye place, and 
whereas there is a difference in ye place, concerning ye place 
of Mr. Morgan's settlement, ye Inhabitants above sd by vot 
do jointly agree to leave it to ye ministers of this county fully 
to determine and to say where Mr. Morgan shall be settled, 
whether down at the mill, or up in ye place amongst us ; and 
to sett down contented with their judgment in settling Mr. 
Morgan according tcj gospel order, ye inhabitants above sd 
by vot do make choice of Ebenezer Mead and Caleb Knapp 
to go to ye ministers and give them ye reasons of ye difference 
about Mr. Morgan's living at his mill. 

The town minutes do not disclose what decision the 
ministers arrived at in regard to where the Rev. Mr. Morgan 
should be settled, but at another meeting held on the twenty- 
seventh day of August, it was voted as followeth: 

Yt Ebenezer Mead, Joshua Knapp and Caleb Knapp shall 
be there committee to see if Mr. Morgan provideth himself 
with a miller, and leaves his mills and betakes himself to ye 
work of ye ministrie, and to take from under Mr. Morgan's 
hand that he relinquisheth ye thirty acres of land, ye hous 
and hom lott, in case he deserts ye towne; and in case Mr. 
Morgan faileth in ye premises, then ye place is to be at there 
liberty, and above said committee to take care to provide ye 
place with another minister by ye last of September. 

On the seventeenth day of October of the same year, 
the Rev. Mr. Morgan desired "ye above sd committee to 



Cos Cob Mill and Landing 57 

meet and give him a full answer, which accordingly ye above 
sd committee met and answered that according to ye above 
sd towne act he was at his liberty and likewise they 
were at their liberty to provide ye place with another min- 
ister." Thus was the Rev. Mr. Morgan dismissed from the 
Second Society as its settled minister, although he may have 
afterwards preached for them in the absence of another 
minister. 

By a deed dated June 3, 1709, and recorded April 11, 
1730, the Rev. Joseph Morgan conveyed the aforesaid mill 
to John Lyon, and the latter made disposition of the same in 
his will. 

On the third Monday of December, 1763, the town 
granted leave to David Bush to build a grist-mill on Strick- 
land Brook. He was probably the successor in the interest 
of the heirs and devisees of John Lyon, and it was his daugh- 
ter, according to the legend, whom General Putnam took 
with him on his horse to a ball at Pecksland the night before 
his ride down "the rocky steep" when chased by the British 
at Horseneck. The following protested against the making 
of said grant: Edward Brush, Nehemiah Mead, Deliver- 
ance Mead, Jabez Mead, Jr., Nathaniel Finch, and Caleb 
Mead. 

At the annual town meeting held on the third Monday 
of December, 1767, the following petition was presented by 
Nathaniel Close relative to the landing and mill at Cos Cob : 

To the benevolent inhabitants of the Town of Green- 
wich in Fairfield County the petition of Nathaniel Close of 
said Greenwich humbly showeth, that your petitioner being 
under a necessity of a storehouse, as his performing a weekly 
pauquet or stage boat from here to New York lays both him 
and the inhabitants under a great disadvantage, in respect he 
hath no proper place to store the effects of his freighters, nor 
for them to store what effects and produce they severally 
bring when his vessel is not there to receive it ; which disad- 
vantage hath been sensibly felt during the last summer. 
He therefore prays liberty of this meeting, that he may be 
permitted to build a storehouse of 26 feet by 30 feet, ad- 



58 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

joining the bank, between the dwelling house of John Bush 
and the gristmill of David Bush, so as to leave about sixteen 
feet from said mill to sd store for a cartway, if need be, and 
that he may build it by the bank adjoining thereto and to 
said mill pond; and as your petitioner conceives a house so 
built would incommode no particular person, but be a general 
profit to the inhabitants, as well as your petitioner, he there- 
fore hopes that you gentlemen in your prudence will grant 
his request, and your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever 
pray. 

The town voted that the prayer of the petitioner be 
granted. 

At the annual town meeting held on the twelfth day of 
December, 1791, Abraham Mead, Ebenezer Mead, Thomas 
Hobby, Bezaleel Brown and Amos Mead were appointed a 
committee ' ' to repair to the Cos Cob Landing and examine 
into the state thereof and report their opinion thereon at an 
adjourned meeting to be holden on the second Monday of 
January, 1792, relative to building any store or stores on 
said landing and removing off encroachments from said land- 
ing and anything else relative to said landing that they may 
think for the good of the public. " 

On the ninth day of January, 1792 (second Monday), 
the committee reported as follows: 

Your committee find that the piazza, or shed, annexed 
to the front of Ezra Reynolds' dwelling house is extended on 
said landing and that as well as the old storehouse of David 
Bush ought to be removed off from the landing and that 
when said store is removed, that the wharf be extended about 
ten feet north of where the said store now stands, so as to 
leave to Mr. Bush a sufficient passage to the channel between 
the wharf and his gristmill and that it appears to your com- 
mittee necessary that there should be a slip opened at the 
north line of said Bush's wharf of eight feet wide to the chan- 
nel for the landing, or shipping of goods and effects at low 
water as well as for the conveying of passengers. Your 
committee are of the opinion that the landing wharf so ex- 
tended and built for teams to pass onto will be a great ad- 
vantage to this town and the public. 



Mill at Dumpling Pond 59 

Your committee then proceeded to take into considera- 
tion the grant made to Nathaniel Close of thirty feet front 
and twenty-six feet rear north of said Bush's grist mill, and 
in our opinion that by legal conveyances it is now vested in 
William Knapp of said Greenwich. We then viewed the 
ground between the said grant to Close and said Reynolds' 
dwelling house and found there is room for two stores of 
thirty feet in front and to extend east to high- water mark. 

Your committee is of the opinion that three stores would 
not incommode, but greatly accommodate the landing. 

Your committee further find that there is a complaint 
among the masters of the vessels which attend the landing of 
two rocks in the channel, one against the wharf and the other a 
little below, which injure vessels' bottoms and inconvenience 
the landing, which in their opinion ought to be removed. 

Voted in the affirmative to accept the report. 

The mill was destroyed by fire on the twenty-eighth day 
of January, 1899, and at the annual town meeting held on the 
second day of October, 1899, it was: 

RESOLVED, that the selectmen be and hereby are author- 
ized and instructed to purchase certain dock property at Cos 
Cob, at the following prices: 

Property known as the Cos Cob Mill property . . .$150.00 

Alexander Marshall property 600.00 

Deborah Marshall property 700.00 

and the aforesaid sums, or so much thereof as may be needed 
are hereby appropriated for said purpose, said property to be 
kept forever for public use. 

The first grant for a grist-mill of which there is any record 
was made on the thirteenth day of January, 1688, when 
"the town took into consideration the building of a grist-mill 
on the Mianus River" at Dumpling Pond (now North 
Mianus). This privilege was probably given to Joshua 
Haight, who enjoyed the benefits arising therefrom for only a 
few years, when he departed this life. The town afterwards 
having "recovered its rights in ye stream of the Mianus 
River heretofore granted to Joshua Haight, deceased," 
granted the same on the eighteenth day of March, 1697, to 



6o Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Jonathan Whelpley for a mill site. After his decease, John 
Burley was his successor in interest in 1725. 

On the fifteenth day of January, 1715, the town granted 
unto Justus Bush of New York 

the privilege of the stream of Horseneck Brook below the 
country road to build a grist mill or mills upon, and sd Justus 
Bush is to build said mill within two years time from this 
date, and to grind for the inhabitants of Greenwich what 
grain they shall bring to his mill to be ground, and not to 
put them by for strangers, and he is to have the liberty to 
gett stones and timber upon common lands for buildings and 
mill, and also to sett up a store-house upon said landing, and 
said Justus Bush is constantly to maintain a sufficient grist 
mill upon sd stream, except said mill should come to some 
accident by fire or otherwise, and said Justus Bush do not 
rebuild her again within three years time, then the said 
stream and privilege to return for there use and benefit as 
formerly, and further Ebenezer Mead, Angell Husted and 
John Ferris are chosen to lay out the landing and highway 
on the northside of Horseneck Brook. 

On the twenty-second day of December, 1724, the town 
granted liberty to Daniel Smith to build a wharf at the 
mouth of Horseneck Brook, at the landing there, for the use 
of the town. Some one hundred and eighty years thereafter, 
or thereabouts, Amelia J. Dougan claimed this dock pro- 
perty, and brought an action against the Town of Green- 
wich to recover possession thereof. The court handed down 
its decision in April, 1904, whereby it was held that the Town 
of Greenwich was still the owner and in possession of the 
premises in suit. An appeal was taken to the Supreme 
Court of Errors, which in December, 1904, confirmed the 
decision of the lower court. 

On the twenty-first day of June, 1754, the town granted 
liberty to Joseph Purdy to build a grist-mill, dam, and bridge 
at Mianus. The bridge when constructed was to be wide 
enough to allow a horse with two saddle-bags to pass over 
without coming in contact with the sides of the bridge. 

At a special town meeting held on the twelfth day of 



Mill at Mianus Landing 6i 

July, 1754, the Town of Greenwich through its duly author- 
ized agents did grant, remise, release, surrender, and confirm 
unto the said Joseph Purdy, his heirs and assigns forever, all 
its right, title, and interest in and to the stream of said river, 
provided the aforesaid dam, mill, and bridge be built as 
specified. 

The following persons protested against the proceedings 
of said meeting: 

1st. Because the law does not warrant any such meet- 
ing and the same is without authority. 
2nd. The grand jury of the said county has taken cog- 
nizance of the said Purdy's laying stones in said 
river, which were for the foundation of said dam, 
or bridge, and have found a bill of indictment 
against him therefor, as a common nuisance to his 
Majesty's subjects. Upon which indictment the 
same is to be tried in the county court to be held in 
Fairfield in said county on the third Tuesday of 
November next, and that preceding said suit of our 
Lord, the King, the proceedings to encourage said 
Purdy to go on and build would be vexatious. 
3rd. That to give approbation to the said Purdy to go 
on with the work will involve the town in the same 
trespass as the said Purdy is in and expose it to 
ansv/er all damages and be at all the expense of re- 
moving the nuisance and la}^ it liable to the public 
resentments. 

Benjamin Brush. Isaac Holmes. 

Edward Brush. Samuel Mills, Jr. 

Henry Bush. John Palmer. 

John Crawford. John Palmer, Jr. 

Nathaniel Finch. John Palmer, 3rd. 

Abraham Hays. Justus Palmer. 

Jonathan Hobby. Messenger Palmer. 

Jonathan Hobby, Jr. Nathaniel Sackett. 

Epenetus Holmes. James Winans. 

This bridge, together with the mill, was carried away by a 
freshet in 1787, and the town regranted to the then owners of 
the mill privileges the right to rebuild the same as follows: 



62 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Whereas application hath been made to the selectmen 
of said Greenwich by William, John, Samuel and Daniel 
Titus owners of the mills lately carried off by a freshet from 
the Mianus River in said Greenwich, to call a town meeting 
that the inhabitants may take into their consideration the 
proposals made by the said Tituses, provided the town give 
them liberty and a grant to build mills on that part of 
Mianus River where Purdy began a dam across near Captain 
Nathaniel Peck in said Greenwich, which proposals are as 
f oUoweth : 

1st, The said mills to be built on said Purdy' s old dam 
under the same restrictions as to grinding for the public as 
the mills above were. 

2nd. To lay out public landings each side of the river 
below the new dam as far as may be deemed necessary for the 
use of the public and to erect and keep in repair a sufficient 
dock on each side of the river, which shall be done by them, 
their heirs and assigns, as long as they or any of them occupy 
said mills. 

3rd. The flood-gate shall be so constructed as to open 
something in the form of a field gate for the convenience of 
vessels, and a crane shall be erected for the purpose of hoist- 
ing boats and swinging them over the dam by the said 
Tituses, their heirs, and as in the second article. 

4th. They will also erect a good and sufficient horse- 
bridge across said river and keep it in repair on or near said 
dam, and likewise a good scow will be kept in the mill-pond 
for the use of the public at all times, they giving one day's 
notice previous to the wanting of it. 

Wherefore and with the advice of the civil authority 
of said town, notice is hereby given and the inhabitants 
of the Town of Greenwich are hereby warned to attend a 
town meeting at the meeting house in the West Society in 
said Greenwich on Monday the fifteenth instant October at 
two o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of considering 
and discussing and granting or voting anything relative 
thereto, that they shall judge expedient, and the said John, 
Samuel and Daniel, with the assistance of Colonel Thomas 
Hobby, Jonah Ferris, Nathaniel Mead, Jonathan Coe and 
Abraham Hays, are hereby empowered to notify all the in- 
habitants by reading to the legal voters in the hearing of their 
families. 

At the special meeting held on the fifteenth day of Oc- 



Mill at Mianus Landing 63 

tober, 1787, in pursuance with the foregoing notice, the 
foregoing petition was read and discussed and the meeting 
voted to grant the prayer of the petitioners with these altera- 
tions and restrictions: 

That instead of a horse and foot bridge mentioned in the 
petition, the petitioners are to erect and maintain a sufficient 
cart bridge across said river which together with the mills and 
other articles enumerated in their propositions are to be com- 
pleted within four years from the date of this grant, and that 
Messrs. John Mackay, Jabez Fitch and Seth Palmer (the 
present selectmen), with Messrs. Samuel Peck, Samuel Lock- 
wood, Jr., Nehemiah Mead, Abraham Mead and William 
Bush, be a comn:)ittee to covenant with the petitioners in be- 
half of the town for the purpose of conveying the right of this 
town to the premises unto the petitioners, and to ascertain the 
dimensions of the landing places proposed in said petition, and 
that said committee go out at the expense of the petitioners, 
and that what said committee or the major part of them shall 
covenant and contract in behalf of this town shall stand good 
and firm as if the same were done at this meeting, and that 
should the petitioners fail in their engagements with said com- 
mittee, the privileges hereby granted to them will revert to 
the town. 

The following persons protested against the proceedings 
of the above meeting with respect to said town granting away 
the privileges of the Mianus River to the Messrs. Titus to set 
a mill on, agreeable to their request by petition: 

Peter Gauff . Messenger Palmer. 

Stephen Marshall. Seth Palmer. 

Denham Palmer. Stephen Palmer. 

John Palmer. Daniel Reynolds, 

John W. Palmer. Jeremiah Rundle. 

Peter A. Burtus and Company were the successors in in- 
terest of the Messrs. Titus, and at a town meeting held on the 
twenty- seventh day of December, 1796, it was voted "that 
on condition that Peter A. Burtus and Company make the 
present town dock adjoining their mill eight feet front bigger 
than it was according to covenant with the Tituses, which is 



64 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

thirty feet, and then the town dock will be thirty-eight feet 
in front, in which case said Burtus and Company is to have 
an addition of fourteen feet in front southerly from the 
original grant." 

After the old building on the west side of the river, near 
the bridge, was abandoned for mill purposes, it was bought 
by A. J. Finney in 1884 and converted into a general country 
store, and was used as such until it was destroyed by fire on 
the seventeenth day of March, 1897. 

At a special town meeting held on the sixteenth day of 
August, 1890, it was: 

RESOLVED, that the selectmen be and they hereby are 
authorized and empowered to convey by proper deed such 
right, or rights, as the town may have in and to a certain 
piece of land on the easterly side of the Mianus River at 
Mianus, now occupied by Edwin N. Scofield, and such right, 
or rights, as said town may have in or to any water rights of 
the Mianus River on the westerly side of said river, and op- 
posite to said land now occupied by said Edwin N. Scofield. 
Said premises and rights to be conveyed for factory purposes, 
and when the same shall cease to be used for such purposes 
the same shall revert to the town. 

'On the twelfth day of October, 1710, Rev. John Jones, 
who had been the settled minister of the First Society for 
seven months, brought suit for his salary. The General 
Assembly allowed him £20. 

On the ninth day of May, 1728, the Colonial Legislature 
passed an act creating a probate court at Stamford, as fol- 
lows: "There shall be a court of probate held at Stamford 
for the towns of Stamford, Greenwich and Ridgefield, to be 
held by one judge and clerk, with powers and privileges and 
fees as the other courts have in this colony. Appeals where 
allowable shall be made to the Superior Court in the County 
of Fairfield." Prior to this the probate court was at Fair- 
field. 

At the time the Rev. Thomas Prince was collecting ma- 

' Original Documents, Ecclesiastical Records, vol. ii., pp 26-30. 



Letter Written in 1729 65 

terial in 1729 for the Chronological History of New England, 
he received, in answer to one of his circulars, the following 
communication from the Rev. Stephen Munson, minister of 
the Second Congregational Church at Horseneck (Borough 
of Greenwich), dated August 12, 1729, as appears from the 
Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society: 

Mr. Robert Feacks and Daniel Patrick from Massa- 
chusetts, in 1640, made a purchase of Greenwich from the na- 
tives, and settled under the government of New Netherlands. 
They were incorporated and vested with town privileges by 
Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands. In 1665 
this town falling within the boimds of Connecticut, a grant 
of it was obtained from that colony of the town to eight 
persons on condition that they would maintain an orthodox 
minister among them. 

These grantees being sensible of their inability to perform 
the condition resigned their rights that others might come in 
and share with them in the lands and that they might be able 
to support the gospel among them. About the year 1680, 
the eldest part of the town being much increased, many of the 
inhabitants moved over the river, called Mianus, and set- 
tled in the village commonly called Horseneck in English, 
and in Indian, Paihomsing. Here a society was formed for 
the settling of an orthodox minister among us, and here the 
town is now principally settled. 

Many difficulties arose, which prevented the settlement 
of the ministery among them until the year 171 7, when the 
Rev. Richard Sackit was ordained Nov. 2^. The number of 
males in the church when first gathered were seven. He died 
very suddenly May 7, 1727. He was well on the Sabbath, 
May 6, and preached all day, and on Monday night following 
departed this life, leaving his church then consisting of ten 
males. On May 29, 1728, Mr. Stephen Munson was or- 
dained pastor in the church at Horseneck. 

There was in this part of the town called Horseneck a 
very bloody battle fought between the Dutch and Indians in 
the year 1646, where the Dutch with much difficulty obtained 
the victory. Great numbers were slain and their graves 
remain unto this day appearing like many little small hills. 

The earthquake in 1727 was felt here, tho' not so ter- 
ribly as in some other places. 

There was a very mortal sickness in town the same year. 



66 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



On the thirty-first day of May, 1731, the following in- 
habitants^ residing in the northeasterly part of the town 
served notice on the Horseneck Society, now the Second 
Congregational Church, of their intention to withdraw from 
said society and form the Stanwich Society, and the presen- 
tation of a petition to the General Assembly asking leave to 
form such a society: 



Austin, Jonathan. 
Brush, Benjamin. 
Brush, John. 
Brush, Stephen. 
Callory, Thomas. 
Clark, James. 
Cliven (?), Jonathan. 
Cross, John. 
Ferris, John. 
Ferris, Nathaniel. 
Ferris, Peter. 
Finch, Jonathan. 
Hubert, Abraham. 
Hubert, Daniel. 



Hurley, Samuel. 
Knapp, Benjamin. 
Knapp, David. 
Knapp, Joseph. 
Lockwood, Hezekiah. 
Mead, Joshua. 
Mow, John, 
Palmer, Joseph. 
Palmer, Samuel. 
Piatt, Benoni. 
Smith, Henry. 
Taylor, Charles. 
Wansworth, Abraham. 



The following inhabitants residing in the northwesterly 
part of the Town of Stamford served a similar notice on the 
Stamford Society: 



Briggs, Daniel. 
Choster, Daniel. 
Conklin, Timothy. 
Cory, Thomas. 
Dibble, George. 
Guernsey, John. 
Ingersoll, John. 
Ingersoll, Nathaniel. 
Ingersoll, Simon. 
Newman, John. 



Newman, Jonathan. 
Newman, Nathaniel. 
Newman, Thomas. 
Smith, David. 
Smith, Ebenezer. 
Smith, Samuel. 
White, John. 
White, Stephen. 
Wooster, Ebenezer. 



After the meeting-house was raised the following petition 
was sent to the General Assembly : 

' From Original Documents, Ecclesiastical Records, vol. iii., pages 7 to 27, 
State Library. 



Stanwich Congregational Church 67 

"1732, May II. Upon the memorial of George Dibble, 
Ebenezer Smith, Samuel Smith, and other inhabitants of 
Stamford and Horseneck, praying that this Assembly would 
set off the people living in Stamford and Horseneck within 
the bounds following, to be a parish by themselves; viz.: 
To begin at the eight-mile line, or division line between the 
Colony of Connecticut and the Province of New York, at the 
partition line between Stamford and Horseneck, and so to 
run easterly by said eight-mile line three miles, and westerly 
by said line one and one half miles, and to run southerly by 
said partition line between Stamford and Horseneck four 
miles, and thence parallel with said eight-mile line three miles 
into Horseneck and one and one half miles into Stamford." 
A committee was appointed to consider the circumstances of 
the people and place and whether a parish might be con- 
veniently had within the aforesaid place. On a favorable 
report of the committee to the session held in October of the 
same year the petition was granted, and it was resolved 
"that the parish be called and known by the name of Stan- 
wich with all parish powers and privileges that other parishes 
in this colony are by law endowed with. " 



CHAPTER VII. 
KING George's war, i 744-1 748 — French and indian war, 

1 754-1 764 — DR. AMOS MEAD TIMOTHY REYNOLDS 

TOWN SUPPLY OF POWDER — ^TOWN BUILDING — FIRST 

SOCIETY WITHOUT A SETTLED MINISTER POPULATION 

IN 1762— SCHOOL FUND OF 1 762 — NORWALK PROPOSED 
AS A COUNTY SEAT — CLAIM TO LANDS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

The first half of the eighteenth centur}^ in this country- 
was marked by the varying struggles between the English 
and French for supremacy on the border ground of the colo- 
nial settlements. The French, with a more persuasive policy, 
had made friends with the Indians more readily than the 
English, and, as early as 1737, attempted to use the ad- 
vantage thus gained by erecting a fort at Crown Point, then 
claimed as being within English territory. From this time 
until 1763, there was no settled peace between the two coun- 
tries, and the conflicts which ensued called for large forces 
from all the English colonial settlements. 

While the Colony of Connecticut furnished more than 
her actual quota of men for active service in the various 
colonial wars : King William's War, 1689-1697 ; Queen Anne's 
War, 1702-1713; and King George's War, 1744-1748; 
still the author has been unable to find any record of any 
company, detachment, or squad of men having enlisted from 
the Town of Greenwich, except such as has been obtained 
from Hoadley's Colonial Records of Connecticut, and from 
the Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, as 
follows : 

68 



King George's War 
King George's War, i 744-1 748 



69 



Under an order of the fourteenth day of June, 1744, the 
following men entered the service: 



Barton, Joseph, Jr., 
Burley, Ebenezer, 
Bush, Samuel, 
Callary, Morris, 
Cavanaugh, Peter, 
Disney, Charles, 
Ferris, Caleb, Jr., 
Ferris, John, Jr., 
Ferris, Peter, 
Griffis, Thomas, 
Holmes, Benjamin, 
Holy, Benjamin, Jr., 
Howe, Nathaniel, 
Johnson, Samuel, 
Mead, Zebediah, 
Palmer, Enos, 
Palmer, Isaac, 
Perry, Samuel, 
Reike(?),John, 
Rich, John, 
Studwell, Nathaniel, 



from Horseneck. 
from Greenwich, 
from Horseneck. 
from Horseneck. 
from Horseneck, 
from Horseneck. 
from Horseneck. 
from Stanwich. 
from Stanwich. 
from Horseneck. 
from Horseneck. 
from Horseneck. 
from Stanwich. 
from Greenwich, 
from Horseneck. 
from Stanwich. 
from Stanwich. 
from Horseneck. 
from Horseneck. 
from Horseneck. 
from Horseneck. 
from Stanwich. 
from Greenwich, 
from Horseneck. 



Tyler, Jehiel, 

Whelpley, Jonathan, Jr., 

Williams, William, 
Mead, James, Ensign. The Assembly of June 19, 1746, re- 
solved to raise one thousand men (including officers) for 
an expedition against Canada, and James Mead was 
appointed and commissioned to be ensign of Captain 
Joseph Wooster's Company of Foot to be raised in 
Connecticut. 



The town minutes during this period do not contain any 
data with reference to the military activities which the in- 
habitants participated in, owing to the organization of a regi- 
ment by the Colony of Connecticut for service in this war, 
although twenty-four men or more from the town were 
mustered into the service. 



70 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Peace was proclaimed in 1748, but it was of short dura- 
tion. The French renewed their claim to a great portion of 
the territory which had been ceded to Great Britain by the 
treaty of New Utrecht, and which had been confirmed by 
succeeding treaties. They were encroaching on the north 
and had erected a fort at Crown Point, and on the west were 
fast extending their line of forts from the St. Lawrence to the 
Mississippi, and had even encroached upon the borders of 
Virginia, and English traders were plundered and killed by 
the Indians at the instigation of the French. Active hostili- 
ties were commenced in 1755, and this war was known as the 

French and Indian War. 

Connecticut was largely drawn upon for troops. Young 
men were pressed into the service, and as Greenwich, during 
the early part of the war, had no volunteer company, several 
of the inhabitants were pressed. James Green used to relate 
that while a company of young people, himself included 
among the number, were quietly enjoying themselves at the 
tavern, then kept by Henry Mead, they were surprised by a 
press-gang and several of them forced into the service, while 
he with a few others escaped through a window. Soon after 
this a volunteer company was raised and commanded by 
Captain Thomas Hobby, who was afterwards a colonel in the 
Continental Army. This company rendered active service 
in the campaigns of 1755, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762. 

'The General Assembly in March, 1755, ordered the 
raising of one thousand men, to be divided into two regi- 
ments of six companies each, and empowered the governor to 
take measures for the raising of five hundred additional men, 
if it should become necessary. This additional force was 
raised about the end of August, 1755, in consequence of 
letters received from General Johnson, Commander-in-Chief 
of the colonial forces during the campaign of 1755. These 
companies were added to the two regiments already in the 

' Collections of the Connecticut Historical Sncinty, vols. ix. and x. 



French and Indian War 71 

field, probably three companies to each regiment. At about 
the same time the Assembly authorized the raising of two 
additional regiments, each to consist of seven hundred and 
fifty men, divided into nine companies. The Connecticut 
troops were under the command of Major-General Phineas 
Lyman of Suffield. At the battle of Lake George on the 
eighth day of September, 1755, the Lieutenant-General and 
Commander-in-Chief, Sir William Johnson of Warrensburgh, 
New York, was wounded, and the chief command thereupon 
devolved upon General Lyman. 

The Greenwich Company, under the command of 
Captain Thomas Hobby, was included in the two latter regi- 
ments and was mustered into service during the month of 
September, 1755, and continued therein until the first week 
of December of the same year. The addresses of the men 
are not given on the printed roll, which contains the following 
names : 

8th Company, 4TH Regiment. 

Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. 
Holly, Nathan, 1st Lieutenant. 
Barnes, John, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Sergeants. 

Ferris, Peter, Sill, David, 

Ferris, Reuben, Stebbins, Josiah, 

Betts, Nathan, Clerk. Brooks, Jonathan, Drummer. 

Corporals. 

Benedict, Matthew, Scott, William, 

Mead, Joseph, , Whelpley, Daniel. 

Privates. 

Barnes, Thomas, Chapman, Elisha, 

Beay, Peter, Cogswell, Edward, 

Brunson, Jabez, Danells, William, 

Buckley, Andrew (?), Deen, John, 

Burch, Valentine, Elmer, David, 

Chapel, Samuel, Ferris, Samuel, 



^2 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Gates, Jonathan, 
Goodrich, Daniel, 
Graham, Bamaby, 
Hait, Gedion, 
Hall, Jabez, 
Hutchenson, Joseph, 
Jarman, John, 
Johnson, John, Jr., 
Jones, James, 
Kelley, Morris, 
Kenney, Jacob, Jr., 

Lobdell, 

Lobdell, Ebenezer, 
Lockwood, Jeremiah, 
Mandor, Richard, 
Martin, James, 
y-Mead, Gershom, 
''^ Mead (?), Nathaniel (?), 
Messenger, Michael, 
Mojer, Enos, 
Molatto, Simon, 
Moor, John, 
Nicklos, John, 
Nortrup, Jabez, 
Nortrup, William, 

Nuel, ,Jr., 

Osbum, Aaron, 



Pardey, Ebenezer, 
Peck, Eliphalet, 
Peck, Joseph, 
Peters, Joseph, 
Reynolds, Sackett, 

Riggs, , 

Rockwell, Daniel, 
Rundle, Jacob, 
Rundle, Joseph, 
Sillsberry, Jonathan, 

Smith, , 

St. John, James, 
Tayler, Preserved, 
Tharps, Daniel, 
Tharps, Edward, 
Tryton, - — , 
Tumbling, Elisha, 
Tumbling, Stephen, 
Walls, David, 
Walter, Nathan, 
Welch, James, 
White, David, 
White, Thomas, 
Whitney, James, 
Willmoth, Zophar, 
Worden, Andrew, 



The General Assembly in February, 1756, resolved to 
raise two thousand and five hundred men, officers included, 
for the coming campaign, the forces to be divided into four 
regiments of eight companies each. In October, 1756, in 
consequence of a letter from the Earl of Loudon, the As- 
sembly resolved to raise eight additional companies, to be 
added to the four regiments already in the field as the ninth 
and tenth companies. It is probable that these companies 
were not raised owing to the lateness of the season. Half- 
pay from the seventeenth day of December, 1755, to the date 
of re-enlistment was allowed to the officers and soldiers who 
had served in the previous campaign, and a gratuity of one 
month's pay was granted to the officers and soldiers who had 



French and Indian War 73 

served in garrison during the winter. During the campaign 
of 1756, the Connecticut forces continued under the com- 
mand of Major-General Phineas Lyman, and the expedition 
was against Canada. 

There was no company from Greenwich mustered into 
the service during this campaign, but many of those who 
served in Captain Hobby's Company the previous year re- 
enHsted in Captain David Waterbury's Company of Stam- 
ford. The printed roll contains the following names: 

5TH Company, 4TH Regiment. 

Waterbury, David, 3rd, Captain, of Stamford. 

Ferris, Reuben, ist Lieutenant. 

Lockwood, Timothy, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Sergeants. 

Finch, Jeremiah, Smith, Isaac, 

Knapp, Caleb, Wardel, James, 

Newman, John, Whelpley, Daniel. 
Slauson, Ebenezer, 

Clerks. 

Smith, Israel, Waterbury, Peter. 

Corporals. 

Crissey, Ebenezer, Newman, David, 

Willmoth, Francis, Drum- Reynolds, Timothy, Centinel. 



mer. 



Privates. 



Adams, John, Davis, Hezekiah, 

Ambler, Stephen, Delevand, John, 

Ask, Thomas, Denslow, Charles, 

Astin, Lockwood, Denslow, John, 

Avery, Peter, Ferris, Joseph, 

Barley, David, Ferris, Nathan, 

Bates, Abraham, Ferris, Pack, 

Bea, Isack, Gales, William, 

Chapman, Daniel, George, Thomas, 

Cosher, Hezekiah, Holly, John, 



74 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Hubbard, Daniel, 
Jagger, Jeremiah, 
Jarman, John, 
Jessup, Nathaniel, 
Johnson, William, 
Knapp, Ebenezer, 
Knapp, Jonas, 
Knapp, Nehemiah, 
Lockwood, Abraham, 
Lockwood, Jeremiah, 
Lockwood, Moses, 
Lockwood, Samuel, 
Mangrel, Richard, 
Mashel, Peter, 
Mashel, Silas, 
Mead, James, 
Messenger, Michael, 
Moger, James, 
Morgan, Joseph, 
Mow, John, 
Newman, David, 
Parmer, James, 



Parmer, Samuel, 
Peck, John, 
Perday, David, 
Reynolds, Ebenezer, 
Reynolds, Ely, 
Reynolds, Titus, 
Rickey, John, 
Salar, Ezekiel, 
Sellick, Jonathan, 
Slauson, Isaac, 
Slauson, Silvanus, 
Slossman, Israel, 
Smith, Moses, 
Steward, James, 
Tharps, Edward, 
Webb, Jonathan, 
Weed, Jonathan, 
Weed, Youngs, 
Williams, Charles, 
Winchel, Jonas, 
Wright, James. 



The General Assembly in February, 1757, resolved to 
raise one thousand and four hundred men for the next 
campaign, to be formed into one regiment of fourteen com- 
panies, to act in conjunction with the regular troops under 
the command of the Earl of Loudon. In October, 1757, 
the Assembly ordered the enlisting of three companies of 
ninety-four men each, including officers, out of the troops 
already in the service, to remain in service through the 
winter. The Connecticut forces continued under the 
command of Phineas Lyman, whose military title for this 
campaign was Colonel. An alarm in August, at the 
time of the capture of Fort William Henry, called out 
many of the militia, which included Captain White's 
Company of Stanwich, 9th Regiment. The company 
marched to the relief of Fort William Henry and the parts 
adjacent thereto, and it was in service during the month 
of August, 1757. The printed roll contains the following 
names : 



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75 



White, Stephen, Captain, of Stanwich. 

Mead, Caleb, Lieutenant. 

Lockwood, Ezekiel, Ensign. 

Sergeants. 

Holmes, Reuben, Lockwood, Nathaniel, 

Johnson, Samuel, Whelpley, Daniel. 

Perot, John, Clerk. 

Corporals. 

Ferris, Samuel, 
Jurden, John. 

Privates. 



Austin, Job, 
Brown, Bezaleel, 



Ackerly, Felix, 
Bard, Roberts, 
Coe, Joseph, 
Cross, Nathaniel, 
Ferris, Jabez, 
Ferris, Peter, 
Ferris, Silvanus, 
Green, James, 
Green, Jeremiah, 
Hait, Abraham, 
Hartman, Christopher, 
Hobby, Benjamin, 
Hobby, John, 
Holly, Abraham, 
Holly, Nathaniel, 
Holmes, John, 
Ingersoll, Simon, 
Jessup, Silvanus, 
June (?), William, 
Knapp, David, 
Knapp, James, 
Knapp, John, 
Knapp, Joseph, 
Lockwood, Nathan, 
Lyon, William, 
Marshall, John, 
Marshall, Mead, 
Mead, Benjamin, 
Mead, Deliverance, 



Mead, Elijah, 
Mead, Henry, 
Mead, Jesse, 
Mead, Joseph, 
Mead, Nathaniel, 
Mead, Nathaniel, Jr., 
Newman, Ezra, 
Newman, Isaac, 
Newman, Joseph, 
Palmer, Denham, 
Pardee, David, 
Partelo, Amos, 
Peck, James, 
Peck, Joseph, 
Penoyr, Thomas, 
Randall, Abraham, 
Reynolds, Horton, 
Reynolds, Reuben, 
Selleck, Thaddeus, 
Smith, David, 
Smith, Joshua, 
Smith, Samuel, 
Smith, Whitman, 
Todd, Abraham, Jr., 
Waring, James, 
Webb, Benjamin, 
Whiting, Ebenezer, 
Wilson, William, 
Wood, Halsted. 



76 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Thirty-seven of the above named rode horses from Horse- 
neck, seventeen from Stanwich, and eleven from Greenwich, 
Old Town. The following were detailed to return the 
horses : 

Mead, Henry, Newman, Isaac, 

Mead, Joseph, Reynolds, Horton. 

It should be borne in mind that the militia companies 
were only called out to re-enforce the troops already in the 
field. Greenwich had, at the commencement of this cam- 
paign, furnished her quota of men, who were now in the 
service in Captain Waterbury's Company of Stamford. 
The printed roll contains the following names : 

6th Company, ist Regiment. 

Waterbury, David, 3rd, Captain, of Stamford. 

Ferris, Reuben, ist Lieutenant of Greenwich. 

Taylor, John, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Stebbins, Josiah, Ensign. 

Sergeants. 

Ferris, Nathan, Taylor, Reuben, 

Gale, William, Whelpley, Isaac, 

Bates, Abraham, Clerk, Elmer, Daniel, Drummer. 

Corporals. 

Jagger, Jeremiah, Morris, Joseph, 

Lockwood, Moses, Verdin, Peter. 

Privates. 

Ask, Thomas, Dan, David, 

Bamite, William, Daton, Stephen, 

Baterson, Joseph, Dauchy, James, 

Bates, Ebenezer, Deen, John, 

Beears, Jesse, Demorat, John, 

Camp, Abraham, Denslow, Charles, 

Canedy, Philip, Dickson, Nathan, 

Castalow, James, Downs, Robert, 

Close, Nathaniel, Eget, Stephen, 



French and Indian War 



n 



Ferris, James, 
Ferris, Pack, 
Forquar, Robert, 
George, Thomas, 
Gray, Nathan, 
Green, Ezra, 
Gregory, Seely, 
Hays, Thomas, 
Hilton, Addison, 
House, John, 
Jackson, Daniel, 
Jackson, Stephen, 
Jagger, Reuben, 
Jarman, John, 
Jessup, Nathaniel, 
Kelly, Morris, 
j< Knapp, Amos, 
' Leeke, William, 
Lewis, Foster, 
Lewis, William J., 
Lobdell, Ebenezer, 
Lockwood, Ephraim, 
Lockwood, John, 
Lockwood, Robert, 
Loder, John, 
Mead, James, 
Morris, Stephen, 
Mow, John, 
Nash, Jedediah, 
Nickals, Thomas, 
Nickes, Nehemiah, 
Olmstead, David, 
Palmer, Jacob, 
Palmer, Samuel, 
Palmer, Silas, 

The General Assembly in March, 1758, resolved to raise 
five thousand men, officers included, for the coming cam- 
paign, the forces to be divided into four regiments of twelve 
companies each. These troops were to act in conjunction 
with those of the other New England Colonies under Major- 
General Abercromby, Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's 
forces in North America. The Connecticut forces con- 



Peters, Benjamin, 
Pro verse, Samuel, 
Raymond, Sands, 
Reboe, Andrew, 
Reynolds, Caleb, 
Reynolds, Daniel, 
Reynolds, Ebenezer, 
Rockwell, John, 
Seely, Abijah, 
Selleck, Nathaniel, 
Sherwood, Samuel, 
Sickels, Eliakim, 
Slason, Peter, 
Slason, Silvanus, 
Sloem, Alexander, 
Smith, Josiah, 
Smith, Moses, 
Squier, Nathaniel, 
St. John, Isaac, 
Steward, Daniel, 
Stone, John, 
Taylor, Barak, 
Taylor, Phineas, 
Tharps, Daniel, 
Tomson, John, 
Waterbury, Ebenezer, 
Webb, Jonathan, 
Weed, Youngs, 
Westcott, Nathaniel, 
White, David, 
Williams, Charles, 
Willmoth, Zophar, 
Worden, Samuel, 
Yeras, Nathan. 



78 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

tinned under the command of Major-General Phineas 
Lyman, and the expedition was against Crown Point and 
Fort Ticonderoga. 

The Greenwich company, under the command of Captain 
Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 4th Regiment early 
in the spring of 1758. 

5TH Company, 4th Regiment. 

Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. 

Walker, Josiah, ist Lieutenant. 

Olmstead, Stephen, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Mead, James, Ensign. 

This company apparently consisted of seventy- two men, 
in addition to the officers. The roll does not appear in the 
printed records. 

The General Assembly in March, 1759, resolved to raise 
three thousand and six hundred men, including officers, for 
the coming campaign, and gave further encouragement for 
four hundred more to enlist, the forces to be divided into four 
regiments of ten companies each. In May, 1759, the As- 
sembly gave encouragement for enlisting one thousand 
additional men to be added to the four regiments, three 
companies each to the first and second, and two companies 
each to the third and fourth. The Connecticut forces con- 
tinued under the command of Major-General Phineas 
Lyman, and the expedition was against Crown Point and 
Fort Ticonderoga. 

The Greenwich Company, under the command of Cap- 
tain Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 3rd Regiment 
early in the spring of 1759. The printed roll contains the 
following names : 

3RD Regiment. 

Mead, Amos, Surgeon, of Greenwich, at Ticonderoga, 
October, 1759. 



French and Indian War 



79 



4TH Company. 

Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. 

Hall, Jabez, ist Lieutenant. 

Mead, James, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Mead, Joseph, Ensign. 



Sergeants. 



Barnes, Joseph, 
Knapp, David, 

Parsons, Jesse, Clerk. 



Lockwood, Moses, 
Stevens, Hesekiah, 

Baird, Robert, Drummer. 
Rundle, Abraham, Drum- 
mer. 



Corporals. 



Burhoms, Henry, 
Joyce, John, 



Mead, Sylvanus, 
Whelpley, Darling. 



Privates. 



Abbott, David, 
Alger, James, 
Austin, David, 
Bamham, Nathan, 
Baxter, David, 
Beardslee, John, 
Bennitt, James, 
Brown, Thomas, 
Castien, Samuel, 
Edwards, Robert, 
Fairchild, Samuel, 
Ferris, Moses, 
Ferris, Timothy, 
Finch, David, 
Finch, Jonathan, 
Graves, Allen, 
Graves, Stephen, 
Hall, Elnathan, 
Harrison, Robert, 
Hobby, Enos, 
Holmes, Thatford (?), 
Jessup, Silvanus, 
Johnson, Peter, 
Kelly, Maurice, 



Ketcham, Benjamin, 
Knapp, Abraham, 
Knapp, Daniel, 
Lee, Joseph, 
Lockwood, Caleb, 
Lockwood, Jacob, 
Lockwood, Joshua, 
Marshall, Jeremiah, 
Marshall, Samuel, 
Mead, Eliphalet, 
Mead, Jesse, 
Measurall, Christian, 
Morehouse, Daniel, 
Myers, Alexander, 
Nuel, Lostis, 
Owens, Ebenezer, 
Palmer, Enos, 
Palmeter (?), Silvanus, 
Patterson, William, 
Peck, Henry, 
Peck, John, 
Poor, James, 
Pue, Henry, 
Reynolds, Titus, 



8o Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Seeley, Nehemiah, Trowbridge, Seth, 

Smithsur (?), Jasper, Willmoth, Francis, 

Studwell, Abraham, Wilson, Daniel, 

Towner, Ithiel (?), Wilson, Uriah. 

The General Assembly in March, 1760, resolved to raise 
five thousand men, officers included, for the coming cam- 
paign, to serve "under the supreme command of his Maj- 
esty's Commander-in-Chief in America," the forces to be 
divided into four regiments of twelve companies each. The 
Connecticut forces continued under the command of Major- 
General Phineas Lyman, and the expedition was against 
Montreal. The Greenwich Company, under the command 
of Captain Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 3rd 
Regiment. 

5TH Company, 3RD Regiment. 

Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. 

Lockwood, Timothy, ist Lieutenant. 

Mead, James, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Mead, Joseph, Ensign. 

This company consisted of five sergeants, six corporals, 
and fifty privates who had served in some previous cam- 
paign, and sixteen new soldiers, probably in addition to the 
four commissioned officers. The roll does not appear in the 
printed records. 

The General Assembly in March, 1761, resolved to raise 
two thousand and three hundred men, officers included, for 
the coming campaign, the forces to be divided into two regi- 
ments of twelve companies each. These troops were to be 
under the supreme command of his Majesty's Commander- 
in-Chief in America. In October, 1761, the Assembly re- 
solved to give proper encouragement for new enlisting from 
the troops then in service of two hundred and twenty-six 
men, including officers, to serve during the coming winter and, 
if necessary, until the first day of July, 1762. The Con- 
necticut forces continued under the command of Major- 



French and Indian War 8i 

General Phineas Lyman, and the expedition was against the 
Indians. 

The Greenwich company, under the command of Captain 
Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 2nd Regiment early 
in the spring of 1761. The printed roll contains the fol- 
lowing names : 

6th Company, 2nd Regiment. 

Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. 

Hall, Jabez, ist Lieutenant. 

Smith, Moses, Jr., 2nd Lieutenant. 

Stebbins, Joseph, Ensign. 

Sergeants. 

Baird, Robert, Tharp, Eduert, 

Hall, David, Whelpley, Isaac. 

Jones, John, 

Drummers. 
Hobby, John, Reynolds, Eli. 

Corporals. 

Finch, Jeremiah, Smith, Joseph, 

Foster, Zachariah, Weed, Gilbert. 

Privates. 

Addington, John, Craford, Thomas, 

Adoms, Abraham, Cross, Nathaniel, 

Ambler, Jonathan, Curten, John, 

Bamet, Jeremiah, Dayly, Samuel, 

Bamum, Bunel, Ditmen, Stephen, 

Bamum, Nathan, Dogherty, Andrew, 

Bennet, Gabral, Ferrel, John, 

Bennet, Moses, Ferris, Thomas, 

Blake, WilHam, Finch, Jonathan, 

Bond, Michael, Fisher, Francis, 

Bradly, Jabez, Flowers, Joseph, 

Bush, Martin, Gales, Josiah, 

Chapman, Daniel, Gilbert, Hezekiah, 

Clement, Francis, Gilbert, Isaac, 

Coll, Hezekiah, Gregory, Zachariah, 

Conoly, Patrick, Griffen, Joseph, 



82 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Hael, Amos, 
Hall, Gasham, 
Hally, Gerediah, 
Hambleton, Aduert, 
Hobby, Thomas, Jr., 
Holouday, Michael, 
Hubert, Joseph, 
Johnson, Peter, 
Johnson, William, 
Joyce, James, 
Joyce, John, 
Kady, Maleky, 
Knapp, Amos, 
Knapp, Caleb, 
Knapp, Eli, 
Knapp, Samuel, 
Labdle, Uriah, 
Lee, Joseph, 
Lues, James, 
McMullen, James, 
Marshall, Thomas, 
Mead, Josiah, 
Mious, Alexander, 
Morehouse, Elisha, 
Morehouse, Elisha, Jr., 
Nicholas, John, 
Nichols, Joseph, 



Palmer, Samuel, 
Partilo, Amos, 
Partilo, Jehiel, 
Perry, Elisha, 
Perry, James, 
Resseca, James, 
Reynolds, Jeremiah, 
Reynolds, Jonathan, 
Reynolds, Philip, 
Reynolds, Silas, 
Roberts, Benjamin, 
Rundle, Joshua, 
Sherwood, Abel, 
Sherwood, Andrew, 
Sherwood, Nemiah, 
Slauson, John, 
Smith, John, 
Studwell, Abraham, 
Thearps, Daniel, 
Traner, John, 
White, Uriah, 
Willmoth, Francis, 
Wood, Jonah, 
Wright, James, 
Wright, Reuben, 
Wright, Salvenus. 



The General Assembly in March, 1762, resolved to raise 
two thousand and three hundred men, ojfficers included, for 
the coming campaign "to march to such place or places in 
North America as his Majesty's Commander-in-Chief shall 
appoint"; the forces to be divided into two regiments of 
twelve companies each. The first regiment, excepting the 
tenth company, took part in the expedition against Havana. 
The second regiment and the tenth company of the first 
regiment served in the northern campaign. Encourage- 
ment was also given for the enlistment of five hundred and 
seventy-five men to aid in making the complement of the 
regular regiments serving in America. In October, 1762, 
the Assembly gave "proper encouragement" for new en- 



French and Indian War 83 

listing, from the troops then in service, of two hundred and 
twenty-six men, including officers, to serve during the 
coming winter and, if necessary, until the first day of July, 
1763. The Connecticut forces continued under the com- 
mand of Major-General Phineas Lyman. 

The Greenwich company, under the command of Captain 
Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 2nd Regiment early 
in the spring of 1762. The printed roll contains the fol- 
lowing names : 

5TH Company, 2nd Regiment. 

Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. 

Hall, Jabez, 1st Lieutenant. 

Smith, Moses, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Mead, Matthew, Ensign. 

Sergeants. 

Hobby, Thomas, Jr., Tharp, Edward, 

Finch, Jeremiah, Towner, Othiel. 

Mead, Jeremiah, 

Drummers. 

Ketcham, Benjamin, Reynolds, Eli. 

Corporals. 

Chase, Isaac, Reynolds, Eliphalet, 

Kimberly, Ephriam, Rowley, Israel. 

Privates. 

Abrahamson, Justus, Chapman, Daniel, 

Adams, Jonathan, Chappel, Nathaniel, 

Adams, Jonathan, Jr., Chase, Joshua, 

Bartow, Peter, Clement, Francis, 

Beardslee, John, Clock, Peter, 

Bennit, Stephen, Cross, Nathaniel, 

Betts, Ezer, Curtain, John, 

Blake, William, Dikeman, Stephen, 

Bush, John, Dilluvan, John, 

Bush, Martin, Durant, Peter, 

Cadey, Malachi, Fairchild, Andrew, 

Chapman, Barnabas, Ferris, Abraham, 



84 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Ferris, Gilbert, 
Ferris, Pack, 
George, Thomas, 
Gideons, Solomon, 
Green, John, 
Green, Joseph, 
Haight, Amos, 
Hall, John, 
Hall, Joseph, 
Hall, Josiah, 
Hall, Lewis, 
Jessup, Nathaniel, 
Joyce, James, 
Kelley, James, 
Kellyhat, William, 
Knapp, Amos, 
Knapp, Jonas, 
Lewis, Thomas, 
Lockwood, Hezekiah, 
Lockwood, Jabez, 
Lockwood, Robert, 
Lockwood, Stephen, 
McGregory, Duncan, 
McMullen, James, 
Marshall, Thomas, 
Mead, Jesse, 
Mills, John, 
Moger, Isaac, 
Aiurry, Thomas, 
Nicholas, John, 



Nichols, Eliakim, 
Nichols, Nehemiah, 
Palmer, Enos, 
Parks, Andrew, 
Partilo, Jehiel, 
Patchen, George, 
Patchen, Jesse, 
Price, John, 
Reynolds, James, 
Reynolds, Jonathan, 
Reynolds, Silas, 
Roberts, Peter, 
Rockwell, John, 
Rowell, Oliver, 
Scribner, Stephen, 
Smith, Jasper, 
Smith, John, 
St. John, Ezra, 
Thomas, Joseph, 
Underwood, Thomas, 
Walker, Isaac, 
Wallis, Joshua, 
Wanser, Jesse, 
Ward, Peter, 
Webb, Joseph, 
Wiccomb (?), Jonathan, 
Willmoth, Francis, 
Wood, Jonah, 
Yarns, Adonijah. 



During the war a part of the regular troops were 
quartered at Stamford, ' Connecticut, and at a town meeting 
held in 1757, the Town of Stamford voted, that if the "Earl 
of Loudon shall send regulars into this town, the town will 
bear the charge of accommodating them with what shall 
be necessary for them." The committee appointed to care 
for the troops made the following report: 

These may certify your Honors, that the Highland 
soldiers ordered to be quartered in the Town of Stamford 



' Huntington's History of Stamford. 



French and Indian War 85 

arrived at said town November 30, 1757, and were quar- 
tered there until March 30, 1758. The number of soldiers, 
officers included, were 250. There were also belonging to 
them, 17 women and 9 children. They were at the cost of 
the town provided with houseroom, bedding, firewood, 
candles, &c., &c. Their officers insisted upon their being 
kept in a small compass, which exposed us to much more 
trouble and cost than otherwise would have been necessary. 

Stamford, April 28, 1758. 

JONA. HOYT ) ^ • 

Abr. Davenport [ Comniittee to take care 
Jno. Holly ) '^^ ^^® Highlanders. 

In 1758, troops were again quartered at Stamford, and 
in December of that year, a committee was appointed "to 
supply his Majesty's regular forces now quartered in this 
town with firewood for their guard room and hospital and 
what bedding they shall think proper to provide them with, 
to be paid for out of the town treasury. " The Governor and 
Company of the Colony of Connecticut, at their meeting in 
New Haven, on the second Thursday of October, 1758, 
ordered the colony treasurer to pay the Town of Stamford 
£369, 13s and 4.d to reimburse the town for the cost of keep- 
ing "a part of Colonel Fraser's Highland Battalion the last 
winter." 

Some of the descendants of Surgeon Amos Mead have in 
their possession an old flintlock-pistol and powder horn, 
which were carried by him through the campaign of 1759, 
and upon the powder horn are almost perfectly delineated, the 
relative positions and forts of the hostile armies of Ticon- 
deroga. This work was done by Dr. Mead while in active 
service as Surgeon of the 3rd Connecticut Regiment. The 
horn, besides, has engraved upon it the following: 

"Amos Mead, 
"Surgn of ye 3d Conn Reg 
"Ticonderoga October 1759." 

His original commission, which was duly issued under 



86 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

the Seal of the Colony of Connecticut and signed by the 
Governor, is also in their possession. 

Timothy Reynolds, who was a soldier in Captain White's 
Company of Stanwich during the campaign of 1756, was 
captured by the Indians and after his escape presented the 
following petition to the General Assembly : 

1760, March 13. Upon the memorial of Timothy Rey- 
nolds of Greenwich, "representing to this Assembly that he 
was a soldier in the service of this Colony on the seventeenth 
day of July, 1756, at Lake George, and was then on a party 
with Major Waterbury when attacked by the enemy, and 
was taken prisoner by the Indians and carried into captivity, 
and by them detained until the second day of June last, when 
he found means to escape, and arrived at Lake George on the 
thirtieth day of June and entered the same service and con- 
tinued until the sixteenth day of October last, and praying 
this Assembly to Order him his pay as a soldier from said 
seventeenth day of July to the sixteenth day of October, as 
per memorial on file, 

"Resolved by this Assembly, that the sum of £25 be 
granted to said Timothy Reynolds, to be paid out of the 
public treasury of this Colony and the Treasurer of this 
Colony is hereby ordered and directed to pay the same to sd 
Timothy Reynolds. " 

At a town meeting held on the second day of March 
1756, it was "furthermore voted that Nehemiah Mead 
should have liberty to sell the town stock of powder as soon 
as he can conveniently to ye town's best advantage and lay 
out all the money that he shall sell said powder for in powder 
that is good and put the same into town stock as soon as he 
conveniently can, " 

On the fifteenth day of December, 1760, it was voted 
to build a town house and it was left to the authority 
of the selectmen to select a site and decide on the 
size of the building. It stood on Putnam Avenue near 
the Second Congregational Church, and was used during 
the Revolutionary War as a guard house for the Green- 



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Town Hall — First Society — School Fund 87 

wich Artillery Company. It was burned during Tryon's 
Raid in 1779. 

The First Society of Greenwich, Old Town (now Sound 
Beach), having been without a settled minister for nearly 
nine years, the Associated Pastors of the Churches of Christ 
for this section of Fairfield County on the eighth day of 
May, 1755, presented the following petition to the General 
Assembly : 

On the representation' of the Rev. William Gaylord and 
others of the Associated Pastors of the Churches of Christ in 
the western district in the Coiinty of Fairfield, that the 
Church and Society of Greenwich within said district for 
about nine years past has been and still remains destitute of 
any settled gospel minister and unable of themselves to settle 
and support one among them, and recommending to this 
Assembly the consideration and care of said Society according 
to law in such cases, provided and especially suggesting as an 
expedient therein the annexing of them to the Parish of 
Horseneck. In October of the same year, after hearing 
Nathaniel Peck in relation thereto, a committee consisting of 
Colonel Andrew Burr, Major John Read, and David Row- 
land was appointed to view the state and circumstances of 
each of said parishes, especially as to those disputes that now 
subsist between them, Greenwich, and Horseneck, respecting 
their parochial extension and the levying of ministerial taxes. 
The matter was amicably settled and the two parishes were 
allowed to continue as heretofore. 

A letter from the Rev. Ebenezer Dibble to the Assembly, 
dated March 25, 1762, gives the population of Greenwich, as 
follows : 

2,021 whites, 
52 blacks. 

The Town of Greenwich in 1762 had a school fund, which 
was obtained from the excess of the moneys collected from 
the excise tax, not from the sale of western lands, and the 

' Colonial Records of Connecticut. 



88 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

selectmen were authorized by the General Assembly to 
invest it for the benefit of the schools. It consisted of a 
bond for £158 secured by a mortgage on real property at 
Norwalk, held by a committee appointed by the town, com- 
posed of John Clapp, Silas Betts, and Peter Mead, who were 
instructed to divide the money equally according to the 
design of the Assembly for the use of the schools. The 
minutes of 1 768 contain the following reference to said fund : 

"And whereas there are certain lands conveyed to the 
committee of the Town of Greenwich and to their successors 
by Ezra Knapp of Norwalk, which lands are lying in said 
Norwalk and are designed for the use of schools in Green- 
wich, and as it appears necessary that some proper persons be 
appointed to lease or sell said land for the purpose aforesaid 
for and in behalf of said town and to account for the sales or 
profits thereof," a committee was thereupon appointed for 
the purpose aforesaid. The land in question was thereafter 
conveyed to Epenetus Holmes subject to the above mortgage, 
who had the same transferred to his house and lands in 
Greenwich, together with his sloop, and in 1774, he having 
defaulted in some of the conditions thereof, the town or- 
dered the sale of the aforesaid property, as follows: 

At a town meeting holden in Greenwich on the seven- 
teenth day of October, 1774, the town appointed the present 
selectmen, John Clapp, Bezaleel Brown, John Mackay, John 
Mead, and Peter Mead, its committee, to sell the sloop and 
lands and outlands conveyed to said town by Epenetus 
Holmes; said sale to be accounted for to said town for the 
use of the schools; and the selectmen are appointed to sell 
said house and lands, either together or separate, as may 
best suit ye purchaser or purchasers on the day of the next 
annual town meeting at twelve o'clock, noon, at the town 
house at Horseneck, by way of Public Vendue. 

Early in the year 1768, considerable discussion arose as to 
the selection of a county seat for the County of Fairfield, and 
at a special town meeting legally warned and holden on the 
fifth day of May, 1768, it was voted that it woiild, in con- 



Nonvalk Proposed as a County Seat 89 

junction with the Town of Norwalk in the County of Fair- 
field, send its agent to the next ensuing Assembly to prefer a 
memorial to said Assembly, that the court house and jail in 
said County of Fairfield may be built at said Norwalk. In 
October of the same year the following resolution was 
adopted : 

Whereas, the Town of Norwalk, in conjunction with 
several other towns in the County of Fairfield, preferred a 
memorial to the General Assembly, held at New Haven in 
October last, and now lies before said Assembly to be heard 
at the adjournment in January next, praying that the said 
Town of Norwalk may be the head or county town, etc. ; and 
whereas David Bush signed the same as agent for and in 
behalf of said town ; it is therefore now voted and agreed that 
this town allows and approves of said David Bush's signing 
said memorial as agent for this town, and he is hereby fully 
impowered and authorized in the name and behalf of this 
town to appear and prefer said memorial to a final deter- 
mination, and that it is the earnest request and desire of the 
inhabitants of this town that the General Assembly would 
take the matters contained in said memorial unto their wise 
consideration and grant the prayer thereof, and that a copy 
of this vote may be used in the trial' of said memorial in order 
to signify the minds of the inhabitants of this town in the 
premises. 

In 1 771 the question of title to lands now lying within the 
bounds of the State of Pennsylvania was brought before the 
General Assembly at the May Session, and it was then con- 
tended that the "lands west of the Delaware River are well 
contained in the charter granted by King Charles II," and 
a good title thereto was vested in the Colony of Connecticut. 
The claim called "The Susquehanna Case" was formally 
submitted in writing to a committee of lawyers in Great 
Britain, who reported in favor of the Colony of Connecticut. 
Whereupon the General Assembly appointed a committee, 
consisting of Colonel Eliphalet Dyer, Dr. William Samuel 
Johnson, and Jedediah Strong, to confer with William Penn at 
Philadelphia, and, if possible, reach an amicable settlement 



90 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

of the question. Mr. Penn, however, would not yield a 
point in favor of the Colony of Connecticut, and thus the 
matter stood during the Revolutionary War, during which 
time the Colony of Connecticut assumed jurisdiction over 
the territory in dispute. 

The matter was brought before the town at a special 
meeting held on the twenty-first day of March, 1774, at 
which the following action was taken. 

This towne taking into serious consideration the Dis- 
tressed Situation and alarming Prospect that may occur, and 
in all human probability will occur, by entering into a 
Controversy with Mr. Penne and his brothers, as Joint Pro- 
prietors of the Provience of Pennsylvania, for a certain 
claim of lands on or near ye Susquehannah River, claimed by 
a company of purchasers, commonly called ye Susquehannah 
Purchasers, etc., etc., which claim having never yet been 
prosecuted before the King in Council (which we apprehend 
to be the only proper place of Decision). We, the inhabi- 
tants, etc., assembled as above, are of opinion that the 
prosecuting said claim to said lands will be tedious and ex- 
pensive, and of a dangerous tendency to this Colony; not 
only subjecting the Colony considered as such to pay the 
expenses of a litigation of a suit with Mr. Penne, but will or 
may mediately tend to a forfeiture of those invaluable 
privilledges whereof we (as a Colony) are now possessed. 
It is therefore voted by this meeting, that Doct. Amos Mead 
and John Mead, Esq., be and they are hereby appointed to 
go to Middletown in Connecticut on the last Wednesday of 
March instant, and there to confer with the Delegates of the 
other towns in this Colony, what is most proper to be done 
and acted in this most interesting affair. 

A petition was presented to Congress " on the fifth day of 
November, 1781, from the Supreme Executive Council of 
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in regard to the lands 
in dispute, and praying a hearing agreeably to the ninth 
article of the Confederation. In conformity therewith a Con- 
gressional Court was convened at Trenton, New Jersey, on 
the twelfth day of November, 1782, to hear and finally de- 

' See Journals of Congress. 



Claim to Lands in Pennsylvania 91 

termine all matters at issue between the two states, which 
decided "we are unanimously of opinion that the State of 
Connecticut has no right to the land in controversy," and 
that said lands "do of right belong to the State of Penn- 
sylvania." 

Under an act of the General Assembly of the State of 
Connecticut, passed at the May Session, 1786, it ceded to the 
United States its claim to certain western lands, and a com- 
mittee was appointed and authorized to execute a deed 
therefor to the United States. 

The school fund, which many supposed was obtained 
from the sale of western lands sometime after the Revolu- 
tion, was acquired prior to the year 1762. (See School 
Fund, ante.) 



CHAPTER VIII. 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS IN THE MILITIA DURING THE 
COLONIAL PERIOD. 

{From ^'Colonial Records of Connecticut y) 

Austin, Job, May Session, 1760, was commissioned ensign of 
the company or train band in the Parish of Stanwich. 

Banks, Joseph, May Session, 1748, was commissioned ensign 
of the west company or train band at Horseneck in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Banks, Joseph, May Session, 1750, was commissioned 
captain of the west or 2nd company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Bowers, John, April Session, 1690, was commissioned Heu- 
tenant of the train band in the Town of Greenwich. 

Briggs, Daniel, May Session, 1734, was commissioned lieu- 
tenant of the company or train band in the Parish of 
Stanwich. 

Briggs, Daniel, May Session, 1738, was commissioned 
captain of the company or train band in the Parish of 
Stanwich. 

Brown, Bezaleel, November Session, 1774, was commis- 
sioned lieutenant of the middle company or train band 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

Brown, Edmund, October Session, 1770, was commissioned 
ensign of the middlemost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Brown, Nehemiah, May Session, 1767, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the westermost company or train band in 
the Town of Greenwich. 

Brown, Roger, May Session, 1769, was commissioned en- 
sign of the westermost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

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Officers in the Militia 93 

Brown, Roger, May Session, 1770, was commissioned 

lieutenant of the westermost company or train band 

in the Town of Greenwich. 
Brush, Edward, October Session, 1759, was commissioned 

captain of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Close, Jonathan, May Session, 1745, was commissioned 

ensign of the east company or train band in the Town 

of Greenwich. 
Close, Solomon, May Session, 1738, was commissioned 

lieutenant of the company or train band in the Town 

of Greenwich. 
CoNKLiN, Timothy, May Session, 1734, was commissioned 

ensign of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Dibble, George, May Session, 1734, was commissioned 

captain of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Dibble, Jonathan, May Session, 1743, was commissioned 

ensign of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Dibble, Jonathan, May Session, 1747, was commissioned 

lieutenant of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Ferris, James, April Session, 1690, was commissioned en- 
sign of the train band in the Town of Greenwich. 
Ferris, John, May Session, 1738, was commissioned lieu- 
tenant of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Ferris, John, October Session, 1742, was commissioned 

captain of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Ferris, Joshua, May Session, 1729, was commissioned en- 
sign of the east company or train band in the Town of 

Greenwich. 
Ferris, Samuel, May Session, 1731, was commissioned 

ensign of the east company or train band in the Town 

of Greenwich. 
Ferris, Samuel, May Session, 1752, was commissioned 

lieutenant of the ist company or train band in the Town 

of Greenwich, 
Finch, Samuel, October Session, 1720, was commissioned 

lieutenant of the east company or train band in the 

Town of Greenwich. 



94 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Galpin, Joseph, May Session, 1769, was commissioned 
captain of the westermost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 
Green, Reuben, October Session, 1749, was commissioned 
Heutenant of the westermost company or train band in 
the Town of Greenwich. 
Hobby, Joseph, May Session, 1754, was commissioned en- 
sign of the 2nd company or train band at Horseneck in 
the Town of Greenwich. 
Hobby, Joseph, October Session, 1760, was commissioned 
captain of the middlemost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 
HoiT, David, October Session, 1759, was commissioned 
Heutenant of the company or train band in the Parish of 
Stanwich. 
HoiT, David, May Session, 1773, was commissioned captain 
of the company or train band in the Parish of Stanwich. 
Holmes, Isaac, May Session, 1745, was commissioned heu- 
tenant of the west company or train band at Horseneck 
in the Town of Greenwich. 
Holmes, Isaac, October Session, 1767, was commissioned 
ensign of the new created company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 
Holmes, Reuben, October Session, 1760, was commissioned 
ensign of the middlemost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 
Holmes, Reuben, October Session, 1770, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the middlemost company or train band in 
the Town of Greenwich. 
Ingersoll, Simon, May Session, 1773, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the company or train band in the Parish of 
Stanwich. 
Knapp, Caleb, August Session, 1710, was commissioned 
ensign of the company or train band in the Town of 
Greenwich. 
Knapp, Caleb, May Session, 1719, was commissioned 
captain of the company or train band on the west side 
of the Mianus River in the Town of Greenwich, 
Knapp, Israel, May Session, 1743, was commissioned 
captain of the east company or train band at Horseneck 
in the Town of Greenwich. 
Knapp, John, Jr., May Session, 1774, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the new company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 



Officers in the Militia 95 

Knapp, Nehemiah, May Session, 1752, was commissioned 
ensign of the ist company or train band in the Town of 
Greenwich. 

LocKWOOD, David, May Session, 1773, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the east company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

LocKwooD, David, May Session, 1752, was commissioned 
captain of the i st company or train band in the Town of 
Greenwich. 

LocKWOOD, EzEKiEL, May Session, 1751, was commissioned 
ensign of the westermost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

LoCKWOOD, James, May Session, 1762, was commissioned 
ensign of the eastermost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

LoCKWooD, James, October Session, 1764, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the eastermost company or train band in 
the Town of Greenwich. 

LocKwooD, Joseph, October Session, 1764, was commis- 
sioned ensign of the eastermost company or train band 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

LocKwooD, Samuel, Jr., October Session, 1771, was com- 
missioned ensign of the ist company or train band in 
the Town of Greenwich. 

LocKwooD, Timothy, May Session, 1761 was commissioned 
captain of the eastermost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Lyon, John, Jr., May Session, 1719, was commis- 
sioned ensign of the company or train band on the 
west side of the Mianus River in the Town of Green- 
wich. 

Lyon, John, May Session, 1728, was commissioned captain 
of the west company or train band at Horseneck in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Lyon, Jonathan, May Session, 1748, was commissioned 
captain of the west company or train band at Horseneck 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, Abraham, Jr., May Session, 1774, was commissioned 
captain of the middle company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, Benjamin, Jr., May Session, 1758, was commissioned 
ensign of the westermost company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, Benjamin, Jr., October Session, 1767, was commis- 



96 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

sioned lieutenant of the new created company or train 
band in the Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, Caleb, May Session, 1745, was commissioned lieu- 
tenant of the east company or train band in the Town of 
Greenwich. 

Mead, Ebenezer, May Session, 1728, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the east company or train band at Horse- 
neck in the Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, Ebenezer, May Session, 1738, was commissioned 
captain of the company or train band in the Town of 
Greenwich. 

Mead, Ebenezer, Jr., November Session, 1774, was com- 
missioned ensign of the middle company or train band 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, Jabez, May Session, 1745, was commissioned captain 
of the west company or train band at Horseneck in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, John, October Session, 1735, was commissioned 
captain of the west company or train band in the west 
society of the Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, John, October Session, 1757, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the west company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, John, October Session, 1767, was commissioned cap- 
tain of the new created company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, John, November Session, 1774, was commissioned 
major in the 9th Regiment. 

Mead, Matthew, May Session, 1773, was commissioned 
captain of the new company or train band in the Town 
of Greenwich. 

Mead, Samuel, May Session, 1728, was commissioned lieu- 
tenant of the west company or train band at Horseneck 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

Newman, Jonathan, May Session, 1738, was commissioned 
ensign of the company or train band in the Parish of 
Stanwich. 

Palmer, Messenger, May Session, 1762, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the eastermost company or train band in 
the Town of Greenwich. 

Palmer, Messenger, October Session, 1764, was commis- 
sioned captain of the eastermost company or train band 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

Peck, Nathaniel, May Session, 1730, was commissioned 



Officers in the Militia 97 

captain of the company or train band on the east side of 
the Mianus River in the Town of Greenwich. 

Peck, Nathaniel, Jr., October Session 1757, was commis- 
sioned captain of the eastermost company or train band 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

Peck, Samuel, October Session, 1696, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the train band in the Town of Greenwich. 

Peck, Samuel, October Session, 1720, was commissioned 
captain of the east company or train band in the Town 
of Greenwich. 

Reynolds, David, October Session, 1720, was commissioned 
ensign of the east company or train band in the Town of 
Greenwich. 

Reynolds, David, May Session, 1729, was commissioned 
Heutenant of the east company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Reynolds, James, May Session, 1719, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the company or train band on the west side 
of the Mianus River in the Town of Greenwich. 

Reynolds, James, May Session, 1728, was commissioned 
captain of the east company or train band at Horseneck 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

Reynolds, James, Jr., October Session, 1739, was commis- 
sioned ensign of the ist company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

(The officers of the 9th Regiment were also com- 
missioned at this session. The train bands in the 
Towns of Greenwich and Stamford were a part of this 
regiment.) 

Reynolds, Jonathan, May Session, 1728, was commis- 
sioned ensign of the east company or train band at 
Horseneck in the Town of Greenwich. 

Reynolds, Joseph, May Session, 1728, was commissioned 
ensign of the west company or train band at Horseneck 
in the Town of Greenwich. 

Reynolds, Timothy, October Session, 1769, was commis- 
sioned ensign of the ist company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Reynolds, Timothy, October Session, 1771, was commis- 
sioned lieutenant of the ist company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

RUNDLE, Eli, October Session, 1760, was commissioned 
lieutenant of the middlemost company or train band 
in the Town of Greenwich. 



98 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

RuNDLE, Eli, October Session, 1770, was commissioned cap- 
tain of the middlemost company or train band in the 

Town of Greenwich. 
Sherwood, Jabez, May Session, 1750, was commissioned 

ensign of the west or 2nd company or train band in the 

Town of Greenwich. 
Sherwood, Jabez, May Session, 1751, was commissioned 

Heutenant of the westermost company or train band in 

the Town of Greenwich. 
Sherwood, Jabez, October Session, 1757, was commis- 
sioned captain of the west company or train band in the 

Town of Greenwich. 
Sherwood, Jabez, Jr., May Session, 1773, was commis- 
sioned ensign of the westermost company or train band 

in the Town of Greenwich. 
Smith, Charles, May Session, 1757, was commissioned 

ensign of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Smith, Charles, Jr., October Session, 1773, was commis- 
sioned ensign of the company or train band in the Parish 

of Stanwich. 
Smith, Nathan, October Session, 1729, was commissioned 

ensign of the west company or train band in the Town of 

Greenwich. 
Webb, Benjamin, May Session, 1747, was commissioned 

ensign of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
White, Stephen, October Session, 1742, was commissioned 

Heutenant of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
White, Stephen, May Session, 1747, was commissioned 

captain of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 
Wilson, Joseph, May Session, 1765, was commissioned 

captain of the westermost company or train band in 

the Town of Greenwich. 
Wilson, Samuel, October Session, 1735, was commissioned 

Heutenant of the west company or train band in the 

west society of the Town of Greenwich. 
Wood, Joseph, October Session, 1755, was commissioned 

Heutenant of the company or train band in the Parish of 

Stanwich. 



CHAPTER IX. 

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY — ^WASHING- 
TON CONTINENTAL GUARD UNIFORMS OF THE 

CONTINENTAL ARMY. 

In this chapter the author requests the indulgence of the 
readers while he digresses from the subject and presents for 
their consideration an article on the "Organization of the 
Continental Army" heretofore written by him and pubHshed 
in The Connecticut Magazine in 1906. 

The earliest colonial settlers in this coimtry found it 
necessary to form and maintain military organizations for 
their protection from the Indians and other marauders, 
which were designated "train bands" and were called into 
active service at different times during the colonial period as 
the exigencies which confronted the colonists required. 

In Virginia, ^ Captain John Smith commanded the mili- 
tary force for a number of years, and under his efficient 
leadership it proved indispensable to the preservation of 
that colony. 

The military forces of the Plymouth Colony^ were 
commanded by Captain Miles Standish, who, in 1621, 
commanded a strong party of fourteen men against the 
Indians. On the twenty-ninth day of August, 1643, he 
was appointed captain by the General Court, and in 1649 he 
was commandant of the several military companies within 
the Plymouth Colony. 

' History of Virginia, by Robert R. Howison. 
* Plymouth Colony Records. 

99 



loo Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

The Massachusetts Bay Colony ' in 1631 ordered that 
"every man with a musket shall have ready one pound of 
powder, twenty bullets and two fathome of match, and that 
every captain shall traine [drill] his company on Saturday in 
every week. General training days once a month at one 
o'clock in the afternoon." In 1637, general training days 
were reduced to eight times in a year. In 1636, the General 
Court held at Boston ordered that the military companies 
be divided into three regiments; that all freemen be allowed 
to vote for officers of a train band; and in 1645 ordered that 
the chief commander of every company be authorized to 
appoint and make choice of thirty soldiers of their companies 
in every hundred, "who shall be ready at halfe an hour's 
warning upon any service they shall be put upon by their 
chief military officer." The organization of these emer- 
gency men was continued for generations, and later they 
became the famous minute-men of the Revolutionary 
War. In 1642, provisions were made for fines and punish- 
ments for disorderly soldiers, and in 1648 arrangements 
were made for regimental drills and a troop of horse was 
organized. 

The Connecticut and New Haven Colonies ^ likewise 
organized military companies, or "train bands," as they 
were called, and in 1636 ordered "that every plantacon 
shall traine once in every month and if upon complaints of 
their military officer, it appears that there bee divers very 
unskillfull, the saide plantacon may appoint the officer to 
traine [drill] oftener the saide unskillfull. And that the 
saide military officer take view of their several arms whether 
they be serviceable or noe. And for default of every soul- 
diers absent the absent to paye five shillings for every tyme 
without lawful excuse within two days after tender to the 
commissioner, or one of them in the saide plantacon. And 
for every default in arms upon warnings to them by the 
saide officer to amend by the tyme appointed one shilling 

' Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 
' Colonial Records of Connecticut. 



Organization of the Continental Army loi 

every tyme. And where arms are wholly wanting to be 
bounde over to answer it at the next corte. " 

Captain Mason, in 1637, was appointed a pubHc miH- 
tary officer of the plantations of Connecticut to train "the 
military men thereof in each plantacon according to the days 
appointed and shall have £40 per annum to be paid oute of 
the Treasury quarterly. The pay to begine from the day of 
the date hereof, to traine the saide military men in every 
plantacon tenn days in every yeare, soe as it be not in July 
or August, giving a weekes warning beforehand. " All persons 
to bear arms that are above the age of sixteen years, except 
those exempted. A magazine of powder and shot to be kept 
in every plantation for the supply of the military men, and 
every military man is to have continually in his house in 
readiness "halfe a pounde of good powder, two pounds of 
bullets sutable to his peece, one pounde of match, if his peece 
be a match-locke, and whosoever failes of his halfe pounde 
of powder and two pounds of bullets and match to pay five 
shillings for every tyme that is wanting." Later training 
days in the plantations of Connecticut were reduced to six 
times in the year, and the General Assembly enacted that 
"there shall be in each Plantation within this Jurisdic- 
tion, every year at least six Training days, or days of 
public military exercise to teach and instruct all the males 
above sixteen years of age in the comely handling, and ready 
use of their arms, in all postures of war, to understand and 
attend all words of command." 

An extract from the report of the governor of Con- 
necticut to the home government, dated the fifteenth day of 
July, 1680, reads as follows: 

"For the present we have but one troope settled, which 
consist of about sixty horse, yet we are upon raysing three 
troopes more, one in each county of about forty horses in 
each troope. Our other forces are Trained Bands. There 
is a major in each county, who commands the militia 
of that county under the governor for the time being, 
who is the General of all the forces within our Colony. 



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The whole amount to 2507. The names of the several 
counties are : 

Hartford County where are about 835 trained soldiers 

New Haven " " " " 623 

New London " " " " 509 " 

Fairfield " " " " 540 " 



2,507 



"Our horsemen are armed with pistoUs and carbines. 
The foot soldiers with musket and pike. For the present in 
our late warrs with the Indians, we found dragoones to be 
most usefull and therefore improved about three hundred of 
these in the service to good success. In 1689 our numbers 
were 2507." 

Governor Trumbull's Report to His Majesty's Secretary 
of State, dated October, 1774, shows the number on the 
militia rolls to be 26,260, "all male persons from sixteen years 
of age to forty-five bear arms, the trained bands in each 
town attend four days in the year for instruction in military 
discipline. There are eighteen regiments with a troop of 
horse to each, and to some two troops; each regiment attends 
regimental exercise once in four years." In March, 1775, 
the number of regiments of foot in Connecticut were twenty- 
two, not including troop of horse, light dragoons, artillery, or 
independent companies. 

In Rhode Island' practically the same military or- 
ganizations existed, and in 1640, training days were eight 
times in a year, and at the second beat of the drum all men 
allowed and assigned to bear arms were to make their per- 
sonal appearance completely armed to attend their colors by 
eight o'clock in the forenoon ; also two general musters in each 
year were provided for in addition. Training days in 1745 
were reduced to twice a year, ^ but the two general muster 
days in each year were continued, and later a review 
was had of each regiment or battalion twice a year and 

' Colonial Records of Rhode Island. 

* Laws of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 



Organization of the Continental Army 103 

a general muster and review of each brigade once in two 
years. 

The first confederation of the New England Colonies 
took place as early as 1643, and at a meeting of its commis- 
sioners in 1653,' who were at that time in session at Boston, 
after having "considered what nimiber of souldiers might be 
Requisite, if God called the Collonies to make warr against 
the Dutch, concluded that five hundred men for the first 
expedition should bee the number out of the four juris- 
dictions, " and apportioned that number to the several 
colonies, as follows: 

Massachusetts Bay 333 

Plymouth 60 

Connecticut 65 

New Haven 42 

and Captain John Leverett of Boston was selected as 
commander-in-chief of the forces to be so raised. 

A few years after this, in 1662, the Connecticut and New 
Haven Colonies were united under one government, and the 
Massachusetts Bay and the Plymouth Colonies united in 
1692. 

The militia in the City of New York* in 1678 were formed 
into companies of one hundred men each, and although but 
indifferently provided with firearms, and those of all sizes and 
patterns, they were drilled and rendered excellent marksmen 
by continual practice in firing at a mark. In December, 
1772, the governor of the Province of New York held a 
general review in the fields of seven independent companies 
of the militia formed into a battalion in the following order: 

The grenadiers, 

Two companies of the Governor's guard, 

The rangers. 

The Germans, 

One of the companies of artillery, and 

One company of the light infantry. 

' Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England. 
' Memorial History of the City of New York. 



104 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

The review was witnessed by " a splendid assembly of the 
principal ladies and gentlemen." After the review the 
officers were entertained by the governor, who wrote to Lord 
Dartmouth, stating that "it was the most brilliant military 
review that ever was had within His Majesty's American 
dominions. " In June, 1773, the governor of the Province of 
New York forwarded to the home government an abstract of 
the state of the militia in the Province of New York, by 
which it appears that there were twenty-six regiments of foot 
and eleven troop of light horse, of which one regiment and 
one troop were in New York County. 

The Pennsylvania militia' was organized and trained 
along the same lines as were the other colonies. In 1775, 
it was organized into battalions, and on the nineteenth day 
of August of that year consisted of fifty- three battalions, and 
in 1776 some of these battalions were composed of eight 
companies. 

George Washington received his early military training 
in the Virginia militia. In 1 751, at the age of nineteen 
years, he was appointed adjutant of the militia, and in 1753 
he was made commander of the Northern Military District 
of Virginia, and in 1755 he was commissioned commander- 
in-chief of all the Virginia militia. 

It will thus be seen that the training in arms and the 
preparation against surprise and attack have been trans- 
mitted from generation to generation, from the days of 
Captain John Smith and Captain Miles Standish, and that 
as the settlements increased and the population multiplied 
the military forces increased in equal ratio, which were under 
the immediate supervision of the various Colonial General 
Courts, the Legislature, or the governor of the colony. The 
company officers, who must be freemen, were elected by the 
freemen of the train band to which they belonged. Every 
freeman was compelled to serve in the militia, and their 
names presented to the General Court, or Legislature, and if 
such elections were confirmed commissions were issued 

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Organization of the Continental Army 105 

signed by the governor and under the seal of the colony, 
and forwarded to the respective officers. 

Company drills were held at irregular periods and at 
such times and places as the commanding officer might desig- 
nate, and should not be confused with training days, or 
muster days, which were held in the fields and at the times 
prescribed by the General Court, or Legislature. In Massa- 
chusetts, the minute-men, which were picked men from the 
train bands, during the latter part of 1774 and the early part 
of 1775, were "disciplined three times a week and oftener as 
opportunity might offer." 

Training days, of which there were from two to six during 
the year, were, in a military sense, the graduating exercises of 
a finished course of instruction in company drills. Assembly 
was sounded in some of the colonies at eight o'clock in the 
forenoon, and in others at one o'clock in the afternoon, when 
the companies were formed, roll called, and the militia exer- 
cised in the manual of arms and marching in close order. 
This was followed by a review and inspection by the colonial 
officers, then target practice and firing by squads. After 
this the forces were divided and manoeuvred in extended 
order and finally ended the day by participating in a sham 
battle. The various state military camps now take the 
place of the colonial training days. 

On muster days every freeman in the colony between the 
ages prescribed for military duty, except those exempted, 
was compelled to be present and be inspected, or examined, 
as to his fitness for military duty, and if he passed the 
necessary qualifications was mustered into the militia in his 
respective district and required to attend company drill and 
training days. 

From these different train bands there were principally 
recruited the quota of soldiers which the several colonies 
were called upon from time to time to furnish in the various 
wars in which the home government was engaged during the 
colonial period. The last and most important colonial war, 
so far as the colonies were concerned, was the French and 



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Indian War, 1754 to 1764, during which the Virginia militia 
was commanded by George Washington, It might be well 
to state here that out of twenty-three American major- 
generals of the Revolutionary War, the majority of them 
(twelve) had served with distinction as commissioned officers 
in the French and Indian War, and several of the others as 
Indian fighters. 

Washington's letters^ during his service in the first 
Continental Congress held at Philadelphia in September, 
1774, show that he was under no delusion as to the outcome 
of the taxation struggle, and that he expected war, and after 
its adjournment he was actively engaged in perfecting the 
militia of Virginia. 

The first session of the Massachusetts Provincial Con- 
gress^ was held at Salem on the seventh day of October, 1774, 
and after being temporarily organized adjourned to the 
eleventh day of October, 1774, to meet at the court-house at 
Concord, and as the improvement of the militia was an ob- 
ject of importance, arrangements were made for increasing 
the quantity of warlike stores and the organization of an 
army, and at the session held on the tenth day of December, 
1774, the several towns and districts in the province were 
advised to "see that each of the minute-men not already 
provided therewith should be immediately equipped with 
an effective firearm, bayonet, pouch, knapsack and thirty 
rounds of cartridge and balls." 

The records of the Committee of Safety and Supplies show 
that in accordance with the resolution of October, 1774, 
authorizing the collection of military stores, that various 
stores, arms, and ammtmition were being collected and stored 
at Concord. To seize those stores Lieutenant Colonel 
Francis Smith, with a detail of British regulars, consisting 
of about eight hundred men, embarked from the Boston 
Common at ten o'clock Tuesday night on the eighteenth day 
of April, 1775, crossed the Charles River, and began the 
march, which was to bring on the Revolutionary War. He 

' Encydopcedia Britannica. ^ Barry's History of Massachusetts. 



Organization of the Continental Army 107 

met and dispersed the forewarned minute-men at Lexington 
at five o'clock on the morning of the nineteenth day of April, 
1775, marched on to Concord, destroyed the stores, and 
commenced his return. 

"You know the rest, in books you have read. 
How the British regulars fired and fled, 
How the farmers gave them ball for ball. 
From behind each fence and farmyard wall; 
Chasing the red coats down the lane. 
Then crossing the fields to merge again 
Under the trees at the turn of the road, 
And only pausing to fire and load." 

At length, about sunset, almost on a run the British 
reached Charlestown Common, where they were sheltered by 
the guns from the ships. The pursuit stopped and the 
colonial officers held a consultation. A guard was formed, 
sentinels posted, and detachments, were sent out to watch 
the enemy. The remaining provincial forces consisting of 
minute-men and train bands encamped around Boston. 

Soon after this the men encamped around Boston were 
asked by the Committee of Safety, which was the Executive 
Committee of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, ' to 
enHst until the end of the year, or for a shorter period; also a 
vigorous circular letter, dated the twentieth day of April, 
1775, was sent to the neighboring towns urging the organi- 
zation of an army, and on the twenty- third day of April, 1775. 
the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts decided that an 
army of 30,000 men be immediately raised and that 13,000 be 
raised from Massachusetts. Committees were sent to the 
Congress of New Hampshire at Exeter and to the govern- 
ments of Rhode Island and Connecticut to inform them of 
those resolutions and urge the furnishing of men in the same 
proportions. 

So thorough had the work of organization been accom- 
plished in the colonies during the years 1773, 1774, and the 

' Barry's History of Massachusetts. 



io8 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

early part of 1775, that an appeal for men when the Siege of 
Boston commenced was immediately successful and a force 
of from 20,000 to 40,000 men, consisting of minute-men and 
train bands was soon raised. "Throughout' the colonies a 
network of local committees controlling militia companies 
and post-riders, formed in each colony at the suggestion of 
the Virginia House of Burgesses in March, 1773, watched the 
approaching storm, tested the loyalty of those who professed 
to welcome it and guided the popular indignation, and when 
the Battle of Lexington came, the colonies were as well 
prepared for war as the poor dependencies of a powerful 
nation could be, " 

The forces besieging Boston were temporarily under the 
command of General Artemas Ward, who received his com- 
mission from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts as 
commander-in-chief on the nineteenth day of May, 1775. 
A short time prior to this, however, the Provincial Congress 
of Massachusetts sent a communication to the Continental 
Congress, then in session at Philadelphia, offering the 
direction of the forces to that body and suggesting, as had 
been proposed by General Ward, the organization of an army 
on the following basis : 

1. A General-in-Chief. 

2. Troops to be enlisted for the war. 

3. Provisions to be made for the support of the families 
of soldiers. 

4. That a loan should be negotiated for the equipment 
and support of the body, which should be called "The 
American Continental Army. ' ' 

5. That the volunteers then in the field before Boston 
were, as far as practicable, to be re-enlisted, and a special 
light infantry corps, consisting of six companies of "expert 
riflemen" from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, were 
also to be enlisted. 

On the fourteenth day of June, 1775, a system of rules 
and articles of war were prescribed by the Continental 

' The Private Soldier under Washinoton. 



Organization of the Continental Army 109 

Congress, which also resolved that six companies of expert 
riflemen be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Mary- 
land, and two in Virginia, to re-enforce the army near Boston. 
On the following day, June 15, 1775, the Continental 
Congress announced the selection of George Washington as 
general and commander-in-chief of the united colonies and 
of all the forces now raised or to be raised by them. 

The term, "Continental Army," first officially appears 
upon the printed records' of the Continental Congress in the 
summary of the proceedings for the fourteenth day of June, 
1775. where the form of enlistment to be subscribed by com- 
panies of riflemen is given. It was to be an enlistment into 
the "American Continental Army." On the same day a 
committee of five was appointed to prepare rules and regu- 
lations for the government of this prospective army, which 
were reported and adopted on the thirtieth day of June, 1775. 

For the year 1775 no Continental Army was in the first 
instance organized as such by the Continental Congress, and 
as the colonies were mustering their train bands and minute- 
men around Boston and Ticonderoga after the Lexington 
alarm, and as they were already in the field as good material 
for the nucleus of such an army, the Continental Congress 
adopted them as the Continental Army, but troops joining 
later were generaly recruited on the Continental basis. 
After the year 1775, and for the succeeding years of the war, 
the Continental Congress took the initiative and raised 
troops for the common army under its own regulations 
respecting pay, subsistence, and term of enlistment. The 
army, however, as will appear, was organized and reorganized 
several times during the Revolutionary War, and for various 
terms. These Continentals were the "regulars" of the 
Revolution. They formed the main army in the field and 
were the chief dependence of the revolutionary cause. All 
other troops raised during the war were either state troops or 
militia, and were to act as reinforcements of this army, or to 
relieve it by serving in alarms at different points. 

' Record of Connecticut men in the Revolution. 



no Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

General Washington arrived in camp at Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, on the third day of July, 1775, and the pro- 
vincial forces having accepted his leadership and the regula- 
tion of the Continental Congress, the entire force consisting 
of about 14,500 men were placed upon a Continental es- 
tablishment. This new relation was officially announced 
by the commander-in-chief in general orders, dated Head- 
quarters, Cambridge, July 4, 1775, as follows: 

"The Continental Congress having now taken all the 
Troops of the several Colonies, which have been raised, or 
which may be hereafter raised, for the support and defence of 
the Liberties of America into their Pay and Service, they are 
now the Troops of the United Provinces of North America; 
and it is to be hoped that all Distinction of Colonies will be 
laid aside so that the one and the same spirit may animate 
the whole, and the only contest be, who will render on this 
great and trying occasion the most essential Service to the 
great and common cause in which we are engaged. " 

After the campaign of 1775, the army was reorganized for 
1776. It was not, however, until the reorganization of the 
Continental Army for 1777, that Congress realized that the 
contest could not be successfully carried on with troops en- 
listed for short terms. The need of a permanent disciplined 
army to cope with the British "regulars" was recognized as 
urgent. Congress, accordingly, by resolutions of the six- 
teenth and twentieth days of September, and the eighth day 
of October, 1776, provided for such a body. The army was 
proportioned among the States according to their population, 
as follows : 

Massachusetts 15 regiments 

Virginia 15 

Pennsylvania 12 

New York 4 

Maryland 8 

Connecticut 8 

and the rest in like ratio. 



Washington Continental Guard in 

As a body they formed the Continental Army, and the 
regiments of each State formed a subdivision by themselves. 
Each State quota thus became a "Line Regiment" in itself, 
which was designated by the State's name, as the "New 
York Line, " "Connecticut Line, " etc., each being a distinct 
body commanded by the officers from its own State and cared 
for by its own state as well as by Congress. Inspired by a 
common cause and welded into a homogeneous body under 
the leadership of General Washington, it was these State 
"Lines," facing the enemy as a single "Continental Army" 
that were to bear the burden of the war for the next six years 
and bring it to a successful close. 

The Washington Continental Guard, ' also known as the 
"Washington Life Guard," "Captain Gibbs' Guard," and 
the "Commander-in-Chief's Guard," was organized on the 
twelfth day of March, 1 776, a few days before the termination 
of the siege of Boston, pursuant to the following order: 

Headquarters, Cambridge, ^ 
March 11, 1776, 
The General is desirous of selecting a particular number 
of men as a guard for himself and baggage. The colonel, or 
commanding officer, of each of the established regiments, 
the artillery and riflemen excepted, will furnish him four, 
that the number wanted may be chosen out of them. His 
Excellency depends upon the colonels for good men, such as 
can be recommended for their sobriety, honesty and good 
behavior. He wishes them to be from five feet eight inches 
to five feet ten inches, handsomely and well made, and as 
there is nothing, in his eyes, more desirable than cleanliness 
in a soldier, he desires that particular attention may be made 
in the choice of such men as are clean and spruce. They are 
to be at headquarters tomorrow precisely at twelve o'clock 
noon, when the number wanted will be fixed upon. The 
General neither wants them with uniforms, nor arms, nor 
does he desire any man to be sent to him that is not perfectly 
willing, or desirous of being of this Guard. They should be 
drilled men. 

' A paper read before the New York Historical Society by Dr. Benson J. 
Lossing and published in the Historical Magazine, May, 1858. 
^ The Commander-in-Chief's Guard. 



112 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

On the following day, March 12, 1776, Caleb Gibbs of 
Massachusetts was commissioned Captain of the Guard, 
which consisted of a major's command of one hundred and 
eighty men, to whom was entrusted the details of the 
organization. 

The Guard, like the Continental Army, was organized 
and reorganized several times during the Revolutionary 
War, and on the twenty-second day of April, 1777, the 
commander-in-chief sent the following letter to Captain 
Gibbs: 

Morristown, April 22, 1777. 
Captain Gibbs. 
Dear Sir: 

I forgot before you left this place to desire you to pro- 
vide clothing for the men that are to compose my Guard. 
. . . Provide for four sergeants, four corporals, a drum 
and fife and fifty rank and file. If blue and buff can be had, 
I should prefer that uniform, as it is the one I wear myself. 
I shall get men from five feet nine inches to five feet ten 
inches for the Guard; for such sized men, therefore, make 
your clothing. You may get a small round hat, or a cocked 
hat, as you please. . . . 

I am, dear sir, your most obedient, 

George Washington. 

It was the duty of the infantry portion of the Guard to 
guard the headquarters and insure the safekeeping of the 
papers and effects of the commander-in-chief, as well as 
the safety of his person. The mounted portion accompanied 
the commander-in-chief on his marches and in reconnoitring, 
and were employed as patrols, videttes, and bearers of the 
commander-in-chief's orders to various military posts. 

The Continental Congress on the eighth day of Oc- 
tober, 1776, resolved "that for the further encouragement of 
the non-commissioned officers and soldiers, who shall engage 
in the service during the war, a suit of clothes ' be annually 
given to each of said officers and soldiers, to consist for the 
present year of two linen hunting shirts, two pair of overalls, 

^ Uniforms of the United States Army from 1774 to 1889. 



Uniforms of the Continental Army 113 

a leathern or woolen waistcoat with sleeves, one pair of 
breeches, a hat or leather cap, two shirts, two pair of hose and 
two pair of shoes." On the twenty-fifth day of November, 
1779, Congress further resolved, that the following articles 
be delivered as a suit of clothes for the current and every 
succeeding year of their service to the officers of the line and 
staff, entitled by any resolution of Congress to receive the 
same, viz.: "one hat, one watch coat, one body coat, four 
vests, one for winter and three for summer; four pair of 
breeches, two for winter and two for summer; four shirts, 
six pair of stockings, three pair thereof worsted and three of 
thread, and four pair of shoes. " 

On the twenty-third day of March, 1779, Congress by 
resolution "authorized and directed the commander-in- 
chief, according to the circumstances of supplies of clothing, 
to fix and prescribe the uniform, as well as with regard 
to color and facing, as also as to cut and fashion of the 
clothes to be worn by the troops of the respective states 
and regiments — woolen overalls for winter and linen for 
summer." 

In accordance with the above resolution, the following 
general order, dated Headquarters, Moore House, October 2, 
1779, was issued by General Washington. "The following 
are the uniforms that have been determined for the troops of 
these states respectively, so soon as the state of the public 
supplies will permit of their being furnished accordingly; and, 
in the meantime, it is recommended to the officers to en- 
deavor to accommodate their uniforms to the standard, that 
when the men come to be supplied, there may be a proper 
uniformity. " 

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Con- 
necticut : 

Blue faced with white, 

Buttons and linings white. 
New York and New Jersey : 

Blue faced with buff. 

Buttons and linings white. 



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Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia: 

Blue faced with red. 

Buttons and linings white. 
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia: 

Blue faced with blue. 

Buttonholes edged with narrow white lace or tape, 

Buttons and linings white. 
Artillery and Artillery Artificers : 

Blue faced with scarlet. 

Scarlet linings. 

Yellow buttons. 

Yellow bound hats. 

Coats edged with narrow lace or tape and button- 
holes bound with same. 
Light Dragoons: 

The whole blue. 

Faced with white. 

White buttons and linings. 

Headquarters, Short Hills, 
June 1 8, 1780. 
The colonels, lieutenant-colonels and majors, the uni- 
forms of their regiments and two epaulettes. 

The captains, the uniforms of their regiments and an 
epaulette on the left shoulder. 

All officers as will warrant, as commissioned, to wear a 
cockade and side arms, a sword or a genteel bayonet. 

Headquarters, Newburgh, 
May 14, 1782. 
The clothier is, if practicable, to obtain worsted shoul- 
der knots for the non-commissioned officers; the sergeants 
are to be distinguished by one on each shoulder, and the cor- 
porals by one on the right shoulder, and in the meantime it 
is proposed that a piece of white cloth should be substituted 
by way of distinction. 



CHAPTER X. 

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR: EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF 
TOWN MEETINGS — SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTION — IN- 
CIDENTS OF THE REVOLUTION — TORIES — EFFECT OF THE 
REVOLUTION — RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION — 
THE NEW YORK AND BOSTON STAGE LINE — TURNPIKE 
ROADS — TOLL GATE — CONNECTICUT TURNPIKE COMPANY. 

The first reference to the Revolutionary War on the 
town records is to be found in the minutes of a special town 
meeting held on the eleventh day of October, 1774, to take 
action on a letter received from the Honorable Eliphalet Dyer 
and Roger Sherman, Esq., from ye Continental Congress at 
Philadelphia. At this meeting a committee, consisting of 
Dr. Amos Mead, John Mackay, and Jesse Parsons, was ap- 
pointed to draw a set of resolutions and an answer to the 
letter from Congress, and lay the same before the next 
meeting of the town for its approbation. The meeting ad- 
journed to meet on the seventeenth day of October, 1774, 
and at the adjourned meeting the following resolutions were 
adopted : 

This meeting taking into their serious consideration the 
alarming State of American Liberty, do unanimously ap- 
prove of and adopt as the sentiments of the Inhabitants of 
this Town the Resolves of the Honorable House of Repre- 
sentatives of this Colony passed in their session at Hartford 
in May last. 

And Whereas certain acts of the British Parliament have 
appeared since the above resolves were entered into ; Partic- 
ularly an act for altering ye Government of Massachusetts 

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Bay, and another for Establishing the Roman Catholic 
religion in Canada, etc. 

Resolved by this meeting, that these acts are repugnant 
to the free principles of the English Constitution, and in a 
High Degree Dangerous to the Civil and Religious Liberty of 
both British and American Protestant subjects, and that 
notwithstanding the Torrent of False and malicious asper- 
sions poured forth by designing men. We believe and declare 
the contrivers and devisors of these and all such unconsti- 
tutional acts, their dupes and emissaries, to be the only 
enemies to our Gracious Sovereign and the Illustrious House 
of Hanover, that we know of in his Majesty's dominions. 

Resolved, that this meeting hereby approve of the 
Honorable Congress of Delegates from the several American 
Colonies and will acquiesce and abide by their final deter- 
mination. 

Resolved, that as the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 
especially the Town of Boston, is now suffering under the 
Iron Hand of Despotic Power and ministerial influences, it is 
the indispensable duty of this town in imitation of ye noble 
examples set up by most of the Colony to contribute to the 
relief of the oppressed and suffering poor in said Town of 
Boston, and that Messrs. 

David Bush, James Ferris, Joseph Hobby, Jr., 

John Mackay, Nathaniel Mead, Jr., Daniel Merritt, 

Benjamin Mead, Jr., 

be a committee to receive and keep an exact account of all 
donations that shall be given by the inhabitants of this town, 
and transmit the same to the selectmen of the Town of 
Boston, to be by them appropriated for the purpose aforesaid. 

Ordered by this meeting that: Dr. Amos Mead, John 
Mackay and Jesse Parsons, be desired to write to the Hon- 
orable members of Congress for this Colony an answer to 
theirs of the 19th ultimo, inclosing a copy of the present 
doings of this meeting, and transmit another copy thereof 
to the printer at New Haven in order to be published. 

The letter to the honorable members of Congress was as 
follows : 

Gentlemen : 

We acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 19th 
ult., inclosing the Resolutions of the Honorable Congress, 



Revolutionary War 117 

and with the highest gratitude receive the assurance of the 
earhest intelHgence of the proceedings of your Honorable 
Board, as soon as they shall be made public. We have 
called a meeting and communicated to them your letter and 
those proceedings, and do now inclose their resolutions 
thereon. 

We are. Gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servants. 
Amos Mead, John Mackay, Jesse Parsons. 

P. S. Upon enquiry into the present state of the magazine of 
this Town, the inhabitants are much surprised to find that 
the price of that most necessary article for our defence, viz., 
gunpowder, is now doubled, which we are desired to men- 
tion as worthy the notice of your Honorable Board. 
The Honorable: 
Eliphalet Dyer and Roger Sherman, Esqs. 

At the same meeting it was further voted that: 

As the town stock of ammunition wants a supply, there 
be a committee appointed to examine the state of the Town 
stock of powder, lead, etc., and the selectmen are appointed 
a committee for that purpose and to take care to supply 
what is wanting at the expense of the town. 

At the annual town meeting held on the third Monday of 
December, 1774, "The town per vote ordered that a com- 
mittee be chosen according to the nth Article of the As- 
sociation of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia and 
approved by the Honorable House of Representatives of this 
Colony and adopted by this town, and appointed Amos 
Mead, Nehemiah Mead, Titus Mead and John Mackay to 
be a committee for this town to see, so far as in them lye, that 
the articles of said Association be observed. " 

On the eighth day of February, 1775, it was resolved to 
send delegates to attend a County Congress at Fairfield on 
the fourteenth day of February instant, pursuant to a letter 
from the Fairfield Committee agreeable to the Association of 
the Continental Congress entered into and adopted by the 
Honorable House of Representatives of this Colony, and said 
committee to attend on their own expense, and that: Dr. 



ii8 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Amos Mead and John Mackay, be delegates for the pur- 
pose aforesaid. The following Committee of Safety and 
Inspection were also appointed: Benjamin Mead, Jr., 
Bezaleel Brown, and Jeremiah Lockwood. 

At the annual town meeting held on the third Monday of 
December, 1775, the following persons were appointed a 
Committee of Safety and Inspection : 

Colonel John Mead, Roger Brown, 

Samuel Peck, Bezaleel Brown, 

James Ferris, David Wood, 

John Mackay, Major Thomas Hobby, 

Amos Mead, Odle Close, 

Benjamin Mead, Jr., Nathaniel Mead, Jr. 
Nehemiah Mead, 

They, besides their duties as a Vigilance Committee, were 
empowered to appoint two or more from their own number 
to attend the next County Congress should any be called. 
It was also voted: 

That no body of men presume to assemble together and go 
upon any expedition, unless by order of the Honorable the 
Continental Congress, the Honorable the General Assembly, 
the County Congress, or Committee of Safety for this town, 
either of whom are to ascertain the number and direct the 
measures. 

At a special town meeting held on the fifteenth day of 
January, 1776, the town per vote added to its Committee of 
Safety and Inspection, the following persons : 

Israel Knapp, Jr., Messenger Palmer, 

Samuel Seymour, Peter Mead. 

John Hobby, 

In this meeting comes Jesse Hallock and presents 
himself to set up the salt peter works in this town, on en- 
couragement given by Act of the Assembly. 

At a special town meeting held on the twenty-sixth day 
of July, 1776, the death was announced of Jesse Parsons, who 



Revolutionary War 119 

had been Town Clerk and Registrar for sixteen consecutive 
years, and Colonel John Mead was chosen to fill the unex- 
pired term. 

At a special town meeting held on the eleventh day of 
March, 1777, the town voted to send for the six four-pound 
cannon and shot for the same, which had been granted to it 
at the session of the General Assembly held during No- 
vember, 1776. Also the following Committee of Safety and 
Inspection was appointed: 

Josiah Ferris, Thaddeus Mead, 

Robert Peck, Lieutenant Seth Palmer, 

Nehemiah Mead, Gershom Lockwood. 
Captain Matthew Mead, 

At a special town meeting held on the fourteenth day of 
April, 1777, the town by vote made choice of: 

Titus Mead, Enos Lockwood, 

Nehemiah Mead, Roger Brown, 

John Mackay, Daniel Merritt, 

James Ferris, 
to be a committee to inspect into and see that the families of 
those who enter into the Continental Army shall be supplied 
with the necessaries of life at the prices as stated by law ac- 
cording to the Governor's Proclamation. Further, this 
meeting will assist and support the ministers of justice in 
putting into execution the act of the Assembly respecting the 
stating prices. 

At the annual town meeting held on the eighth day of 
December, 1777, the town by vote made choice of: 

John Anderson, Reuben Rundle, 

James Ferris, Samuel Palmer, Jr., 

Nehemiah Mead, David Wood, 

Titus Mead, Roger Brown, 

to be a committee to inspect into and see that the soldiers' 
families were supplied with the necessaries of life and to fur- 
nish clothing, etc., for the soldiers according to law. Also 



120 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

the following Committee of Safety and Inspection were 
appointed : 

Josiah Ferris, Abraham Mead, 

John Anderson, Thaddeus Mead, 

Titus Mead, Gershom Lockwood, Jr., 

Jabez Fitch, Samuel Palmer, Jr. 

During the year 1777, Colonel Roger Enos was dis- 
patched hither with a detachment of Continental troops for 
the defence of the town and parts adjacent thereto. His 
troops were stationed at Mianus, and later at Fort Non- 
sense, which was located in the Town of Stamford on the 
westerly side of the road about a mile north of the Steep 
Hollow (North Mianus) District School House, and was 
built under the direction of General Putnam. Greenwich 
was considered a border town and troops were quartered at 
this fort during the different campaigns to guard the frontier 
and to protect the inhabitants against the incursions of the 
enemy. It was to this fort that General Putnam hastened 
for aid after his narrow escape from the tories at the time of 
Tryon's raid on Greenwich. The Atlas of New York and 
Vicinity, published in 1867, by Beers, Ellis, and Soule, 
shows the location of Fort Nonsense. The foraging of the 
troops under the command of Colonel Enos was so excessive 
that the town at a special meeting, voted: 

Whereas the troops of Colonel Enos' regiment quar- 
tered in this town have committed great outrages upon the 
property of some of the inhabitants of this town, in burning 
rails, cutting young growth of timber, etc.; therefore, it is 
proposed to this meeting, whether they will recommend 
unto the selectmen of this town, to apply to the field officers 
for redress of the aforesaid grievances. The selectmen were 
directed to apply for redress. 

At a special town meeting held on the twelfth day of 
January, 1778, in pursuance of the requisition from his 
Excellency the Governor, of ye fifteenth day of December, 
1777, the introduction to and the Articles of Confedera- 



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tion and Perpetual Union between the States of America, 
were communicated to the inhabitants so that the sense of 
the town might be known thereon. The said articles being 
in said meeting deliberately read and considered were by 
vote accepted and approved. 

It was also voted "that each non-commissioned officer 
and soldier who is draughted and voluntarily serves in this 
two months' expedition, receive a proportionable part of all 
the fines paid in consequence of said draught, and the 
selectmen were authorized to receive the said fines of the 
town treasurer and pay them out accordingly." 

It was also voted "that the artillery men may have the 
town house for a guardhouse, and have liberty to build a 
chimney to it, and that the town will be at the cost of having 
masons for that purpose. " 

The town by vote made choice of Bezaleel Brown to be 
barrackmaster to supply the troops with wood and other 
necessaries. 

At the annual town meeting held on the fourteenth day 
of December, 1778: 

This meeting taking into serious consideration the 
danger and distress of the inhabitants of this town and 
the great loss and damage sustained by many of the good 
citizens thereof, occasioned chiefly by a number of vile 
abandoned wretches, who have gone over to and joined the 
common enemy of the United States of America, against 
the laws of this State and the liberties and privileges of 
the good people thereof; Thereupon, it is resolved by this 
meeting that it is in their opinion dangerous to the safety, 
liberties, peace and good government of this town, that any 
person that hath gone over to and joined, aided, or assisted 
the common enemy of the United States, or taken pro- 
tection under them to remain in this town, or to return 
to it, or ever be capable of obtaining any settlement in it. 
Resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting that the au- 
thority and selectmen take all proper and legal steps to free 
the tov*-n of all such vile miscreants. 

Further the town then voted for Captain Sylvanus Mead 



122 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

to be barrackmaster for the year ensuing. For a Committee 
of Safety and Inspection : 

Sylvanus Mead, Josiah Ferris, 

Isaac Howe, Matthew Mead, 

Reuben Rundle, Edmtmd Mead. 
Abraham Mead, 

For a committee of suppHes for soldiers' famiHes : 

Joseph Hobby, Jr. and Nathaniel Mead, 4th. 
At a special town meeting held on the second day of 
March, 1780, the town made choice of: 

Roger Brown, Gershom Lockwood, Jr., 

Nathaniel Mead, Jr., Captain Odle Close, 

Abraham Husted, Stephen Davis, 

Peter Mead, Jr., Caleb Finch, 

Andrew Marshall, Samuel Lockwood, Jr., 

Robert Peck, Timothy Reynolds, 

Jehiel Mead, Caleb Lyon, Jr., 

Jonathan Coe, Silas Mead, Jr., 
to be inspectors of provision. 

It is proposed whether this meeting is willing that the 
fines that belong to the town and are forfeited to it by 
delinquents that are draughted from the militia, or ordered 
into military service (exclusive of any that may arise in 
consequence of any mistake of any military officer in making 
returns) shall be given equally to the good and faithful 
soldiers that are now in service and shall from time to time 
be in the service till this town shall see fit to determine 
otherwise. Voted in the affirmative. 

Also voted that the captains of the town receive the fines of 
the delinquents for military duty and pay it out to the soldiers. 

The Battle of Lexington on the nineteenth day of April, 
1775, precipitated the crisis which brought on the Revolu- 
tionary War. In response to the call for assistance from the 
Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, Governor Trumbull 
of Connecticut called a special session of the Legislature to 
meet on the twenty -first day of April, 1775, at which session 
it was ordered that six regiments be raised for defence; also 
volunteers from the militia were ordered to march to Boston 



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123 



for its relief. Volunteers were also ordered to march to 
New York to assist in the defence of that important point, 
and among the latter was Captain Abraham Mead's Com- 
pany of Horseneck (Borough of Greenwich), 9th Regiment. 

Mead, Abraham, Captain, ' 

Brown, Bezaleel, ist Lieutenant, 

Lockwood, Samuel, 2nd Lieutenant, 

Sergeants. 

Rich, Rundle, EH, Waring, 

Hobby, Thomas, Jr., Clerk, 
Mead, John, 3rd, Drummer, Pall, John, Fifer. 



Privates. 



Banks, Daniel, 
Betts, Silas, Jr., 
Brown, Nehemiah, Jr., 
Bumstead, John, 
Burley, Isaac, 
Clark, James, 
Conklin, Jacob, 
Crague, John, 
Ferris, James, 
Finch, Caleb, 
Hebbard, Nathaniel, 
Hobby, Jabez Mead, 
Jarman, Charles, 
Jarman, Peter, 
Johnson, Daniel, 
Jordan, William, 
Knapp, Charles, 
Knapp, Joseph, 
Knapp, Peter, 
Knapp, Samuel, 
Knapp, Titus, 
Lane, Cornelius, 
Lyon, Noah, 
Manning, Samuel, 
Mead, Abraham, 3rd, 



Mead, Andrew, 
Mead, Elijah, 
Mead, Enoch, 
Mead, Jeremiah, Jr., I? 
Mead, Jesse, 
Mead, Jonah, 
Mead, William, 
Ogden, Abner, 
Palmer, Jeremiah, 
Palmer, Zebud, 
Parsons, Theodosius, 
Peck, Aaron, 
Peck, Heth, 
Reynolds, Jonathan, 
Rundle, Jesse, 
Shaw, James, 
Sherwood, Elnathan, 
Stud well, Henry, 
Sutton, Benjamin, 
Taylor, Henry, 
Taylor, Zebediah, 
Tharp, John, 
Town, John, 
Travis, Joseph, 
Wilson, Nehemiah. 



' Connecticut in the Revolution. See also Collections of the Connecticut His- 
torical Society, vols. viii. and xii. 



124 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

5TH Regiment, Continental Line, 1775. 

Recruited mainly in Fairfield County. It marched first 
to New York and then to the Northern Department. 

3rd Company. 

Hobby, Thomas, Major, and Captain, 

Brown, Bezaleel, ist Lieutenant, 

Lockwood, Samuel, 2nd Lieutenant, 

Sergeants. 

Hobby, Thomas, Jr., Town, John, 

Rundle, Eli, Waring, Henry. 

Corporals. 

Lockwood, Gershom, Slosen, Gershom, 

Rimdle, Joshua, Tharp, John, 

Rundle, Abram, Drummer, Paul (Pall), John, Fifer, 

deserted. 



Privates. 



Adams, Jonathan, 
Baas, Henry, 
Bates, Ebenezer, 
Bath, Asther, 
Bath, Ebenezer, 
Burley, Isaac, 
Bush, Jabez, 
Canfield, Silas, deserted, 
Carlong, Stephen, deserted, 
Chapman, Titus, 
Conklin, Jacob, 
Cooper, John, 
Crazo, John, 
Dayton, Jonah, 
Denton, Samuel, 
Depue, William, deserted, 
Ferris, James, 
Ferris, Oliver, 
Finch, Jeremiah, 
Fkmey, Ward, 
Forman, Peter, 



Grimsley, William, 
Hibbs, Samuel, deserted, 
Hobby, Jabez, M., 
Holmes, Nathaniel, 
Hubbell, Jehiel, 
Hutchins, Caleb, 
Jarman, Charles, 
Jordon, John, 
Jordon, William, 
Judson, Joseph, 
Kenney, Patrick, 
Knapp, Charles, 
Knapp, Samuel, 
Lasby, Alexander, 
Lawrence, Jonathan, 
Lee, William, 
Lockwood, Elnathan, 
Lockwood, Israel, 
Lockwood, Jared, 
Lockwood, Joseph, 
Lyon, Noah, 



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x^^ 



Manning, Samuel, 
Mead, Reuben, 
Mead, William, 
Merritt, Peter, 
Northoner, Richard, 
Ogden, Abner, 
Palmer, Cornelius, 
Palmer, Nathaniel, 
Palmer, Zebud, 
Peck, Aaron, 
Peck, Daniel, 
Peck, Seth, 
Pelham, Francis, 
Purdy, Abraham, 
Reynolds, Jonathan, 
Robinson, William, 
Rundle, Jeremiah, 
Rundle, Jesse, 
Rundle, John, 
Sackett, William, 
Scofield, Jeoffrey, 
Scott, Timothy, 



Shaw, James, 
Sherwood, Abraham, 
Sherwood, Elnathan, 
Slanter, James, 
Smith, James, 
Smith, Samuel, 
Studwell, Ward, 
Taylor, Henry, 
Taylor, John, 
Taylor, Major, 
Thich(?), Thomas, 
Thinch(?), William, 
Thompson, Archibald, 
Town, Jonathan, 
Town, William, 
Travis, Joseph, 
Webb, Ebenezer, 
Webb, Noah, 
Webster, Thomas, 
Wheaton, Daniel, 
Whelpley, Daniel, 
Wood, Israel. 



In many instances the printed rolls do not contain the 
addresses of the officers and men who served in the Conti- 
nental Army, and it is probable that the names of all the 
officers and men are not included herein; therefore, for 
fuller particulars reference should be made to the printed 
rolls contained in the Record of Connecticut Men in the 
Revolution, and also to vols. viii. arid xii., of the Collections 
of the Connecticut Historical Society. 

State Troops, 1776. 

Raised to re-enforce General Washington in New York. 
The 1st Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade, served on the 
Brooklyn front a few days before and during the Battle of 
Long Island, August 2^, 1776; in the retreat from New York; 
stationed in the City of New York under General Putnam 
and narrowly escaped capture on the retreat from the city 
September 15, 1776; posted on Harlem (Washington) 



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Heights until the Battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776, 
in which it was engaged and suffered some loss. Rolls 
incomplete. 

4th Company. 

Mead, Abraham, Captain. 
Ingersoll, Simon, ist Lieutenant. 
Waring, Henry, 2nd Lieutenant. 
Hobby, Thomas (Jr.), Ensign. 
Names of the men not on printed rolls. 

Bradley's Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade. 

Hobby, Thomas, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Lewis, Isaac, Rev., Chaplain. 

Captain Keeler's Company. 
Mead, Sylvanus, ist Lieutenant. 



KJnapp, Joseph, 



Sergeants. 

Mills, John. 

Corporal. 
Knapp, Titus. 



Privates. 



Brown, Daniel, 
Brown, Jonathan, 
Brown, Nathaniel, 
Brown, Roger, 
Green, Asel, 
Hewsted, John, 
Hewsted, Samuel, 
Hewsted, Thomas, 
Holly, Jabez, 
Hoyt, James, 
Lockwood, David, 
Lockwood, Ely, 
Lockwood, John R., 
Mead, Jeremiah, 
Mead, Uriah, 
Olmstead, Lemuel, 
Peck, Edward, 



Peck, Jeremiah, 
Peck, Theophilus, 
Rundle, Titus, 
Scott, William, 
Smith, Enoch, 
Smith, John, 
Smith, Nathan, 
Smith, Stephen, 
Smith, William, 
Wairing, John, 
Wareing, Ephraim, 
Waring, Henry, 
'f Waring, James, 
Waterbury, William, 
Webb, Phineas, 
Westcott, Daniel, 
Wood, Hezekiah. 



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See official printed rolls for complete list of names. 
The 9TH Regiment, 4TH Brigade, Connecticut Militia, 

comprised the various companies located in the Towns of 
Norwalk, Stamford, and Greenwich. 

Mead, John, Lieutenant-Colonel, promoted to Colonel 
in May, 1777, and to Brigadier-General in May, 1781. 

Belcher, Elisha, M. D.,' Surgeon, April, 1780. 

Part of this regiment, under the command of Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel John Mead, was ordered to New York in 1776; 
took part in the Battle of Long Island, August 2'], 1776; 
was one of the last regiments to leave New York in the 
retreat from that city; posted on Harlem (Washington) 
Heights and remained there until the Battle of White Plains, 
October 28, 1776, in which it was engaged and suffered con- 
siderable loss. 

The first detail from this regiment served during part of 
the months of August and September, 1776. 

The second detail, some during October, November, and 
December, 1776, and January, 1777, and others November 
and December, 1776, and January, 1777. 

First Detail. 

Regimental Officers. 

V Mead, John, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding. 

Mead, Abraham, Sergeant-Major. 

Mead, John, 3rd, Drum-Major. 

Mead, Enoch, Colonel's Clerk. 

Lyon, Caleb, Armorer. 

Captain James Green's Company. 
Green, James, Captain, of Horseneck. 

Sergeants. 

Holmes, Ebenezer, Mosher, Abel, 

Knapp, Jonah, Mead, David, Drummer. 

' See Year Book of the Sons of the Revolution in the Stale of New York. 



128 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Corporals. 
Jarman, Peter, Mead, Halsey. 

Privates. 

Brown, David, Lockwood, Reuben, 

Brundage, Charles, Lyon, Joseph, 

Carpenter, Andrew, Mead, Jesse, 

Clemmans, James, Merritt, James, 

Coe, Reuben, Palmer, Robert, 

Dupue, Abraham, Peck, David, 

Green, Benjamin, Sherwood, Daniel, 

Holmes, Enoch, Sherwood, EUithan, 

Knapp, Shubal, Sutton, Benjamin, 

Knapp, Solomon, Taylor, Zebediah, 

Knapp, Titus, Weeks, John, 

Korrel (?), William, Wood, Joseph. 

Captain Abraham Mead's Company. 
Captain Abraham Mead with a detail of soldiers was at 
this time in the ist Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade, which 
had been raised to re-enforce General Washington in New 
York, so the command of the company devolved on: 

Close, Odle, Lieutenant, of Horseneck. 
Marshall, Sylvanus, Ensign. 

Sergeants. 

Mead, Nathaniel, Rundle, Eli, 

Peck, Henry, Sackett, Justus. 

Peck, Benjamin, Clerk. 

Corporals. 

Marshall, Gilbert, Marshall, Isaac, 

Seymour, Drake, Drummer, Mead, Daniel, Fifer. 

Privates. 

Brown, John, Clark, James, 

Brown, Thomas, Close, Samuel, 

Bush, Bartholemew, Day, Elias, 

Bush, Jabez, Denton, Humphrey , Jr. , 

Bush, Justus, Ferris, Caleb, 



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129 



Ferris, Oliver, 
Finch, Timothy, 
Hitchcock, Thomas, 
Hobby, MiUs, 
Hubbell, Jehiel, 
Johnston, Abraham, 
Johnston, James, 
Johnston, Thomas, 
Johnston, WilHam, Jr., 
Lockwood, Gershom, 
Lyon, Amos, 
Lyon, Job, 
Mead, Andrew, 
Mead, Charles, 
Mead, David, 



Mead, Epenetus, 
Mead, Jonah, 
Mead, Lockwood, 
Mead, Richard, 
Mead, Solomon, 
Palmer, Nathaniel, 
Reynolds, Ambrose, 
Reynolds, Joseph, 
Rundle, Nathaniel, Jr., 
Rundle, Shubal, 
Rundle, Solomon, 
Studwell, Henry, 
Wilmott, Francis, 
Wilson, Nehemiah, 



The following individuals were returned as having 
deserted at New York in August, 1776. 



Banks, David, 
Finch, Caleb, 



Husted, Peter, 
Knapp, Ezekiel, 



Lane, Abraham, 
Wilmot, Francis. 



It will, however, be noted that some of these men re- 
entered the service and should have been returned only as 
"missing," instead of "deserted." 

Captain Matthew Mead's Company. 

Mead, Matthew, Captain, of Horseneck. 

Knapp, John, Lieutenant. 

How, Isaac, Ensign. 



Banks, Joseph, 
Husted, Abraham, 
Mead, Jehiel, 



Ask, Samuel, 
Banks, Joshua, 
Banks, Obadiah, Jr., 
Darrow, Daniel, 
Finch, WiUiam, 
Hibbard, John, 



Sergeants. 

Mead, Peter, 
Palmer, Samuel, 
Hibbard, Joseph, Fifer. 



Privates. 



Hobby, Hezekiah, 
Knapp, Neasor, 
Knapp, Stephen, 
Mead, EU, 
Mead, Esbon, 
Mead, Henry, 



130 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Mead, Henry, Jr., 
Mead, Jasper, 
Mead, Jonathan, 
Mead, Joseph, 
Mead, Nemiah, Jr., 
Mead, Nathaniel, 3rd, 
Mead, Obadiah, 
Mead, Silas, Jr., 
Mead, Zaccheus, 
Merritt, Daniel, 



Mills, Samuel, Jr., 
Ogden, Abner, 
Ogden, John, 
Peck, Isaac, Jr., 
Peck, Israel, 
Purdy, Daniel, 
Sackett, John, 
Sherwood, Oliver, 
Townsend, Coles. 



Captain George Peck's Company. 

Peck, George, Captain, of Greenwich, Old Town. 

Palmer, Seth, Lieutenant, 

Peck, Robert, Ensign. 



Sergeants. 



Ferris, Samuel, 
Knapp, Joseph, 
Palmer, Johnard, 



Peck, Thomas, 
Whelpley, Darling 



Corporals. 

Finch, Jeremiah, Lockwood, Millington, 

KJnapp, Charles, Palmer, Zabud, ?^" 

Lockwood, Jacob, Drummer, Reynolds, David, Fifer. 



Privates. 



Ekner, Jeremiah, 
Ferris, James, 2nd, 
Ferris, Jeduthan, 
Ferris, Joshua, 
Ferris, Nathaniel, 
Ferris, Solomon, 
Ferris, Stephen, 
Howe, Ebenezer, 
Jessup, Sylvanus, 
Knapp, Jeremiah, 
Knapp, Titus, 
Lockwood, Caleb, 



Lockwood, Charles, 
Lockwood, John, 
Lockwood, Philip, 
Mead, Reuben, 
Mosher, James, 
Palmer, Nathan, 
Peck, Ebenezer, 
Peck, Isaac, 
Peck, Moses, 
Peck, Samuel, 3rd, 
Peck, William, 
Reynolds, Daniel. 



Captain David Haifs Company. 
Smith, Charles, Lieutenant, commanding, of Stanwich. 



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131 



Sergeants. 

Ferris, Nathaniel, Reynolds, Nathaniel, 

Holly, Abraham, Smith, David. 

Moe, James, Clerk. 

Corporals. 

Chapman, Jeremiah, Smith, Nehemiah, 

Pastilo, Jehiel, Weed, or Webb, Nathaniel, 

Hobby, David, Drummer, Smith, Stephen, Fifer. 



Privates. 



^ Austin, John, 
Austin, Nathaniel, 
Austin, Samuel, 
Banks, David, 
Briggs, Caleb, 
Briggs, Nathaniel, 
Brown, Titus, 
Close, Joseph, 
Davis, Abraham, 
Denton, Peter, 
Denton, Solomon, 
Ferris, Eliphalet, 
i- Finch, Ezekiel, Jr., 
Finch, Jonathan, 
Finch, Seth, 
Finch, Silas, 
Halt, Frederick, 
Halt, Jonathan, 
Hobby, Henry, 
Hobby, James, 
Howe, Sylvanus 
Hubbard, Henry, 
Husted, Benjamin, Jr., 
Husted, Nathaniel, 
Ingersoll, Joseph, 
Ingersoll, Nathaniel, 
June, Abner, 
June, Nathaniel, 

Second Detail. 

After the Battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776, the 
Assembly ordered the 9th, loth, 13th, and 1 6th Regiments to 



June, Silas, 
June, Stephen, 
Knapp, Isaac, 
Lockwood, Azariah, 
Lockwood, James, 
Lockwood, Moses, 
Mead, Abel, 
Mead, Elkanah, 
Mead, Jacob, 
Mead, Joseph, 
Mead, Stephen, 
Newman, Ezra, 
Newman, Israel, 
Newman, Shubal, 
Palmer, Silas, 
Reynolds, Ezekiel, 
Reynolds, James, 
Rundle, Jep, 
Scofield, James, 
Sherwood, James, 
Smith, Joshua, 
Studwell, Anthony, 
Waring, Abraham, 
Waring, Jesse, 
Waring, Joseph, 
Weed, or Webb, Noah, 
White, Libbeus. 



132 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

march to the Westchester border and place themselves under 
the command of General Wooster. Later the State Regi- 
ments under the command of Colonel Enos and Colonel 
Whiting reheved them. The officers and men were not all 
the same as has previously been given, and so the new rolls 
are given, as follows (Oct. 1776-Jan. 1777): 

Regimental Officers. 

Mead, John, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding. 

Lockwood, Gershom, Sergeant-Major. 

Hubbell, Jehiel, Quartermaster-Sergeant. 

Mead, John, 3rd, Drum-Major. 

Mead, Enoch, Colonel's Clerk. 

Captain James Green's Company. 

Green, James, Captain, of Horseneck. 
Banks, Joseph, Sergeant. 

Corporals. 

Brown, John, Lawrence, Jonathan, 

Knapp, Jonah, Clerk, Abrams, John, Drummer. 

Privates. 

Brown, James, Merritt, Abraham, 

Clemmans, James, Merritt, James, 

Coe, Reuben, Merritt, John, 

Daniels, William, Merritt, Solomon, 

Dayton, Jonah, Mosher, Abel, 

Depue, Abram, Palmer, Robert, 

Hait, Abram, Peck, David, 

Jordon, William, Sherwood, Daniel, 

Knapp, Shubal, Sherwood, Elithan, 

Knapp, Solomon, Sutton, Benjamin, 

Kjiapp, Titus, Sutton, Benjamin, Jr., 

Lockwood, Reuben, Taylor, Zebediah, 

Lyon, Joseph, Wood, Joseph. 
Mead, Jesse, 

Captain Matthew Mead's Company. 

Mead, Matthew, Captain, of Horseneck. 
Howe, Isaac, Ensign. 



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Sergeants. 

Close, Samuel, Weed, Jesse, deserted, 

Husted, Abraham, Weed, Peter, 

Town, John, Mead, Daniel, Fifer, 
Hibbard, Joseph, Clerk, 

Corporals. 
Hinck (?), William, Louden, John. 



Privates. 



Ash, Samuel, 
Banks, Joshua, 
Banks, Obadiah, Jr., 
Hibbard, John, 
Hobby, Hezekiah, 
Knapp, Neasor, 
Lyon, Caleb, 
Mead, Calvin, 
Mead, Eli, 
Mead, Henry, 
Mead, Henry, Jr., 
Mead, Jonathan, 
Mead, Joseph, 



Mead, Jothan, 
Mead, Nemiah, 
Mead, Obadiah, 
Mead, Silas, Jr., 
Mills, Samuel, Jr., 
Ogden, Abner, 
Ogden, John, 
Palmer, Samuel, 
Peck, Isaac, Jr., 
Sackett, John, 
Townsend, Coals, 
Wilson, Benjamin. 



Captain Abraham Mead's Company. 

Mead, Abraham, Captain, of Horseneck. 

Close, Odle, Lieutenant. 

Marshall, Sylvanus, Ensign. 

Sergeants. 

Lyon, Daniel, Rundle, Eli, 

Mead, Nathaniel, Sackett, Justus, 

Peck, Benjamin, Clerk, Seymour, Drake, 

Drummer. 



Lyon, Amos, 
Marshall, Isaac, 



Brown, John, 
Bush, Bartholomew, 



Corporals. 

Mead, Edmund. 



Privates. 



Bush, Jabez, 
Bush, Justus, 



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Clarke, James, 
Close, Elnathan, 
Denton, Humphrey, 
Ferris, Caleb, 
Ferris, Israel, 
Finch, Timothy, 
Hitchcock, Joseph, 
Hitchcock, Thomas, 
Hobby, Mills, 
Johnson, Thomas, 
Johnson, William, 
Johnston, Abraham, 
Johnston, James, 
Kjiapp, Eben, 
Lockwood, Gershom, 
Lyon, Joby, 
Lyon, Noah, 
Maccoy, Abraham, 
Mead, Charles, 



Mead, David, 
Mead, Israel, 
Mead, Jonah, 
Mead, Lockwood, 
Mead, Netus, 
Mead, Solomon, 
Mead, Titus, 
Palmer, Nathaniel, 
Reynolds, Ambrose, 
Reynolds, Joseph, 
Rundle, Hardy, 
Rundle, Nathaniel, 
Rundle, Shubal, 
Rim.dle, Solomon, 
Studwell, Henry, 
Studwell, Joseph, 
Wilmot, Francis, 
Wilson, Nehemiah, 
Worden, Noah. 



Captain Charles Smith's Company. 

Smith, Charles, Captain, of Stanwich, 

Reynolds, Nathaniel, Lieutenant. 

Brush, Benjamin, Ensign. 



Chapman, Jeremiah, 
Ferris, James, 
Moe, James, Clerk, 



Banks, David, 
Waring, Jesse, 



Briggs, Caleb, 
Brown, Titus, 
Davis, Abram, 
Finch, Jonathan, Jr., 
Hait, Aaron, 
Hait, Jonathan, Jr., 
Hobby, Henry, 
Howe, Sylvanus, 



Sergeants. 

Ferris, Nathaniel, 
Webb, Benjamin, 
Todd, John, Drummer. 

Corporals. 

Webb, Gilbert, 
Webb, Nathaniel. 

Privates. 

Husted, Nathaniel, 
Ingersoll, Nathaniel, 
IngersoU, Samuel, 
Jemison, William, 
June, Abner, 
June, Nathaniel, 
June, Silas, 
June, Stephen, 



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135 



Knapp, Isaac, 
Lockwood, Azariah, 
Lockwood, Moses, 
Mead, Abel, 
Mead, Jacob, 
Mead, Stephen, 
Newman, Israel, 
Newman, Shubal, 
Palmer, Gideon, 
Reynolds, James, 



Smith, Benjamin, 
Smith, Joshua, 
Smith, Stephen, 
Waring, Joseph, 
Waring, Noah, 
Webb, Noah, 
White, Jacob, 
Wood, David, 
Youngs, Thomas. 



Captain George Peck's Company. 

Peck, George, Captain, of Greenwich, Old Town. 
Palmer, Seth, Lieutenant. 
Peck, Robert, Ensign. 

Sergeants. 

Ferris, James, Whelpley, Darling, 

Knapp, Joseph, Lockwood, Jacob, 

Palmer, John Wood, Clerk, Drummer. 



Knapp, Charles, 
Lockwood, Milton, 



Blancher, Jacob, 
Ferris, Jeduthan, 
Ferris, Joseph, 
Ferris, Nathaniel, 
Ferris, Stephen, 
Hendries, Sandy, 
Howe, Ebenezer, 
Husted, Joseph, 
Jessup, Jonathan, Jr., 
Jessup, Sylvanus, 
June, Stephen, 
Knapp, Titus, 
Linkliter (?), George, 



Corporals. 

Palmer, Zabud. 

Privates. 

Lockwood, Elnathan, 
Lockwood, Philip, 
Lockwood, Solomon, 
Montgomery, Alexander, 
Newman, Abraham, 
Palmer, Daniel, 
Palmer, Jeremiah, 
Palmer, Nathan, 
Peck, Ebenezer, 
Peck, Heth, 
Peck, Moses, 
Reynolds, Daniel, 
Whiting, Samuel. 



The following men of Captain George Peck's Company 
were detailed at Greenwich as a guard. 

Peck, Thomas, Sergeant. 
Knapp, Enos, Corporal. 



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Privates. 



Adams, John, 
Ferris, Jeremiah, 
Hendries, William, 
Jessup, Jonathan, 
Knapp, Jeremiah, 
Lockwood, Caleb, 
Lockwood, Charies, 
Lockwood, George, 



Lockwood, John, 
Lockwood, Jonathan, 3rd, 
Mead, Reuben, 
Palmer, Stephen, 
Peck, Isaac, 
Peck, Samuel, 3rd, 
Peck, William, 
Reynolds, Briggs. 



Captain Joseph Hobby's Company. 

Hobby, Joseph, Captain, of Horseneck. 
Brown, Bezaleel, Lieutenant. 
Brown, Edmund, Ensign. 



Darrow, Daniel, 
Ferris, Jabez, 
Mead, Caleb, 



Ferris, Pach, 
Fitch, Jabez, 



Sergeants. 

Mead, Nemiah, 
Rundle, Reuben. 

Brown, Thomas, Drummer. 

Corporals. 

Reynolds, Horton, 
Waters, William. 



Privates. 



Betts, Silas, 
Bush, David, 
Conerey, Samuel, 
Day, Elias, 
Dayton, Abraham, 
Durom (?), George, 
Ferris, Josiah, 
Ferris, Oliver, 
Finch, Nathaniel, 
Hobby, Benjamin, 
Holmes, Reuben, 
Howe, Jonathan, 
Jessup, Amos, 
Kicker (?), Joseph, 
Knapp, Johnson (?), Jr., 
Mackcall, Angus, 



Marshall, Andrew, 
Marshall, Daniel, 
Marshall, Ezra, 
Marshall, Stephen, 
Marshall, Thomas, 
Mead, Ebenezer, 
Mead, Jared, 
Mead, Marshall, 
Mead, Stephen, 
Palmer, Denham, 
Peck, Nathaniel, 
Pomerey, Joel, 
Ritch, Edward, 
Ritch, John, 
Ritch, Thomas, 3rd, 
Rundle, Nathaniel, 



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Sackett, Joseph, Jr., Smith, John, 3rd, 

Seymour, Samuel, Studwell, Gabriel. 

Smith, Jasper, 

Captain Howe's Company. 

Howe, Isaac, Captain, of Pecksland. 
This company was out several times. Rolls not returned. 

Captain Mead's Company. 

Mead, Caleb, Captain, of Stanwich. 
This company was out several times. Rolls not returned. 

Company of Rangers. 

Mead, Sylvanus, Captain. 

Marshall, Sylvanus, 1st Lieutenant. 

Mead, Jehiel, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Halt, Jesse, Ensign. 

Organized May, 1777, discharged August, 1779. 

Rolls not returned. 

2ND Regiment, Continental Line. 

Captain Betfs Company. 

Sergeants. 

Brown, Nathan, Knapp, Usual, 

Hoyt, Joseph, Webb, David. 

Corporal. 
Scofield, Selah. 

Privates. 

Benson, John, Smith, John, 

Brown, James, Stephens, William, 

Brown, Thomas, Taylor, Joshua, 

Bush, Samuel, Waring, Ebenezer, 

Hayes, Asa, Waring, Moses, 

Johnson, Peter, Weed, Benjamin, 

McKinny, John, Weed, Gideon, 

Scofield, Nathaniel, Westcott, David, 

Scofield, Silas, Williams, John, 

Sellick, Charies, Wilson, Gilbert, 

Smith, Caleb, Wilson, Thomas. 
See official printed rolls for complete list of names. 



138 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 
5TH Regiment, Continental Line. 

Captain Hait's Company. 

Sergeants. 

Lockwood, Eliphalet, Scribner, Asa, 

Palmer, Jonas, Mead, Samuel, 

Frost, Stephen, Corporal, Musician. 

Privates. 

Brown, Solomon, Wareing, John, 

Jones, William, Weed, Elijah, 

Knapp, James, Westcott, Ephraim, 

Matthews, John, White, Charles, 

Monrow, Daniel, White, Nathan, 

Parsons, Jesse, Wilcox, Philemon, 

Scofield, Sylvanus, Wilson, Nehemiah, 

Scott, William, Wood, Stephen. 
Smith, Joseph, 
See official printed rolls for complete list of names. 

8th Regiment, Continental Line. 

Captain Brown's Company. 
Sergeants. 
Close, Samuel, Green, Ezra. 

Corporals. 

Brown, Stephen, Smith, Jabez, 

June, Stephen, Weed, Jonas. 

Privates. 

Conklin, Deliverance, Newcomb, Daniel, 

Hait, Ebenezer, -Newman, Thomas, 

Holly, Abraham, Provost, Daniel, 

Jessup, Nathaniel, Rundle, John, 

Johnson, Daniel, Scofield, Jonathan, 

Johnson, Nathaniel, Smith, Abraham, 

Johnson, William, Smith, John, 

Lewis, Thomas, Waring, Samuel, 

Lounsberry, Peter, Weed, John, 

Mills, George, Weed, John, Jr., 



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139 



Whelpley, Ebenezer, 
Whelpley, Jonathan, 
White, James H., 

See official printed rolls for complete list of names. 



Wilson, Peter, 
Wright, Simeon. 



Colonel Sheldon's Light Dragoons, i 777-1 783. 

6th Troop of Horse. 

Marshall, Joseph, of Horseneck, 

Palmer, Joel, of Horseneck, 

Powers, Aaron, of Greenwich, 

Smith, Benjamin, of . Greenwich. 

Colonel Lamb's Artillery, i 777-1 783. 

Lockwood, Samuel, Captain. 

Waring, Henry, 1st Lieutenant. 

Whiting, Samuel, 2nd Lieutenant. 



Finch, Jeremiah, 
Knapp, Charles, 
Lockwood, Jared, 



Harriott, Israel, 
Johnson, Samuel, 



Sergeants. 

Lockwood, Joseph, 
Travers, Joseph. 

Corporals. 

Waters, William, 
Wessels, Hercules, 



Lockwood, Timothy, Drummer, Ferris, Lewis, Bombardier. 



Gunners. 



Betts, Peter, 
Hays, Abraham, 
Knapp, Samuel, 



Adams, Jonathan, 
Brown, John, 
Burley, John, 
Crudock, William, 
Davis, Isaac, 
Ferris, Peter, 
Finch, Samuel, 
Holmes, Nathan, 



Lockwood, Moses, 
Parsons, Theodosius. 



Matrosses. 



Lemman, William, 
Lockwood, David, 
Mead, Elijah, 
Mead, Jonathan, 
Mead, Samuel, 
Purdy, Jesse, 
Reed, John, 
Reynolds, Valentine, 



140 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Rogers, James, Town, William, 

Slater, David, Wessels, James, 

Town, John, Wilson, David. 

Captain Jabez Fitch's Company. 

Company of Independent Volunteers in the service of the 
State of Connecticut from March i, 1782, to March i, 1783. 

Fitch, Jabez, Captain. 
Hull, Joseph, Lieutenant. 
Mead, Andrew, Ensign. 

Sergeants. 
Hitchcock, Ebenezer, Smith, Samuel, Jr. 

Privates. 

Austin, Isaac, Nichols, James, Jr., 

Brown, Nathan, Jr., Parsons, Jesse, 

Clark, Andrew, Quintard, Isaac, 

Clark, Robert, Silleck, Uriah, 

Hull, Isaac, Smith, Polly, Corp., 

Johnson, Benjamin, Stephens, William, 

McKay, Ephraim, Waring, Enoch, 

Mead, Titus, Waring, Nathan. 
See official printed rolls for complete list of names. 

Greenwich Artillery Company. 

Marshall, Sylvanus, Captain. 
Brown, Bezaleel, Captain. 

Hughes, , Captain. 

Rolls not returned. 

At the November session of the General Assembly, 1776, 
Dr. Amos Mead, one of the representatives of the Town of 
Greenwich, on behalf of himself and the rest of the inhabi- 
tants of said town, petitioned the Assembly, "showing that 
the Town of Greenwich is situated upon the seacoast and 
that the inhabitants have no cannon to defend themselves 
against the attacks of the enemy, etc., praying this Assembly 
do grant to the petitioner six small cannons, balls, etc., for 
the defence of said town. Resolved by the Assembly that 
the selectmen of the Town of Greenwich, upon application to 



Greenwich Artillery Company 141 

Joshua^Porter of Salisbury, shall have the liberty to have 
six small cannon, and the said Porter is directed to deliver 
the same to the selectmen of said Greenwich upon applica- 
tion six four-pounders, together with a sufficient quantity of 
shot for said cannons, to be kept at said Town of Greenwich 
for the defence thereof till further order of this Assembly; 
and that his Honor the Governor with the advice of his 
Council of Safety be desired on proper application to deliver 
to said selectmen of Greenwich a sufficient quantity of pow- 
der for the use of said guns, provided the said Town of 
Greenwich shall mount said guns on proper carriages for 
use." 

1777, June 23. Minutes of the Governor and Council of 
Safety. Voted that the overseers of the Salisbury furnace 
deliver to the selectmen of Greenwich one hundred round 
shot suitable for its field pieces and grapeshot proportionate 
thereto. 

At the January Session of the Assembly, 1778, the 
selectmen by petition showed to the Assembly "that pur- 
suant to a resolve of this Assembly in November, 1776, and a 
subsequent order from his Excellency the Governor and his 
Council of Safety drawn on the managers of the cannon 
foundry at Salisbury, said selectmen procured and trans- 
ported from thence to Greenwich four cannons, which they 
caused to be well mounted on carriages fit for the defence of 
this State, and being so mounted procured a sufficient quan- 
tity of powder and shot for the same and also employed 
twenty-one men, officers included, to manage said cannons, " 
and incurred considerable expense thereby, which the 
Assembly ordered paid. 

It was also ordered at the same session that "for the 
defence and protection of the seacoast of this State, there be 
forthwith raised by voluntary enlistment, to serve until the 
first day of January next unless sooner discharged, one com- 
pany to consist of twenty-four men, including one sergeant 
and one corporal under the command of a lieutenant, to be 
stationed at Greenwich, which company is to do the duty 
and service of artillery men." 



142 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1778, February 6. Minutes of the Governor and Council 
of Safety. Sylvanus Marshall was detailed to command the 
above company of artillery men, 

1778, May 23. Minutes of the Governor and Council of 
Safety. Bezaleel Brown was detailed as lieutenant and 
commander of the artillery company at Greenwich, con- 
sisting of twenty-four men, including one sergeant and one 
corporal, in place of Lieutenant Sylvanus Marshall, who has 
resigned. 

This artillery company continued in the service, using the 
town building as a guardhouse, until the fourth day of 
August, 1779, when it was ordered by the Governor and 
Council of Safety "that the artillery company in said town 
lately commanded by Lieutenant Hughes, said Hughes 
having gone off to the enemy, both non-commissioned 
officers and privates be discharged from said service and 
returned to their respective companies. " The names of the 
officers and men of this company do not appear on the 
printed rolls. 

At the October Session of the General Assembly, 1777, 
the selectmen of the Town of Greenwich petitioned the 
Assembly, showing "that in the action at Compo (near Nor- 
walk) on the twenty-seventh day of April, 1777, one Libbeus 
Mead of Captain Seeley's Company, Colonel Courtland's 
Regiment of the State of New York, received sundry exceed- 
ingly bad and dangerous wounds, so as to be unable to be 
removed, whereby a necessary expense was incurred to the 
amount of £51, 19^, 4c?," for which reimbursement was 
directed. 

May Session of the General Assembly, 1777. "Whereas 
this Assembly has received information that frequent incur- 
sions have been made by the enemy into the Town of Green- 
wich and parts adjacent, and have taken cattle from the 
inhabitants in that quarter, and it is not in the power of this 
Assembly to give them immediate relief: Resolved by this 
Assembly that his Honor the Governor be desired to request 
General Parsons to order four hundred of the Continental 



Troops at Greenwich 143 

troops raised in this state to be detailed for the present in the 
Town of Greenwich and parts adjacent for the defence of 
said inhabitants. " 

October Session of the General Assembly, 1778. Ordered 
that Colonel Roger Enos' Regiment be detailed as follows: 
"One company at Norwalk, one company at Stamford and 
the remaining companies at Greenwich to guard and defend 
the inhabitants in those parts of the state against the incur- 
sions and depredations of the enemy by sea and land by 
keeping out proper guards and patrolling parties toward the 
seacoast and the enemy's lines and by annoying the enemy 
by every other means in their power." "That his Excel- 
lency the Governor be and he is hereby desired to give 
immediate orders to Captain John Yates and Captain David 
Olmstead, belonging to Colonel Enos' Regiment, to march 
forthwith with their companies to the Town of Greenwich 
for the defence of that town and parts adjacent thereto, and 
also to represent to General Washington the defenceless 
condition of the southwestern parts of this state and request 
of him such troops as may be necessary for the protection of 
the inhabitants in that quarter." 

1778, November 3. The minutes of the Governor and 
Council of Safety show that they wrote General Washington 
to supply Colonel Enos' Regiment now stationed at Green- 
wich with cartridges and flints. 

At the May Session of the General Assembly, 1779, two 
regiments of militia, consisting of five hundred men each, 
were ordered raised and to march with the utmost dispatch 
to Greenwich for the defence of the western frontiers. 

At the January Session of the General Assembly, 1780, 
two companies were ordered to "repair immediately to the 
Town of Greenwich and there join the guards now there for 
the defence of that important post"; also eight additional 
companies were ordered "to repair immediately to the Town 
of Greenwich and take post there under the command of 
Colonel John Mead for the defence of that place. " 

1780, March 2. Minutes of the Governor and Council 



144 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

of Safety. "Timothy Lockwood appointed lieutenant of 
the guards ; and on the twenty-third day of April, 1 780, one 
company was ordered to repair immediately to Green- 
wich for the defence of that post and places adjacent 
thereto." 

At the outbreak of the war, some, for their loyal and 
religious zeal, immediately sided with the enemy. However, 
they did not at that time openly avow their design. So 
little spirit was shown on the part of the tories within the 
limits of the town up to 1777, that a vote sustaining the 
Declaration of Independence and the Continental Congress 
was passed in town meeting without a dissenting vote. Yet 
there were disaffected ones, as the event proved, and before 
the war was finished a considerable number of men had gone 
over to and openly joined the ranks of the enemy. 

After the British had occupied New York, there arose 
another class of men, called cowboys, who were much worse 
than the tories. This body was composed of certain lawless 
characters, who seized with avidity upon every opportunity 
for plunder. They committed their depredations both upon 
the Americans and the enemy. Old grudges contracted 
before the war were now satisfied with relentless vigor, and 
the Americans suffered the most from these wretches. And 
inasmuch as they did by far the greater injury to the Ameri- 
cans, they were often assisted by British troops to carry out 
their nefarious designs. Skulking about at night in the 
woods and by-places, they would shoot down the inhabitants 
when they least suspected that an enemy was near. Their 
mode of warfare can only be compared with that of the 
Indians in the early history of the country. A few instances 
will show the bloodthirstiness, which they had attained to 
about the close of the war. 

Shubal Merritt, whose family is now extinct, was one of 
these. With one of his boon companions, he was lurking 
about the village of Rye, New York, for the accomplishment 
of some hidden purpose. An aged man was ploughing in a 
field near-by their hiding-place, and as he diligently pursued 



Incidents of the Revolution 145 

his labors backward and forward across the lot, they were 
whiling away the time by playing cards. Finally, Shubal 
proposed a game to decide which should shoot the man. 
The result was against Shubal, who, as the old man ap- 
proached them slowly with his team, deliberately raised his 
musket, and shot him through the heart. After the war was 
over, the murderer suffered his just deserts. A son of his 
victim met him and shot him dead upon the spot. And so 
great was the feeling of hatred to Shubal on the part of the 
citizens, that no notice was taken of the act. 

Dr. Amos Mead, who was ye Surgeon of ye 3rd Connect- 
icut Regiment in the expedition against Crown Point and 
Ticonderoga in 1759, and also one of the Committee of 
Safety, and representative to the General Assembly, was 
so chased and hunted by these men as to be obliged to travel 
about back in the country for a whole winter. He retraced 
by night the tracks he had made by day, and then moving 
off a short distance in another direction, spent the night in 
the first sheltered place that could be found. In the early 
spring following the winter of 1 780, he came down to look at 
a field of wheat growing some distance back of his house, but, 
on arriving at a certain point in the road, he turned back, for 
he was impressed with the idea that he must not go any 
farther, but how to account for the impression he knew not. 
A few days after a neighbor met him and told him that five 
men bent on taking his life were in that very wheat-field 
with their loaded muskets aimed at a certain point in the 
road where he must have passed had he proceeded. Dr. 
Mead, wisely acting on this timely warning, retired again 
into the country. 

Captain Sylvanus Mead, a veteran of the French and 
Indian War, one of the Committee of Safety and captain of a 
company of rangers, was constantly watched and hounded by 
these wretches. They finally, during the early part of the 
year 1780, traced him to the old Ralph Peck place at Mianus, 
and one of them knocked at the door. He called out from 
within, "Who 's there? " when one of them answered by firing 



146 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

through the door. The ball struck Captain Mead, wounding 
him fatally, and he died the following day. 

He was bom on the nineteenth day of January, 1739, 
and served in the French and Indian War as corporal in Cap- 
tain Thomas Hobby's Company, 3rd Connecticut Regiment, 
in the campaign of 1759 against Crown Point and Fort 
Ticonderoga. The enemy was compelled to vacate the fort 
on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1759. At the com- 
mencement of the Revolutionary War, he received a com- 
mission as ensign in Captain Ebenezer Hill's Company, 7th 
Connecticut Regiment, Continental Line ; was at the siege of 
Boston and promoted to ist lieutenant, Captain Samuel 
Keeler's Company, Colonel Phillip B. Bradley's Battalion, 
Wadsworth Brigade, May, 1776. He was stationed during 
the greater part of the summer and early fall of 1776 at 
Bergen Heights (now Jersey City), and in October of that 
year was ordered up the river to the vicinity of Fort Lee, 
then under General Greene's command. In November, 
most of the regiment, including Lieutenant Mead's Company 
was sent across the river to assist in the defence of Fort 
Washington, which on the sixteenth day of November, 1776, 
was captured with its entire garrison, among whom was 
Lieutenant Mead. He was afterwards exchanged and pro- 
moted to captain of a company of rangers raised by order of 
the General Assembly at the May Session, 1777, Sylvanus 
Marshall, ist lieutenant, Jehiel Mead, 2nd lieutenant, and 
Jesse Halt, ensign, of the same company. He petitioned the 
General Assembly at the Session held in January, 1778, "to 
grant to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of said 
company an additional bounty of four pounds, as has been 
granted to those of Colonels Enos' and Ely's regiments in 
consideration of the fatiguing and expensive marches of said 
company out of the state by orders of Generals Putnam and 
Parsons, etc. Payment ordered." 

On the fourth day of August, 1779, by order of the 
Governor and Council, the company of rangers raised in the 
Town of Greenwich, commanded by Captain Sylvanus 



Incidents of the Revolution 147 

Mead, both officers and men, were discharged and returned 
to the companies to which they belonged, except twenty- 
four of the first society who were to be retained as guards to 
said town, and Timothy Lockwood was appointed lieutenant 
to command said guards. The names of the officers and 
men of this company do not appear on the printed rolls. 

At the annual town meeting held on the fourteenth day 
of December, 1778, Captain Sylvanus Mead was chosen one 
of the Committee of Safety and also barrackmaster. 

Benjamin Mead, the father of Captain Sylvanus, moved 
to Quaker Ridge (North Greenwich). He also had a son 
Benjamin, who kept the old homestead formerly occupied 
by Solomon S. Mead. During the Revolutionary War the 
old place was raided by a party of British and tones. Oba- 
diah, son of Benjamin, was then quite a lad. His sisters 
Anna and Phebe, who were younger, hid with their mother in 
the cellar of the old house as the redcoats marched up the 
road, and their father and the older girls, Mary and Theo- 
dosia, barricaded the doors and windows, while Obadiah, the 
only son, solicitous for the cattle without, drove them into 
the barnyard and then beat a hasty retreat to a neighbor's 
bam. An unfriendly tory, knowing the fact, informed the 
British soldiers, who surrounded the bam, threatening to set 
fire to it unless he came out. He, too brave to surrender, 
jumped from the bam and ran across the orchard towards the 
rocks above Dyspepsia Lane, but the British followed. 
Seeing that escape was impossible, Obadiah surrendered, 
only to be immediately fired at and instantly killed. The 
ball passed through his left arm and entered his side. For 
several generations the place of his burial was a sacred spot 
to the members of the family, and now, though unknown, it 
is not forgotten in memory. The coat he wore, showing the 
bullet holes and blood stains, has been preserved all these 
years, and is now in the possession of Sarah C. Mead. After 
killing the son, the redcoats forced their way into the house, 
but unable to find the father, they departed, taking with 
them the horse and all the geese. 



148 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

General John Mead's house was repeatedly plundered and 
his cattle driven off by the tories and cowboys, his buildings 
torn to pieces, fences burned, and the lives of his family 
endangered. So great were their nefarious designs against 
his family that he was eventually compelled to remove them 
to New Canaan, Connecticut. For his losses the State of 
Connecticut afterwards gave him a large tract of land in 
Ohio, then considered of little value, and at his death it was 
divided among his children. 

There are two instances of those marauding expeditions 
which have been preserved by the family, as well as many 
other accounts of those dark days. 

One morning while they were at breakfast with some of 
the general's friends, the house was surrounded by a party of 
the Tory Light Horse, and they barely had time to escape 
through the back door, but not unperceived by the enemy. 
One of the horsemen rode up and demanded of Anna, one of 
the general's daughters, then a girl of eighteen, who came to 
the door, where they were hid. She refused to give a satis- 
factory answer, when he declared with an oath that he would 
kill her, and aimed a blow at her head with his sword. She, 
however, dodged the blow, and his sword struck the door- 
casing, cutting it quite in two. This door-casing was visible 
as long as the house remained standing, and was a memento 
of the harshness of war. Finding that he could not intimi- 
date her, he remounted his horse, rode into the house, placed 
his foot under the edge of the table and tipped it over, 
breaking the dishes. Confronting a large mirror, he dashed 
his sword against the glass and broke it into a thousand 
pieces, at the same time exclaiming, "There's Congress for 
you." General Mead's son, Alan, was at that time a very 
small boy, and he hid behind some evergreens in the fireplace. 
Being very much frightened by their wanton and boisterous 
conduct, he began to cry, when the same tory said to him, 
"Stop your noise, or I will cut your head off. " Anna always 
declared that she would remember that man, no matter 
where she should see him; and singular to relate, she 



General John Mead 149 

did often see him in after years in churches and other 
places. 

At another time, when the oldest son, John, who was 
drum-major in the army, was at home on parole, it being a 
very dry time and the well at the house having given out, 
Mary, another daughter, Anna's twin sister, went to a 
spring some distance from the house to rinse some clothes. 
While there she saw her brother John run from the back door 
in his shirt sleeves, through the orchard, to a thicket that had 
sprung up from the roots of a tree that had been cut down, 
and there conceal himself only a short distance from her. 
In a few moments she was surrounded by the British and 
Tory Light Horse, who demanded of her where her brother 
had fled to. When she refused to give the information, a 
horseman rode up to her, drew his sword, and placing it at her 
breast, swore he would take her life in an instant if she did not 
reveal her brother's hiding-place. Her presence of mind did 
not forsake her, and she explained that she came out there 
early in the morning, had not been from there, and therefore 
under the circumstances could not know what had taken 
place at the house. She was finally successful in convincing 
him that she did not know, and thus saved her brother's 
life, although the place of his concealment was within sight, 
and almost within sound of their voices. 

After the family removed to New Canaan, Connecticut, 
Anna became acquainted with and married John Eells of 
that place. He also had been a soldier, and was at Ridge- 
field when that place was burned. They had eight children, 
and removed to Walton, Delaware County, New York, 
where they both died at an advanced age. 

General John Mead petitioned the General Assembly 
at the session held in January, 1780, showing "that he had 
been driven from his estate by the enemy and that a great 
part of his time for three years past had been taken up in 
military command for which he has had no allowance, to the 
neglect and great injury of his private affairs, whereby he is 
much reduced." Resolved by the Assembly that Colonel 



150 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

John Mead receive out of the public treasury of this state 
the sum of £400 money. 

Brigadier-General John Mead was a direct descendant 
from the first John Mead, through the oldest sons. His 
mother was Elizabeth Lockwood, of North Greenwich. 
He was born in Horseneck about 1725, died December 3, 
1790, and was buried in the old burying-ground at the sum- 
mit of Put's Hill, but the spot is no longer known. In 
personal appearance he was short and very fleshy, so much so 
that a story is told of his tailor, who, having made a vest for 
him, by way of experiment buttoned it around himself and 
four other men. In character he was extremely firm and 
decided, sometimes looked upon as a little severe, but, like all 
Meads, exceedingly just. He spent the whole of his life in 
Horseneck, having there a large farm. His residence w^as 
almost the first one in the village of Greenwich, entering it 
from the west, and was standing up to within a very few 
years. He was a member of the Legislature of Connecticut 
for eight years before the Revolutionary War, eight years 
during the Revolutionary War and after the Revolutionary 
War until 1788, two years before his death, making twenty 
consecutive years. He was Justice of the Peace for Fairfield 
County from 1769 to 1774 inclusive; commissioned Lieu- 
tenant of the West Company of Greenwich on the thirteenth 
day of October, 1757; promoted to captain on the tenth day 
of October, 1767; and on the thirteenth day of May, 1773, 
received his commission as major in the 9th Regiment, 
Connecticut Militia, 

At the commencement of the Revolutionary War, King 
George sent him a commission as captain, which he declined. 
He was commissioned major when he entered the American 
Army; three weeks afterward was promoted to lieutenant- 
colonel, and three years before the war closed, was commis- 
sioned brigadier-general. His major's commission was at 
one time found by the British and tories among his papers, 
when they surrounded and plundered his house during the 
war, and by them carried ofif as evidence against him, should 



General John Mead 151 

he by any chance of war fall into their hands. For three 
years during the war he had command of the American lines 
at Horseneck, and for a long distance each way. He saw 
much active service, served on the Brooklyn front with his 
regiment a few days before and during the Battle of Long 
Island, August 27, 1776, and in the retreat from New York 
had command of the last detachment of our troops that left 
the city. The day on which the troops evacuated New 
York was a remarkably hot one, and our men suffered 
intensely from that and fatigue during the retreat. At 
night, as soon as a place of safety had been reached, every 
one sought rest. The officers found accommodations on the 
floor of the hotel and elsewhere, till every place was occupied. 
Lieutenant- Colonel Mead came in last, carefully sought a 
place, and laid down, thoughtlessly appropriating an officer's 
feet for a pillow. The officer awoke, and in a rough tone 
demanded who was lying on his feet. Lieutenant-Colonel 
Mead politely apologized, but the officer recognizing his 
voice, cried out, "For God's sake. Colonel, is that you? I 
never expected to see you again alive after the dreadful heat 
and struggle of this day; make a pillow of my feet and wel- 
come, if you can find any rest here." On September 15, 
1776, he was posted on Harlem (Washington) Heights, and 
remained there until the Battle of White Plains, October 28, 
1776, in which he was engaged and suffered considerable loss. 
He was afterwards posted at Horseneck and remained there 
during the greater part of the war, and took part in many 
other engagements. 

General Mead was married in 1752, to Mary Brush, 
daughter of Benjamin Brush. By this marriage he had nine 
children. His wife died in 1785, aged fifty-five. He mar- 
ried second, Mehitable, widow of Jonathan Peck and daugh- 
ter of Mr. Blackman, of North Greenwich, Connecticut, and 
had one daughter, Mehitable. He died December 3, 1790. 

Colonel Thomas Hobby was a descendant of John Hobby 
(Huby, Hubbe, Hubby, or Hoby), who settled in Green- 
wich, Old Town (now Sound Beach), sometime prior to 1659. 



152 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

He was bom on the sixth day of January, 1722, and at an 
early age enHsted in the militia where he received his military 
training. 

At the commencement of the French and Indian War, 
during the August Session of the General Assembly, 1755, 
he was commissioned captain of the 8th Company, 3rd Regi- 
ment, raised in the Colony of Connecticut to go in the 
expedition against Crown Point. The official records show, 
however, that he served during the campaign of 1755, in 
which the French and Indians were repulsed at the Battle of 
Lake George, as captain in the 4th Regiment, 8th Company. 
He continued in the service as captain in the campaigns of 
1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, and 1762. 

At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he entered 
the service as major in the 5th Regiment, Continental Line. 
The regiment under the command of Colonel Wooster 
marched to New York and was there detailed for duty in the 
Northern Department, and took part in the Battle of Saint 
John's, Quebec, on the sixth day of September, 1775, at 
which Major Hobby was slightly wounded. He re-entered 
the service in 1776 and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel 
in Wadsworth Brigade, Bradley's Battalion, which was 
stationed during the greater part of the summer and early 
fall of 1776 at Bergen Heights and Paulus Hook (now 
Jersey City) . In October of the same year it was ordered up 
the river to the vicinity of Fort Lee, then under General 
Greene's command. In November most of the battalion 
was sent across the river to assist in the defence of Fort 
Washington, which on the sixteenth day of November, 1776, 
was captured with its entire garrison and Colonel Hobby 
was taken prisoner. He was afterwards paroled, returned to 
Greenwich, lived on Putnam Avenue and continued his 
activity in local affairs until the time of his death, which 
occurred on the thirtieth day of July, 1798. His will, dated 
the twenty-ninth day of October, 1783, was probated at 
Stamford on the first day of September, 1798, and names 
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Captain Abraham Mead 153 

mentioned, Thomas, Jabez M,, Hezekiah, Mary, and 
Sarah. 

Captain Abraham Mead was the eleventh son, each of 
whom had a sister, of Deacon Ebenezer Mead, and was born 
on the fourteenth day of December, 1742. At an early age 
he was apprenticed to a Dutchman, who was a potter, to 
learn the potter's trade. This pottery was situated on the 
westerly side of the Indian Harbor about where the Held 
House now stands. He was an ingenious boy, determined to 
learn the trade, so he watched his master when he thought 
himself alone, saw the salt thrown into the kiln just before 
the baking of the clay was completed and the finished arti- 
cles taken therefrom perfectly glazed, and kept his discover- 
ies to himself. One day the potter, after extinguishing the 
fires, with his boat and men set sail for New Jersey to obtain 
a load of clay, leaving the boy in charge. The latter 
spent his time in experimenting, and when they rounded 
the point on their return, they discovered the pottery in 
full blast. It is said that the potter prefaced his exclamation, 
"He 's got it, he 's got it, " meaning the boy knew the busi- 
ness, with some strong language. The potter, however, did 
not intend to lose so valuable a man, and after the ex- 
piration of the term of his apprenticeship took him in as a 
partner, and later on Captain Abraham Mead succeeded 
the Dutchman in his business. 

He received his early military training in the militia, and 
at the May Session of the Legislature, 1774, he was commis- 
sioned captain of the middle company or train band in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Immediately after the Lexington Alarm, April, 1775, 
troops were raised for the defence of New York, and Captain 
Abraham Mead of Horseneck, 9th Regiment, with part of his 
company, was ordered to march to New York to assist in the 
defence of that important point. The returns show the time 
of service to have been eleven days. 

In the reorganization of the troops for the year 1776, 
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154 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Battalion, Wads worth Brigade, raised to re-enforce General 
Washington in New York; served on the Brooklyn front a 
few days before and during the Battle of Long Island, 
August 27, 1776; was in the Retreat from New York and was 
among the four thousand men under General Putnam, who 
were left as a rear-guard, while the main army under General 
Washington took a position on Harlem Heights. When 
Clinton landed in New York, September 15, 1777, General 
Washington sent hurried orders to General Putnam to 
evacuate the city and join him. Lossing states that General 
Putnam was ignorant of the routes leading from the city and 
that Aaron Burr, one of his aids, led the division through the 
woods west of Broadway (Bloomingdale Road) to Harlem 
Heights. 

After landing, Howe, Clinton, Tryon, and others went to 
the house of Robert Murray, on Murray Hill, for a short rest 
and refreshment, as they supposed they had General Putnam 
hemmed in. The hostess, an unsuspected whig, and a 
woman of great charm, entertained the officers so graciously, 
serving them cake and wine, that she detained them for more 
than two hours, long enough for the greater part of the forces 
to escape. They were discovered, however, and a detach- 
ment of light infantry was sent in pursuit, which overtook 
the rear of the American forces in a path extending from the 
Bloomingdale Road to Harlem Lane, and a warm skirmish 
took place at the intersection of One Hundredth Street and 
Eighth Avenue, and Captain Mead and his company came 
very near being cut off from the main division and captured. 
He was then posted on Harlem (Washington) Heights until 
the Battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776, in which he and 
his company were engaged and suffered some loss. After 
this battle he assumed command of his own company in the 
9th Regiment and remained on duty guarding the Westches- 
ter border until January, 1777. 

He was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety 
on the eighth day of December, 1777, and served until the 
end of the war. It was while acting in this capacity that a 




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price was put on his head, and he was in danger not only 
from recognized foes, but also from false friends, who might 
betray him for the reward. One dark night he went from 
his home on Held's Point to confer with General John Mead, 
who was then stationed at Fort Nonsense, which was a short 
distance above the bridge at Dumpling Pond (now North 
Mianus). It was unsafe to go by the road, so he took the 
path along the East Brother Brook. The conference over, 
he started back, and something strongly impelled him to go 
home by a different route, so he boldly chose the road. 
After the close of the war two men, whom he knew, came to 
him and told him that on that night they were watching 
for him on the path, and intended to capture him and deliver 
him up to the British. He, however, had evaded their evil 
designs by taking another route home. 

On another occasion the commander of the post here 
learning that a further attempt would be made to take his life, 
detailed four soldiers of the Continental Army to serve as 
his guard; but while on their way to his house on Held's 
Point, they fell into the ambush designed for Captain 
Abraham Mead and were all killed, and were buried on the 
point, which place is still marked by a stone. 

After the Revolutionary War, he resumed the business 
of a potter, and made a boat load of pottery and sold it, and 
used -the proceeds to pay off the note on the Second Congrega- 
tional Church, of which he was a deacon and treasurer for 
many years. He was chosen town treasurer at the annual 
town meeting held on the seventeenth day of December, 
1787, and held the office for ten consecutive years.' 

An incident is related of how a resident of Round Hill 
and his accomplice attempted on a dark night to drive off 
some cattle at Quaker Ridge. There had been quite a num- 
ber of depredations in that vicinity and Calvin Mead, Levi 
Mead, and Job Lyon were on the watch. It had been pre- 
arranged that in case of an alarm Calvin, who was allowed to 

'The author is indebted to Julia E. Bell for the loan of her manuscript 
from which the greater part of the foregoing article is compiled. 



156 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

sleep during the first part of the watch, was to reserve his 
fire until the last. They did not have to watch long before 
Levi and Job heard some one getting the cattle and pigs to- 
gether and gave the alarm. They had a young horse which 
was shy of strangers and it took the miscreants some time 
to catch him. At last all the stock had been collected 
and arranged to the satisfaction of the cowboys, and the 
drove was started down the road toward King Street, but 
coming to a low place in the fence opposite to where the 
patriots were hidden the pigs, which were in the lead, owing 
to a puff of wind blowing toward them from the hiding-place, 
scented the watchers and stampeded. One of the cowboys 
immediately suspected that he and his accomplice were 
being watched, so he stooped over and started to run. 
Calvin was afraid that the men would escape, so he immed- 
iately took aim and fired. The flash from his gun so blinded 
the others that they were not sure of their aim and the mis- 
creants escaped. A few days afterwards a colored man in 
the vicinity was seen wearing a well-known coat with a 
bullet hole in it and when questioned about it told who gave 
it to him. The cowboy evidently was afraid to wear the 
tell-tale coat around the town. In relating the incident in 
after years, Calvin said he had as straight an aim on the man 
as he ever had on any gray squirrel in his life and never 
could understand how it was that he missed him. 

The same man and his accomplices, a short while after 
the above incident and during the absence of Captain Isaac 
Howe, who was obliged to seek a place of safety at North 
Castle, owing to the attempts made to take his life, he having 
been shot at before while returning to his home at Pecksland 
on horseback, made a raid on his house with the intent to 
bum it. He was met at the door by Mrs. Howe, and she 
said to him, "I know you, I know who all of you are, and if 
you attempt to burn this house, I will tell every one in town 
who did it and the people will take the matter in hand and 
get after you and your accomplices." Fearing the conse- 
quences they were deterred from carrying their evil designs 



Incidents of the Revolution 157 

into execution. Some time after the close of the war, the 
leader of this band obtained a pension for military services 
rendered before he became a cowboy. 

Another class, not so violent in their individual conduct, 
but equally inimical in other respects, was composed of those 
who, under guise of permits from the English, resided here 
without molestation from the enemy, and in return for this 
privilege, gave them sufficient and well-timed information of 
the doings of the Americans. There was quite a large num- 
ber of this class scattered in different parts of the country; 
and we cannot but deplore the situation of our forefathers, 
thus situated with spies and tories in their midst and the 
enemy close at hand. 

During the war a paper was published in the City of New 
York by one Rivington, called the Rivington Press. This 
paper was professedly and to all outward appearances 
devoted to the British cause. It was, however, afterwards 
known to have aided the Americans much, and it is said that 
it was under the control of General Washington himself. 
The hostile appearance of the sheet deceived the Americans 
as well as their enemies. About half a dozen Greenwich 
men resolved that the publication of the Press should be 
stopped, and they stole into the city, destroyed the printing- 
press, and bagged the type, which they brought off with 
them from the very midst of a watchful enemy. Captain 
Andrew Mead and Peter Mead were the principal men of the 
expedition. It is said that they only of the company were 
able to carry the bags of type from the printing-office to the 
street, and throw them across the backs of their horses. 
After the type was brought to Greenwich it was totally de- 
stroyed, except enough to print the names of the members of 
the company, which the veterans kept for a long time in 
memory of their exploit. 

During the period that New York was occupied by the 
British, their vessels had almost complete command of the 
waters of Long Island Sound. There were, however, many 
daring men engaged in a sort of privateering against them, 



158 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

and among these were Captain Andrew Mead and Elnathan 
Close, with quite a large company of men. They went upon 
their expeditions in whale-boats, which might easily be hid- 
den in the smaller bays along the coast and glide through 
shallow water in escaping, or attacking the enemy. 

In one of their expeditions, they proceeded by night to 
Ferry Point and seized upon a small store vessel and brought 
her off with them. She was anchored in a small inlet known 
as Chimney Comer. The prize was so valuable a one, that 
the enemy pursued them with one of their sloops of war and 
anchored off Chimney Comer a short distance from the shore ; 
but the people of Greenwich collected for the defence of the 
prize, and fired upon the sloop from behind a knoll with a six- 
pounder, which was the only large gun in the town. The 
first shot struck upon the vessel's deck and wounded a dog, 
as was supposed from his sudden yelping. Other shots were 
fired and replied to by the enemy's guns, but finding it impos- 
sible to retake the vessel, or harm the people upon the shore, 
the British relinquished their efforts and sailed away. Cap- 
tain Andrew Mead was wounded on this occasion in both 
arms. As they were boarding the vessel at Ferry Point, he 
being the first to leap on her deck, received two shots, one in 
each arm, from the marines on guard, who, as the approach 
had been so still, then perceived the attack for the first time. 
Although Captain Mead was wounded, Elnathan Close and 
his crew, who boarded the vessel from the opposite side, 
quickly overpowered the marines on the deck and the force 
below surrendered with but little resistance. 

Soon after this, the same body of men, under Elnathan 
Close, went down into Cow Bay and there seized upon a 
vessel, and had brought their prize off Hempstead, when the 
wind died away and the tide drifted her fast toward the Long 
Island shore, which was in the full possession of the British. 
Boats were sent from the shore for the rescue. No alterna- 
tive remained but to relinquish the prize and seek personal 
safety. This was accomplished by all the Americans, 
except one. Smith Mead, who, either from chance or choice. 



Incidents of the Revolution 159 

remained on board and was taken prisoner. Many supposed 
this to have been willingly done on the part of the prisoner, 
as he was soon after found fighting upon the other side. He 
fought on either side, whenever and wherever it appeared to 
have been to his interest to so do. He was one of those who 
drove off the cattle of Captain Abraham Mead from Field 
Point, and after the war was over had the boldness to 
solicit aid of the same family in procuring a pension. Al- 
though this was refused, he did, finally, obtain one through 
the influence of others. 

The winter of 1 779-1 780 was one of the severest on record 
during the war. The Sound was completely frozen over and 
a great amount of snow fell. During the month of January, 
1780, some dozen or twenty head of cattle, the most of which 
belonged to Jared Mead of Greenwich, were driven off in 
haste by the cowboys towards New York. After much 
solicitation on the part of the owners. Captain Andrew Mead, 
Richard Mead, and Humphrey Denton consented to make 
the daring attempt to cross the enemy's lines and retake the 
cattle. There had been recently a rain-storm, which had 
frozen as it fell, rendering the roads extremely slippery and 
making a hard, sharp crust upon the snow. The pursuers, 
however, went upon the sound with their horses and kept on 
the ice as far as Mamaroneck, New York, and then taking 
the road could track the cattle by the blood which had 
trickled from the prods of the bayonets given them to force 
them along. At Mount Vernon, New York, they retook the 
cattle and were returning when they found that they were 
being pursued by a body of troops under the command of a 
lieutenant. Their horses were tired by their long and swift 
ride, and they soon knew that their only safety was in 
separation; and in that case even, one must be inevitably 
taken. Accordingly they left the cattle and fled separately 
in different directions. The enemy selected Richard Mead, 
pursued and took him prisoner. He was taken to New York 
and thrown into the famous Sugar House, where he remained 
for a period of six weeks until exchanged. 



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Richard Mead was the son of Dr. Amos Mead, and when 
he was about to take to himself a colonial dame, in 1798, to 
share his lot, his father built a house and gave it to him as a 
wedding gift. It was called Dearfield, the "dear" being 
spelled with an "a," and its fame spread far and wide as 
being a delightful and magnificent home, which it really was, 
and one of the sights of those times, as well as it is of these. 
The immense button-ball tree, which stood directly in front 
of the house, was a landmark. There were three standing 
during the Revolutionary War, the other two nearer to 
where the Presbyterian Church now stands. The old home- 
stead, the residence of the late Thomas A. Mead, Colonel, 
9th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, is on Putnam Avenue. 
It was visited by General Lafayette in 1824. 

The attack made upon Greenwich by Governor Tryon 
and the escape of General Putnam down the "rocky steep" 
are the most important incidents in the history of the Revo- 
lutionary War. It is an exceedingly difficult task for a 
historian collecting data at this late day, much of which 
must necessarily be traditional, or legendary, to present the 
facts and circumstances as they originally existed from what 
meagre official information there is in existence. General 
Putnam, according to his own account, spent but little time 
in the village while the enemy was here. His official report 
from Barber s Historical Collections of Connecticut, is as follows : 

Camp at Reading. 

March 2, 1779. 

A detachment from the enemy at King's bridge, consist- 
ing of the 17th, 44th, and 57th British Regiments, one of the 
Hessians, and two of new levies, marched from their lines for 
Horseneck on the evening of the 25th ult., with an intention 
of surprising the troops at that place and destroying the salt 
works. 

A captain and thirty men were sent from our advanced 
lines from Horseneck, who discovered the enemy at New 
Rochelle, in advance. They retired before them undis- 
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enemy observed and attacked them. They defended them- 
selves as well as possible, and made their way good to Saw- 
pits, where they took advantage of a commanding piece of 
ground and made some little stand, but the superior force of 
the enemy obliged them to retire over Byram bridge, which 
they took up, and by that means had an opportunity of 
reaching Horseneck in safety. 

As I was there myself to see the situation of the guards, I 
had the troops formed on a hill by the meeting-house, ready 
to receive the enemy as they advanced. They came on 
briskly, and I soon discovered that their design was to turn 
our flanks and possess themselves of a defile in our rear, 
which would effectually prevent our retreat. I therefore 
ordered parties out on both flanks, with directions to give me 
information of their approach, that we might retire in season. 
In the meantime a column advanced up the main road, 
where the remainder of the troops (amounting to about 
sixty) were posted. We discharged some old field pieces 
which were there, a few times, and gave them a small fire 
of musketry, but without any considerable effect. The 
superior force of the enemy soon obliged our small detach- 
ment to abandon the place. 

I therefore directed the troops to retire and form on a hill 
a little distance from Horseneck, while I proceeded to Stam- 
ford and collected a body of militia and a few Continental 
troops, which were there, with which I returned immediately, 
and found that the enemy (after plundering the inhabitants 
of the principal part of their effects, and destroying a few 
salt works, a small sloop and store), were on their return. 
The officer commanding the Continental troops stationed at 
Horseneck mistook my orders and went much farther than 
I intended, so that he could not come up with them to any 
advantage. I, however, ordered the few troops that came 
from Stamford to pursue them, thinking they might have an 
opportunity to pick up some stragglers. In this I was not 
mistaken, as your Excellency will see by the enclosed list of 
prisoners. Besides these, eight or nine more were taken 
and sent off, so I cannot tell to which particular regiments 
they belonged; one ammunition and one baggage wagon 
were taken. In the former there were about two hundred 
rounds of canister, grape and round shot, suited to three- 
pounders, some slow matches, and about two hundred tubes ; 
the latter was filled with plunder, which I had the satis- 
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taken. As I have not yet got a return, I cannot tell exactly 
the number we lost, though I don 't think more than ten 
soldiers, and about that number of inhabitants, but a few of 
which were in arms. 

List of prisoners taken at Horseneck, the 26th ult. — 
17th Regiment, 15 privates; 44th do., 5 privates; 57th 
do,, 3 privates; Loyal American Regiment, 5; Emmerick 
Corps, 8 ; First Battalion of Artillery, i ; Pioneers, i . — 
Total, 38. 

N. B. — Seven deserters from Emmerick's Corps. 

The following is also from Barber's Historical Collections 
of Connecticut, being extracts from two letters from Fairfield 
County, dated the first day of March, 1779, four days after 
the occurrence: 

The enemy has made an excursion within four miles 
of Stamford, by the best accounts of about 1400 or 1500 men, 
under the command of Governor Tryon; they reached 
Horseneck on Friday morning about nine o'clock; at Stam- 
ford they were not alarmed till ten o'clock, notwithstanding 
the enemy was discovered at nine o'clock the preceding 
evening by a small guard of Continental troops at East 
Chester, under the command of Captain Titus Watson, who 
were obliged to give way though they fought on their retreat, 
and some of them were wounded and taken prisoners. Cap- 
tain Watson was closely pursued by a light horseman whom 
he had the good fortune to kill, and by the . . . made 
his escape. General Putnam was accidently at Stamford, 
but the Continental troops were too much scattered to be 
collected in season to oppose the enemy. About 200 mili- 
tia and a few Continental troops fell in with the enemy's 
rear, just as they were leaving Horseneck about the middle 
of the afternoon, who killed eight or ten of them and took 
about fifty prisoners, who had made too free with the liquor 
they had plundered. They destroyed a small salt work and 
burnt a schooner which lay at Mianus Creek. They plun- 
dered the inhabitants of everything they could lay their 
hands on, broke windows, etc., and many families are 
stripped of everything but the clothes they had on ; even the 
house where Governor Tryon had his headquarters was not 
spared. They retreated to Rye on Friday evening and the 
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From the foregoing reports and from the most reliable 
traditions, which have been handed down from sire to son, 
the author has arranged the following account of the raid, as 
being most consistent with the facts, and with which he 
anticipates some of the readers will disagree : 

The headquarters at this time were at the house of Cap- 
tain John Hobby, who lived on Putnam Avenue about 
opposite Sherwood Place. He was commissioned by the 
May Session of the General Assembly, 1777, captain of the 
8th Company of the Alarm List in the 9th Regiment, and 
was a brother of Colonel Thomas Hobby of the Continental 
Army. The Hobby house during the Revolutionary War 
was a popular stopping-place for all Continental officers and 
patriots. 

On the evening of the twenty -fifth of February, 1779, 
General Putnam was at Horseneck inspecting the picket 
guard, where it was his custom to come almost every day to 
gain information of the doings of the enemy in Westchester 
County, New York, and, incidentally, to discuss with his 
comrade of the French and Indian War, Colonel Thomas 
Hobby, the contemplated movement of troops, the most 
strategical points to hold, or capture, and the results of 
recent campaigns. During the day a small company of the 
Continental light-horsemen, under the command of Captain 
Titus Watson, consisting of about thirty men, had been 
ordered forward by General Putnam to observe the move- 
ments of the enemy. They went down nearly as far as New 
Rochelle, where between eight and nine o'clock in the 
evening they found the enemy approaching with Delancey's 
body of tories in the lead. The Continentals retired before 
them, but were discovered and attacked. By reason of 
superior numbers they were defeated and many of them 
were killed. The enemy drove them from the Post Road 
dovm into Milton, where under the cover of darkness they 



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managed to keep away from their pursuers, some of them 
hiding in the swamps. A number of others, including Cap- 
tain Watson, by crossing the heads of the creeks which 
indented the shore along Long Island Sound, succeeded in 
reaching Byram Bridge. This they had time to take up 
before the enemy came in sight again. Captain Watson and 
his men then rode directly to Horseneck (Borough of Green- 
wich) with the company of tories in full pursuit. Five of 
them turned southward and were pursued by a detail of the 
enemy, which came up with one of the Continentals near the 
present railroad station . The soldier was there shot down and 
the horse inhumanely butchered from which the inclosure has 
since been known as the "horse lot. " Captain Watson and 
the others kept to the Post Road and gave the alarm to the 
picket guard in the village, but there was little or no time to 
prepare for defence. The enemy had been informed of the 
weakness of the outpost and advanced steadily on it. Mat- 
thew Mead, then a boy of twelve, was back of his father's 
house, which was on the northerly side of Putnam Avenue, a 
short distance east of the Field Point Road, when he saw 
the enemy at the top of the hill west of Horseneck Brook. 
His father sent him off with the other children and the cattle 
back in the lots, where he reached a place of safety. The 
Americans, warned by Captain Watson, according to the 
various accounts, numbered from one to two hundred men. 
General Putnam says, "as I was there myself to see the 
situation of the guards, I had the troops formed on a hill by 
the meeting house, ready to receive the enemy as they 
advanced. They came on briskly, and I soon discovered 
that their design was to turn our flanks and possess them- 
selves of a defile in our rear, which would effectually prevent 
our retreat. I therefore ordered parties out on both flanks 
with directions to give me information of their approach, 
that we might retire in season. In the meantime a column 
advanced up the main road, where the remainder of the 
troops (amounting to about sixty) were posted. We dis- 
charged some old field pieces which were there, a few times, 



Tryon's Raid 165 

and gave them a small fire of musketry, but without any- 
considerable effect. The superior force of the enemy soon 
obliged our small detachment to abandon the place. I 
therefore directed the troops to retire, and form on a hill a 
little distance from Horseneck, while I proceeded to Stam- 
ford to obtain re-enforcements. " He, however, delayed too 
long in arranging for the safety of his men, and the enemy, as 
they came by the house of Captain John Hobby, recognized 
General Putnam as being in command of the troops and 
gave him full chase. He dashed on and by the time he 
reached the precipice now known as Put's Hill the com- 
mander of the tones, Thomas Merritt, of Westchester 
County, New York, was within two lengths of him. 

The road before reaching the brink of the precipice ran 
nearly east and west, then turning a short right angle ran 
north about thirty rods, when it turned directly about and 
ran south along under the precipice to about five rods below 
the causeway forming the present road, where it again 
turned eastward. 

General Putnam plunged his horse down this "rocky 
steep," which, being overgrown with stunted bushes, pre- 
sented a wild appearance, at a headlong pace in a south- 
easterly direction and followed a sort of a cow-path 
through the thicket until he came out on the road at the 
foot of the hill. The hill now presents a totally different 
aspect from what it formerly did, and the most difficult part 
of General Putnam's descent was after he crossed the road 
running along the brow of the hill. 

Some will have it that he rushed headlong down the 
seventy-four stone steps, placed roughly one above another 
for the convenience of pedestrians (this is merely a fancy 
sketch for picture books and is at variance with the facts), 
and at this day point out with pride as those historic steps 
the ones chiselled in the rocks on the north side of the road 
in 1902 at the expense of the town, and under the auspices of 
some of our patriotic citizens. The old steps were removed 
before the Civil War. 



1 66 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

One of the many balls fired at him by the tories from the 
brow of the hill as he rode through the bushes passed through 
his hat. General Putnam on this occasion could not refrain 
from his customary exclamation when in trouble from the 
tories, which he shouted as the balls whistled thickly past 
him: "God cuss ye; when I catch ye, I 'II hang ye to the next 
tree." 

A very accurate and reliable account of General Putnam's 
ride by Isaac L. Mead appeared in the Greenwich Graphic of 
July 21, 1897, and by courtesy of the Graphic, is reprinted 
here. 

The following is an account of General Putnam's ride by 
Mr. I. L. Mead, the story having been related to him by his 
grandfather, Rev. Mark Mead, who received his information 
from Colonel Ebenezer Mead, who was standing in the door- 
yard of the house where John Maher now resides, and saw 
General Putnam as he rode down. 

In those days there was no cut through the rocks, but the 
road ran north some distance, then turned in a southeasterly 
direction, using the old road as it now is half-way down the 
hill and crossing the present road going down on the south 
side. The road in some places was steep. On the top of the 
hill south of Putnam Avenue was the Episcopal Church. 
Pedestrians, instead of going around the road to the church, 
took the short cut up the hill. There were flat stones laid to 
give the people a better footing. When I was a boy there 
was a line of bushes where my grandfather told me the steps 
were. As near as I can remember, one comer of the building 
south of the present road stood on the line of steps. Any one 
going on to the hill will see the impossibility of a horse going 
where these steps were, even at a walk and without a rider. 

The story told in history with the picture of a man riding 
at full gallop down the steps, cut from immense stones 
brought from Voorhis's quarry, is on a par with many yams 
that get into print. They are only fancy sketches of the 
writer. 



Tryon's Raid 167 

There are various accounts given as to Putnam's move- 
ments before the enemy were discovered. Some say that he 
was at a ball the night previous, taking a lady on his horse 
behind him. The ball was near Pecksland at the house 
standing where the William A. Husted house is. The lady 
was the daughter of David Bush, who lived in the house now 
occupied by Mr. E. P. Holley, of Cos Cob. 

The Tracy house opposite the present Episcopal Church 
is claimed by some to have been the general's headquarters. 
Others say that his headquarters were at a house standing 
about opposite Mechanic Street, or Sherwood Place, as now 
called. 

There was probably but a small force of men on duty here, 
and they were attacked by a much larger enemy. As soon as 
they caught sight of General Putnam they gave him full 
chase. He stopped to order his men to scatter. They did so, 
hiding behind trees and fences. Putnam started for the hill, 
and instead of going around the loop they were so close to 
him that he turned down a cow-path. This was too dan- 
gerous for the horsemen to follow. Any one can locate this 
cow-path where General Putnam rode down if they will go 
where the old road joins the present road. By looking up 
towards Mrs. Button's house on the north side of the cut, 
you will see a natural pathway. It is very plain to be seen. 
This was at that time a cow-path. General Putnam could 
ride down there, but any one would know it was dangerous. 
Any one going on to the hill south of the present road must 
see that it would be impossible to get down there on a horse. 

These conditions and the testimony of reliable witnesses 
(others saw it besides Colonel Ebenezer Mead and give the 
same account) convince me that this account of General 
Putnam's ride is the true one. 

The above account, given by Mr. I. L. Mead, practically 
agrees with the story about the ride told to the writer by Mr. 
Jabez Mead. His father related the facts to him, and said 
that that was what General Ebenezer Mead, who stood in his 
doorway, just beyond the foot of the hill, told him about the 



i68 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

ride. General Mead saw General Putnam come tearing 
down the cow-path; saw him turn in his saddle just as he 
reached the bottom of the stone steps and come into the 
turnpike, and holler "damn ye" to the redcoats who stood 
around the little church at the top of the steps, firing at him. 
— Editor Graphic. 

The author's great-grandfather. Deliverance Mead, 
heard the firing at Horseneck and climbed on top of his 
house at Indian Field to see what the trouble was, and he 
saw the horseman ride down the hill and the smoke from 
the guns of the tories as they fired at him. 

This historic spot is now marked by a monument erected 
by Putnam Hill Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo- 
lution, and unveiled on the sixteenth day of June, 1900. 

Colonel Holdridge, who was in command of the Conti- 
nental soldiers, retreated in an unsoldierly manner to Stan- 
wich, while General Putnam only intended that he should 
retire a short distance. From the account given of this 
officer (who was a Hartford man) by the Americans, he was 
totally unfit to be a soldier at all and much less an officer. 

The citizens hung about the village as near as they dared, 
hiding in the swamps and by-places during the whole day, 
taking advantage of every opportunity by some daring feat 
to secure prisoners and even fire upon the enemy. 

About an hour after the arrival of the main body of 
tories. Governor Tryon with his full force of about twelve 
hundred men took full possession of the town. He made his 
headquarters at the house of Henry Mead, who then kept a 
public house on the comer of Greenwich Avenue and La- 
fayette Place. The soldiers, meantime, separated themselves 
into squads and pillaged every house in the neighborhood ; a 
large body of them visited Cos Cob where they destroyed 
the salt works, which were on Bush's Point (now the ship- 
yard), a small sloop, and a storehouse. 

A party of them also entered the house of Daniel and 
Joshua Smith, which was situated on the westerly side of 



Tryon's Raid 169 

North Street near the Second Congregational Church. 
They found this house deserted by all its inhabitants, 
excepting a deaf old lady, the mother-in-law of Joshua 
Smith. As they entered they saw her standing at the head 
of the stairs. She not being able to hear, disobeyed their 
orders to come down, which so enraged the soldiers that one 
of them sprang up stairs, and cut her down with his sword. 
After this murder the house was set on fire and burned to the 
ground. This is said to have been the only house wholly 
burned by the British during the raid. 

The following houses were within the present limits of the 
Borough of Greenwich at that time. 

Colonel Jabez Fitch at the top of Put's Hill. 

Captain Israel Knapp opposite the present Episcopal 

Church. (Knapp Tavern.) 
An old building near the Soldiers' Monument (probably 

the town hall). 
Angel Husted just west of the Second Congregational 

Church. 
Jared Mead near the comer of Milbank and Putnam 

Avenues. 
Captain John Hobby opposite Sherwood Place. (Hobby 

Tavern.) 
Colonel Thomas Hobby about opposite Mason Street. 
Henry Mead on the comer of Putnam Avenue and La- 
fayette Place. (Mead Tavern.) 
An old house a little further west. 
Captain Matthew Mead next. 
Dr. Amos Mead on the brow of the hill about opposite the 

Field Point Road. 

The houses of those who held the enemy's permits were 
safe from these depredations, but the others were ransacked 
and plundered of every valuable. The wagons brought to. 
carry back the plunder were filled to their utmost capacity. 
After that everything was destroyed. The farmers made 
granaries of their garrets ; and the enemy, after cutting holes 
through the garret and main floors, shovelled all the grain 
into the cellars, where the cider barrels were knocked in and 



170 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

all mingled in one useless mass. The cider, however, was 
not all permitted to run upon the ground, so that by the 
middle of the afternoon nearly all of the soldiers had become 
so drunken with it as to be unfit for the least defence. A 
small guard was kept around Governor Try on' s headquar- 
ters, but it did not prevent one of the patriots from creeping 
slyly into the orchard in the midst of the enemy and firing 
a ball through the clapboards, which whistled close by 
Governor Tryon's head and struck the mantel-piece, from 
which it rebounded upon the floor. This startled Governor 
Try on so much that he, without waiting for his late dinner, 
gave immediate orders for a retreat. The officers now 
experienced the greatest difficulty in forming their men. 
Many were beastly drunk, and a great number made irregular 
marches, so that the militia managed to take several pris- 
oners. Although several shots were fired at the enemy 
during the course of the day, they did not lose a man until 
after the retreat had been ordered and he fell near Horseneck 
Brook, Others were wounded and the enemy was soon in a 
full and disorderly retreat. The militia so hotly pressed 
upon their rear, that the drivers cut their horses loose from 
an ammunition and a plunder wagon, and rode off after 
their comrades at full speed. The militia had just taken 
possession of them when General Putnam, with between one 
and two hundred Continentals and militia, returned from 
Stamford, too late, however, to render any assistance to the 
inhabitants. 

This was an eventful day for Greenwich. Houses 
though not burned were badly damaged ; all provisions had 
been destroyed by the enemy ; the tones for some time there- 
after had an almost complete mastery of the town; and it 
being in the midst of winter, it is absolutely impossible to 
depict the miseries of the people who, loving the American 
cause, were obliged to stay here. 

General Putnam says, "I cannot tell exactly the number 
we lost, though I don't think more than ten soldiers, and 
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Lieutenant David Brown was wounded during the raid, 
and his father, Roger Brown, sent the following petition to 
the May Session of the General Assembly, 1779, stating 
that "his son Lieutenant David Brown was wounded in 
several parts of the body in an action with the enemy under 
the command of General Tryon in their incursion into said 
Greenwich on the twenty-sixth day of February last, 
whereby the said David Brown was rendered unfit to be 
removed for a fortnight thereafter, during which time the 
memorialist had to convey attendants and necessaries for 
his said son upwards of six miles, that said memorialist has 
been at great expense in doctoring and nursing his said son, 
who has no property of his own, which the memorialist is 
unable to bear, having a numerous family to maintain." 
The Assembly ordered the account paid. 

The selectmen also asked relief from the May Session of 
the General Assembly, 1779, for the inhabitants of the town, 
stating that "the inhabitants of said town are much exposed 
to the hostile incursions of the enemy from the land and 
water, by means whereof they are liable to frequent rota- 
tions in military duty, whereby husbandry is in a great 
degree neglected and many of their fields lie open and 
uncultivated ; that said inhabitants suffer much from a gang 
of villains who plunder their cattle and horses in the night; 
that their sufferings are greatly increased in consequence of 
an invasion of a large body of British and German troops 
under the command of General Tryon on the twenty-sixth 
day of February last, who together with a number of tories 
with their teams surprised and entered into said town when 
they stripped a large number of the inhabitants of every- 
thing they could lay their hands on, destroyed what they 
could not conveniently carry off, and in their retreat have 
collected and drove off all the cattle, sheep and swine they 
could find; that by repeated robberies and depredations 
committed by the enemy and their emissaries many fam- 
ilies formerly in comfortable circumstances are thereby 
reduced to want and distress; praying that a committee be 



172 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

appointed to estimate the losses sustained by said inhabi- 
tants, occasioned aforesaid, and report make to some future 
Assembly, and also that the compassionate interposition of 
this Assembly may be extended to those individuals who 
cannot subsist without immediate relief. " A committee was 
appointed and ' ' directed to repair to Greenwich as soon as 
may be to estimate the losses of every individual in said 
town in consequence of the aforesaid hostile invasion of the 
enemy and report make to some future Assembly, that the 
real loss the unhappy sufferers have sustained by the desola- 
tions and ravages of the enemy may thereby be duly ascer- 
tained, " and certify "to the selectmen of said town the 
names of those whom they shall judge proper objects of 
immediate relief and the selectmen are hereby empowered 
to abate the taxes of such persons in part, or in whole, as the 
case may require. " 

At the October Session, 1779, General John Mead, one 
of the representatives of the Town of Greenwich, showed 
to the Assembly "that the committee appointed by the 
General Assembly in May last, by the frequent incursions 
of the enemy in said town, have not been able to enquire 
into and estimate the damages done by the enemy there, and 
since that time the enemy has made sundry incursions into 
that town, whereby the good people of said town have been 
further greatly distressed and many rendered incapable of 
paying state taxes." A committee was appointed to abate 
the taxes of such individuals in part, or in whole, as in their 
opinion are proper subjects of such abatement. 

It has, heretofore, been generally accepted as a fact, 
which the author has considered reliable until recently, that 
"among the most inveterate tories were a family by the 
name of Knapp, living in the place now called the Putnam 
Cottage," This house during the Revolutionary War was 
owned by Captain Israel Knapp, and kept as a tavern by 
him. He had two sons, Timothy and Israel; and five 
daughters, Mary, who married Stephen Mead, a Revolution- 
ary soldier; Elizabeth, never married; Hannah, who married 




JOHN ELBERT WHITE, PROPRIETOR OF ' YE GREENWICH SHOP," 

JEV/ELRY AND ART GOODS, BOROUGH OF GREENWICH. A 

DESCENDANT OF CAPTAIN ISRAEL KNAPP. 



Putnam Cottage — Knapp Family 173 

Abraham Husted, a Revolutionary soldier; Amy, who died 
young; and Amy, who married Captain Jabez Fitch. Jabez 
Fitch was town clerk and registrar all through the Revolution- 
ary War and for many years thereafter, and also a Revolu- 
tionary soldier; Israel Knapp, Jr., was chosen one of the 
Committee of Safety for the year 1 776 ; was one of the survey- 
ors of highways in 1 787 ; was made a mason in Union Lodge 
at Stamford in 1780, and was its master from 1781 to 1785. 
Colonel Thomas Hobby of the Continental Army, when he 
drew his will on the twenty-ninth day of October, 1783, 
named Israel Knapp as one of his executors. It is not at all 
probable that Colonel Hobby would have a tory as one of 
his executors, nor the town a tory on its Committee of Safety, 
nor select a tory for one of its officers in 1787, nor Union 
Lodge elect a tory as its master. 

Captain Israel Knapp was born on the thirteenth day of 
December, 1705. His will was admitted to probate at 
Stamford on the twenty-eighth day of August, 1783, and by 
it he gave the bulk of his estate, which he remained in undis- 
turbed possession of during the Revolutionary War, to his 
son Israel. There was, however, something the matter 
with his son Timothy, who was baptized as an adult on the 
seventeenth day of September, 1761, at Saint John's Epis- 
copal Church at Stamford, because when his father, Captain 
Israel Knapp, drew his will on the seventh day of June, 1777, 
he cut Timothy off with only a life estate in a farm of forty 
acres, for him and his wife Ruth, and after their death to 
their children; after making bequests to his widow and his 
other children, he devised all the rest, residue, and remainder 
of his estate to his son Israel. The farm left to Timothy and 
his wife during their lives was located on the westerly side 
of the Round Hill Road near the Howe Monument at Pecks- 
land. It is, therefore, evident that Timothy Knapp, who 
married Ruth, daughter of Thomas Close and Hannah Lyon, 
on the fourteenth day of September, 1757, by whom he had 
Mary, Thomas, Matthew, Ruth, Timothy, Israel, and 
Elizabeth, and his family were the tories, and the following 



174 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

incident related of his son Timothy, a lad of eighteen in 1777, 
corroborates this statement. 

Timothy had been paying his attentions with a view to 
marrying a daughter of Mr. Titus Mead, then living in an old 
house near the comer of Mead Avenue and North Street, 
and on her refusing his hand, he proudly told her that she 
should yet speak to him, and he would in turn take no notice 
of her. This threat was verified in a more terrible way than 
he intended. Horses were the most valuable booty that the 
refugees could lay their hands on, and knowing that Mr. 
Mead kept a fine horse, which he every night led up the 
oaken stairs to his garret, Knapp with two of his brothers 
went to the house to take it. Mr. Mead had knowledge of 
their approach and stationed a man who was with him at a 
back window upstairs. It was at dusk, and when the three 
men had come to the door-step, after some words, Mr. Mead 
fired, the ball passing through the door and entering the 
heart of Timothy Knapp. Without waiting to see the result 
of the shot, his brothers ran off in an easterly direction ; and 
at the same time the man stationed at the back window 
sprang out and ran with all his might. The remaining 
refugees, seeing him, and supposing it to be their brother, 
called out, "Run, Tim, run, " which made him run the faster. 
At last, the daughter, opening the door and seeing Timothy 
lying there, asked him if he were badly hurt, but he made no 
answer and it was found that he was dead. She had spoken 
to him, and he had taken no notice of her. On finding that 
he was dead, word was sent to his family that his body was 
lying as it fell on the door-step. They paid no attention to 
the messenger, and after the body had lain there for a con- 
siderable length of time, Mr. Mead buried it in a lot belonging 
to the Knapps, in a pair of bars, where they must have 
driven over it in going in and out. Afterwards the family 
took up the body and buried it close by the house where he 
was shot, and his bones still rest there. 

As near as can be ascertained, the land on which the 
Putnam Cottage now stands was granted by the Town of 



Putnam Cottage — Knapp Family 175 

Greenwich to Nathan Whelpley, who sold the same to Israel 
Knapp in 1 73 1. It is therefore probable that the Putnam 
Cottage was built about 1731, or soon after this purchase. 
Israel Knapp was bom on the thirteenth day of December, 
1705, married, ist, Mary, daughter of Thomas Lyon and 
Abigail Ogden, about 1730; 2nd, Amy, daughter of Joseph 
Marshall and Mary , in August, 1742; 3rd, Eliza- 
beth, widow of Dr. Thomas Hugerford, on the seventh day 
of January, 1762. 

The records of the County Court of Fairfield County, at 
Bridgeport, show that a license "to keep a public house of 
entertainment and retail strong drink in Greenwich" was 
granted to Israel Knapp in 1 754, and his house was run as a 
tavern until the year 1790, and was known as the "Knapp 
Tavern." 

It is related that General Putnam stopped at this hos- 
telry the night before Tryon's raid, the night of the twenty- 
fifth of February, 1779, and that on that evening a ball was 
given at the house of Moses Husted at Pecksland, a short 
distance south of the present schooUiouse, and on the site of 
the residence formerly of William A. Husted. General 
Putnam attended, taking a lady on his horse behind him, 
according to the custom of those days. This lady, after- 
wards Mrs. Rogers, was a daughter of David Bush of 
Cos Cob Landing, who lived in the house now occupied by 
Edward P. Holley. Some say it was his daughter Grace, 
but she was not bom until 1788, some nine years thereafter, 
died in February, 1858, and was buried in the Episcopal 
Cemetery, where anybody can see her name on the family 
monument. It is located on the south side, east of the cen- 
tre. It is also stated that it was late when General Putnam 
accompanied her home, so that he did not leave her father's 
residence for Horseneck until nearly daylight on the morning 
of the twenty-sixth. This led many to suppose that his 
headquarters were at Cos Cob. It is further related, that 
he was in the Knapp Tavern taking his usual morning shave 
when he saw, through the looking-glass, the British approach- 



176 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

ing, grabbed his coat, ran out of the house, jumped on his 
horse, and escaped. 

The author has interviewed some of the descendants of 
Captain Israel Knapp, and has been informed by them that 
there never existed any traditions in the family of General 
Putnam's sojourn at the Knapp Tavern. 

Captain Israel Knapp died in 1783, and on the probate 
of his will title to his place on Putnam Avenue passed to his 
son, Israel Knapp, Jr., who was bom on the first day of May, 
1743, and married Margaret Hugerford about 1767, by 
whom he had : 

Fanny, b. in 1768, d. June 11, 1788, m. William A. 
Thompson. 

Israel, bapt. Oct. 14, 1770, d. young. 

Frances, b. in 1771, m. Charles K. Thompson. 

Sally W., bapt. Feb. 13, 1774, m. David Wood. 

Elizabeth H., b. Aug. 28, 1777, d. in 1848, m. Oct. 8, 
1795, John Mackay, Jr. 

Anna, bapt. Mch. 17, 1782, m. William Thorn of New 
York. 

Cornelia, bapt. Jan. 6, 1788, d. in New Orleans, m. 
Read. 

Israel Knapp, Jr., died intestate on the twentieth day of 
August, 1790, seized of the premises formerly known as the 
"Knapp Tavern," later the "Tracy House," and now 
known as the "Putnam Cottage." His son-in-law, David 
Wood, a Revolutionary soldier, seems to have acquired the 
title and conveyed the same to Hezekiah Tracy on the eighth 
day of March, 18 14. Hezekiah Tracy succeeded Colonel 
Jabez Fitch, a Revolutionary soldier and a son-in-law of 
Captain Israel Knapp, as town clerk and registrar in 18 14. 
He married Huldah, daughter of Nehemiah Mead, by whom 
he had two children, Horatio Nelson Tracy and John Jay 
Tracy. He died intestate on the tenth day of July, 1829, 
his widow and children surviving him, and was buried in the 
Mead family plot near the comer of Lafayette Place and 
William Street. His son, John Jay Tracy, succeeded him as 



King Street Skirmish 177 

town clerk and registrar. Horatio Nelson Tracy conveyed 
his interest to his mother, and when she died in 1837 she 
devised all her right therein to John Jay Tracy. The latter 
died intestate on the fourth day of December, 1854, and was 
buried in the Episcopal Cemetery. From the Tracy family, 
title passed to Francis Tomes, Jr., who mortgaged the 
premises to Benjamin Tomes, which was assigned to Adrian 
Iselin and foreclosed by him and he became the owner 
thereof. Adrian Iselin conveyed the premises to J. Fred- 
erick Holmes by deed recorded on the first day of May, 1878. 
From the Holmes family the record title passed on the 
fifteenth day of January, 1902, to Henry H. Adams, who 
bought the property with money collected by him for Put- 
nam Hill Chapter, D. A. R., and on the twenty-fourth day of 
November, 1902, the record title passed to the "Israel 
Putnam House Association." In order to settle a dispute 
in regard to the title an agreement was entered into on the 
tenth day of May, 1909, between the Israel Putnam House 
Association, and the Putnam Hill Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution, both incorporated, whereby it was de- 
clared that the premises "are held in trust by the said Israel 
Putnam House Association for the use and benefit of the 
Putnam Hill Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion, incorporated," etc. 

One of the great disadvantages which the people were 
subjected to during the whole war was the absolute want of 
bayonets. Few companies could be found wholly armed 
with these valuable weapons, but Lieutenant Mosher was 
the commander of a small company of men, who were amply 
provided with them. This company may have been larger, 
but consisted of only eighteen soldiers at the time here men- 
tioned. Seven of them were from the farm of General 
Pierre Van Cortland of Cortlandt Manor, about half-a-dozen 
of them from Greenwich, and the remainder from the 
vicinity of the Town of Harrison. On the fourth day of 
December, 1781,' Captain Richard Sackett of the same 

' Heath's Mem., p. 324. 



178 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

company was taken prisoner, having unwisely separated 
himself from his company. The light-horse of the en- 
emy, under Colonel Holmes (a tory) and Captain Kipp, 
attacked the company. The latter retreated to the vicinity 
of a tavern recently kept by William Merritt on King 
Street, where they formed to withstand the charge of the 
troop of horse. Without shelter of any kind, and upon an 
open plain, these eighteen men successfully stood charge 
after charge from the troop. Lieutenant Mosher ordered 
his men not to fire a shot, but sternly to await the onset. 
At the first charge, Colonel Holmes, finding himself repulsed, 
ordered Lieutenant Mosher to surrender, or he would cut 
him to pieces. The only reply vouchsafed was, " Cut and be 
damned''; and with silence he withstood the next charge, 
but after the third charge he ordered his men to fire on the 
retiring troops, which they did with terrible execution. 
One man was killed and eight dangerously wounded. Cap- 
tain Kipp, mortally. The horses of Colonel Holmes and 
Captain Kipp were also killed under them. Lieutenant 
Mosher's men, taking advantage of the discomfiture of their 
assailants, escaped to a neighboring piece of woods, not 
having a man even wounded. It is said to have been the 
most astonishing feat, on the part of both officers and men, 
that was enacted during the whole war. General Washing- 
ton often spoke of this affair, and it was reported all over 
Europe, to show the utility of the bayonet, and that a small 
body of infantry thus armed may successfully resist a 
strong body of cavalry. Several of the enemy were severely 
wounded before they were fired upon. 

At one time during the war the nearest American outpost 
to New York in this vicinity was at Byram. The enemy 
being bent upon a depredatory expedition to North Stam- 
ford and Long Ridge came suddenly in the night and cut 
every one of the guard to pieces. The next guard in their 
way was posted at the right-angular turn of the road at 
Pecksland. Here they also cut the guard to pieces. This 
whole expedition seems to have been marked by bloody and 



Incidents of the Revolution — Tories 179 

horrible deeds, and it is said that Tarleton himself com- 
manded the force. The whole populace around collected 
and followed the enemy to attack and worry them on their 
return. An ambuscade was formed at a defile at Round 
Hill, where the road passes through steep rocks overgrown 
with thick laurel. At other places on their return the 
British and tories were sorely pressed, but here a deadly fire 
poured in upon them killing and wounding great numbers. 
On that day, in the retreat one of their regiments lost their 
standard, to their great mortification and disgrace. 

The petition of Nathan Finch of Greenwich to the May 
Session of the General Assembly, 1779, shows that "at about 
nineteen years of age he was persuaded by his master, to 
whom he was an apprentice, to go into New York, that he 
made his escape from the enemy at the first opportunity, 
and on his return home was taken up and committed to 
prison, where he hath long been confined." The Assembly 
directed that he be released and set at liberty, so that he may 
return and live with his father and friends at said Green- 
wich. 

The petition of John Anderson, a refugee from New 
York, now a resident of Greenwich, shows, "that in his 
escape from New York the greatest part of his estate fell 
into the hands of the enemy, and that he retired to said 
Town of Greenwich for safety, where he has resided since 
September, 1776, that he is reduced in his estate and unable 
to pay his taxes. " Ordered that his taxes be abated. 

Extract from the m.inute book kept by Peter Mead, Jus- 
tice of the Peace for the County of Fairfield. The first entry 
in the book was in 1764 and the last in 1778. "Fairfield 
County. In Greenwich on the 14th Dec, 1778, at an 
Inferior Court holden before me, Peter Mead, Justice of the 
Peace for said County." 

"Samuel Palmer, 2nd, of said Greenwich, is by warrant 
brought before the coiu-t, to be examined respecting the 
complaint of Abraham Hays, one of the grand jurymen for 
the Town of Greenwich. Said complaint against the said 



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Samuel Palmer is that he is guilty of the act of high treason 
against this and the other states of the United States of 
America for driving and selling to the enemy a pair of oxen 
and a cart, as per writ and complaint, dated 9th Dec, 1778, 
on file appears. 

"On examination said Samuel Palmer confessed that he 
did drive and sell within the enemy's line a pair of oxen and 
a cart and that he entered the said enemy's line by means of 
a passport. Thereupon this court gives judgment that said 
Samuel Palmer shall be committed to the Fairfield County 
jail." 

Rev. Jonathan Murdock, pastor of the Second Congrega- 
tional Church, although he early took the oath of fidelity to 
this state, and in the beginning of the war showed much zeal 
in the American cause, in the pulpit, as well as elsewhere, 
yet contrary to his oath of fidelity, on or about the tenth 
day of July, 1779, voluntarily went to a British officer with a 
flag, then at the house of Seth Mead, and there acknowledged 
his political friendship to the British, and soon after this 
began to justify trade with them. In May, 1780, he was 
with his own consent taken by Delancey's Corps and paroled, 
only to come to their lines a prisoner when called for, but 
under no restraint by his parole, as to his preaching, or pray- 
ing; and although offered an exchange, his friendship to the 
British interest prevailed over his oath of fidelity and duty 
to his country, and he refused to be exchanged. On or about 
the tenth day of October, 1779, his cows were, as he said, 
taken from him on a Friday night, and on the next Sabbath 
he went after them down among the enemy. He obtained a 
permit to take them, found them, sold them to the enemy, 
and bought British goods with the money, contrary to law. 

Charges were preferred against him by the society of the 
church and he was dismissed as its pastor in 1785. 

1779. July 12. Minutes of the Governor and Council 
show that nine tories were captured at Greenwich. 
Names not given. 



Tories i8i 

1779, Aug. 28. Minutes of the Governor and Council 
show that Nathan Merritt of Greenwich was ordered 
exchanged. 

1779, October Session of the General Assembly. Darling 
Whelpley, Solomon Ferris, William Peck, and David 
Washburn, under sentence of death for the crime of 
high treason, sentence was suspended until the first 
Wednesday of March, 1780. They were finally 
exchanged. 

1779, Oct. 28. Minutes of the Governor and Council 
show the capture of the following tories of Greenwich : 
Daniel Lockwood, Isaac Peck, Gilbert Lockwood, 
Solomon Wright, Isaac Anderson, James Merrill 
(Merritt), Benjamin Wilson, and Nathan Merrill 
(Merritt). 

1780, Feb. 4. Minutes of the Governor and Council show 
the following suspected tories of Greenwich, now in 
jail: Jabez Sherwood, Jr., Hezekiah Hobby, Solo- 
mon Merritt, Jr., Silas Knapp, William Marshall, 
Joseph Galpin, and Jotham Mead. They were 
ordered confined in the County of Hartford. 

The following persons having gone over to and joined 
the enemy, their estates were declared forfeited and confis- 
cated: (See Stamford Probate Records.) 

Adams, Nathaniel, Vol. 6, p. 630. 

Addington, Henry, Vol. 6, pp 177 and 557. 

Austin, Samuel, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 562. 
Brush, Shubael, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 151. 
Carpenter, Daniel, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388. 

Carpenter, George, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 152. 
Carpenter, Ruth, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 152. 
Carpenter, Zeno, Vol. 6, p. 177. 

Davis, EHsha, Vol. 6, pp. 177 and 366. 

Galpin, Joseph, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388. 

Hendrie, William, Vol. 6, p. 634. 

Knapp, David, Vol. 6, pp. 365 and 630. 

Knapp, Nehemiah, Jr., Vol. 6, pp. 365 and 638. 



1 82 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Lockwood, Jonathan, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. ;^88, and 

4th, Vol. 6, pp. 151 and 566. 

Lockwood, Millington, Vol. 4, p. 315. 
Lyon, Stephen, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 172. 
Merritt, Daniel, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388. 

Merritt, Ezekiel, Vol. 6, p. 177. 

Palmer, Nathaniel, Vol. 6, pp. 341 and 529. 

Palmer, Robert, Vol. 6, pp. 341 and 529. 

Partelow, Jehiel, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 151. 
Partelow, Matthew, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 151. 
Peck, William, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, pp. 171 and 640. 
Perot, John, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 151. 
Whelpley, Darling, Vol. 4, p. 185, Vol. 5, p. 388, and 

Vol. 6, p. 152. 

At a special town meeting holden on the twelfth day of 
August, 1783, 

the town taking into consideration the distress to which 
the inhabitants are reduced by the warring and plun- 
dering of the enemy and the constant quartering of troops 
for the defence of this state in the town during the late 
war with Great Britain and the great injury done thereby 
and that it was brought to the town during the course of a 
war undertaken for the defence and security of the common 
liberties of the state in which it was understood and expected 
that the whole body should bear the extraordinary burden 
and whereas the General Assembly did make a grant for the 
whole and make payment of a part of the damages done at 
Danbury accidently thrown on any particular part and con- 
sidering it is altogether just to us, have thereupon agreed 
and voted that Brigadier-General John Mead be agent for 
the town to make use of such measures by memorial to the 
General Assembly or otherwise to obtain redress of the town 
grievances in this behalf and for a repair of the damages to 
the sufferers occasioned by the war excepting to those 
sufferers who are known to be inimical to the liberties and 
independence of the United States of America. This 



Effect of the Revolution 183 

meeting is adjourned to next freeman's meeting day in 
September to begin immediately after freemen's meeting is 
over. 

At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Green- 
wich convened in town meeting on the sixteenth day of 
September, 1783, the inhabitants resumed the consideration 
of the grievances partly discussed at the preceding meeting, 
and on reading a copy of the resolve of the Honorable 
General Assembly of this state on a memorial preferred to 
said Assembly by the representative of this town in May 
last, the inhabitants thereby agree in the following proposi- 
tions : 

First: That the commission granted to the committee 
decreed by said resolve does not empower said committee to 
enter fully into the grievances complained of and damages 
done to the inhabitants during the late war (not heretofore 
estimated) as it extends only to losses and damages occa- 
sioned by the enemy but does not reach the losses and 
damages occasioned by this being a garrison town and its 
inhabitants harassed and distressed by both parties. 

Second: That from the confidence that the inhabitants 
of this town have in the wisdom and justice of the Legisla- 
ture of the state they are persuaded that nothing but misrep- 
resentations of some men either through ignorance of their 
real suffering or worse motives could have induced that 
Honorable body to appoint a committee with such limited 
powers as only warranted to consider partially a subject 
that ought in justice and equity to be taken upon a larger 
scale. 

Third: That the burden of a war carried on for the 
general defence of a state, whether occasioned by friends or 
foes, ought to be borne as equally as possible by the citizens 
at large and that unless the principle is adopted and applied 
to the sufferings of the inhabitants of the town they are so 
far from being on equal footing with the greater part of their 
fellow citizens in the state that the contrary must doom 
them to a species of oppression incompatible with the equi- 
table maxims of legislation. 

Fourth: That the inhabitants of this town do not 
entertain the most distant thought of an exemption from 



184 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

such part of the pubHc burden as they are able to bear, but 
when they view the present alarming situation of the town 
for want of resources, occasioned by the check put upon their 
industry for years past, and the powers of Providence on 
their labor in permitting their crops of wheat on which they 
chiefly depended to be cut ofif this season, should they under 
these circumstances be called upon for a collection of their 
full proportion of the state taxes, they will be reduced to such 
hardships as must terminate in an uncomfortable ruin to 
themselves and families. 

Whereupon, it is agreed and voted by the said inhabi- 
tants that Brigadier-General Mead, the town agent, do 
pursue such means by memorials to the General Assembly 
at the ensuing October Session predicated on the foregoing 
sentiments or otherwise, as he may judge most eligible for 
the purpose of obtaining redress of the grievances aforesaid 
by the appointment of a judicious committee invested with 
such power as the complicated distresses of this town evi- 
dently require, or in such other way as the Honorable Legis- 
lature may in their wisdom direct. 

It was, at the annual town meeting held on the eighth 
day of December, 1783, 

Resolved that the selectmen do not take bonds of any 
person or persons that have gone over to and joined the 
enemy during the late war for the purpose of making said 
person or persons inhabitants of this town, or giving him or 
them a residence therein. 

On the twelfth day of November, 1787, a meeting was 
held to elect delegates to a convention to be holden at Hart- 
ford on the first Thursday of the following January, to 
ratify or disapprove of the constitution recommended by the 
Federal convention held at Philadelphia, which resulted in the 
choice of Dr. Amos Mead and Colonel Jabez Fitch, as such 
delegates. It was also voted by the inhabitants of the town 
to * ' approve the doings of the Federal convention lately held 
at Philadelphia, and thereupon directed their delegates 
to use their influence in the convention to be holden at Hart- 
ford on the first Thursday of January next, to establish and 



New York and Boston Stage Line 185 

ratify the constitution recommended by the said Federal 
convention." 

The stage Hne between New York and Boston was first 
estabHshed in June, 1772, and the following announcement 
of the running of stages is taken from Baird's History of Rye, 
New York: 

New York, 24th June, 1772. 
The Stage Coach between New York and Boston. 

Which for the first time sets out this day from Mr, 
Fowler's Tavern (formerly kept by Mr. Stout) at Fresh 
Water, in New York, will continue to go the course between 
Boston and New York, so as to be at each of those places 
once a fortnight, coming in on Saturday evening and setting 
out to return, by the way of Hartford, on Monday Morning. 

The price to passengers will be four pence. New York, or 
three pence lawful money per mile, and baggage at a reason- 
able rate. 

Gentlemen and ladies who choose to encourage this 
useful, new and expensive undertaking, may depend upon 
good usage, and that the coach will always put up at houses 
on the road where the best entertainment is provided. 

The stage coaches will next trip arrive at New York and 
Boston on Saturday, July nth, and will set out from thence 
to Hartford on Monday the 13th, meeting at Hartford on 
Wednesday the 15th, where, after staying a week, they will 
set out again on Wednesday the 23rd, for New York and 
Boston, where they will arrive on Saturday the 25th, and set 
out to return on Monday the 27th. 

If on trial the subscribers find encouragement, they will 
perform the stage once a week, only altering the day of 
setting out from New York and Boston to Thursday instead 
of Monday morning. 

Jonathan and Nicholas Brown. 

In 1787 the stages made three trips every week in sum- 
mer and two in winter. They started out from Hall's 



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Tavern, 49 Courtland Street, New York, on Monday, Wed- 
nesday, and Friday mornings, and arrived in Boston in six 
days. The fare was four pence per mile. 

The old toll-gate was established in Greenwich in 1792, 
and at a session of the General Assembly held in October of 
that year, it was: 

Resolved, that there may be erected and established by 
the commissioners in and by this resolve to be appointed, 
and at such places on the main county, or stage, road in 
the Town of Greenwich as the said commissioners shall 
judge most expedient, a gate, or turnpike, for the pur- 
pose of collecting a toll from persons travelling the said 
road, etc., and it was further resolved that Jabez Fitch, 
Ebenezer Mead and William Knapp be appointed said 
commissioners. 

In 1802, "The Greenwich and Ridgefield Turnpike Com- 
pany" was incorporated, to run from Ridgefield, through 
Poundridge, through Bedford, and Stanwich, to the meet- 
ing house in the West Society of Greenwich, the Second 
Congregational Church. 

In 1803 the question of granting a charter to the Con- 
necticut Turnpike Company was before the General Assem- 
bly, and at a special town meeting held on the third day of 
October, 1803, it was voted: 

That Jabez Fitch and Elkanah Mead be the agents to 
attend the General Assembly, to be holden at New Haven on 
the second Thursday of October, to oppose the memorial of 
Joseph Walker and others praying for a turnpike road from 
Stratford River to Byram River, which is now pending 
before said assembly. 

It was further voted that if our said agents found that 
their opposition would be of but little, or no avail, then in 
that case they are to make as good a bargain as they can, by 
making an agreement with the memorialists, to run from the 
Stamford meeting house to the bridge over the Mianus 
River by Mr. Peter Burtus, from thence to the meeting 
house in the West Society, and from thence to the Byram 
River. 



Toll Gate 187 

The charter was granted, however, and the company 
took charge of the present Post Road from the Byram River 
on the west to the Stratford River on the east, absorbing the 
various local companies, where it connected with other turn- 
pike companies for New York, or Boston. In order to raise 
funds for maintenance, expenses, and dividends, it was 
authorized to collect tolls from the users of the road. The 
old toll gate was situated west of Horseneck Brook, about 
half way up the hill, and was used as such until about 1854, 
when the company, owing to railroad and steamboat compe- 
tition, which it was unable to meet, surrendered its charter, 
and the town repossessed itself of the road. 



CHAPTER XI. 

WAR OF l8l2 — SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF 1 8 12 — INCIDENTS 
OF THE WAR OF l8l2 — MAJOR EBENEZER MEAD — COL- 
ONEL JABEZ FITCH— STATE CONSTITUTION OF 1818 — 

VISIT OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE — TOWN BUILDING 

BRIDGEPORT PROPOSED AS A COUNTY SEAT — ^WAR WITH 
MEXICO — PROBATE COURT — TOWN POORHOUSE. 

The principal cause of the War of 1812 was the claim 
made by England to the services of every subject born 
within her dominions, regardless of how long he might have 
been a resident, or citizen, of this country. War was 
declared in June, 1812, and fought out, largely, on the sea. 
It excited here comparatively little local concern, or interest. 
The town records show no public meetings, or action taken 
with reference to the war. The inhabitants, however, were 
called on for such service as the exigencies of the situation 
required and they responded with alacrity. 

In December, 1812, Commodore Hardy, with a British 
fleet, appeared off the eastern end of Long Island Sound, 
and for the greater part of the year 18 13 had almost complete 
control of the waters of the sound. Many vessels were 
burned, or sunk, by the enemy, and in September they 
pushed through the sound nearly to Throgg's Neck. 

At this time the people of Greenwich and vicinity were 
greatly alarmed, and feared the enemy would attempt to 
land. Thereupon Samuel Dean of Stamford, Colonel of the 
9th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, ordered out several 
details from the various companies to guard the coast. The 
Greenwich companies were under the command of : 



Soldiers in the War of 1812 189 

Mead, Ebenezer, Jr.,' Major, of Horseneck. 

Captain Seih Mead's Company. 

Mead, Seth, Captain, of Horseneck. 

Husted, Drake, Lieutenant. 

Sergeants. 
Banks, John, Howe, Jonas, Lyon, Samuel. 

Corporals. 
Avery, John, Hobby, Thomas, Lyon, Merritt. 

Musicians. 
Mead, Bush, Merritt, Abraham. 

Privates. 

Blodgett, Jonathan, Mead, Selah, 

Brown, Robert, Merritt, Benjamin, 

Bush, David W., Merritt, James, 

Collins, Edward, Merritt, Solomon, Jr., 

Dunton, Royal, Merritt, William, 
Greenman (Grumman), Epenetus, Peck, Ard, 

Lyon, David, Piatt, George, 

Lyon, Floyd, Piatt, Jeremiah, 

Lyon, Shubal, Scofield, David, 

Mead, James, Smith, Benjamin, 

Mead, Job, Tracy, Hezekiah, 

Mead, Luke, Wilson, Nehemiah, 3rd. 
Mead, Rogers, 

Captain Horton Reynolds' Company. 
Hobby, David, Lieutenant, of Horseneck. 

Sergeants. 
Mead, Edmund, Reynolds, Abraham, Rundle, Jonathan. 

Corporals. 
Finch, Henry, Rundle, David. 

' See Connecticut in the War of 1812. 



190 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Brush, Joseph, 
Davis, Martin, 
Fairchild, Ogden, 
Ferris, Sandy, 
Finch, Jeremiah, 
Hobby, Lewis, 
Jessup, Samuel, 
Jones, David, 
Knapp, Henry, 
Lane, Josiah, 



Privates. 

Lockwood, Henry, 
Palmer, James, 
Reynolds, Ambrose, 
Reynolds, Gideon, 
Rogers, Nehemiah, 
Rundle, Amos, 
Sempeny (Timpany), John, 
Smith, Isaac, Jr., 
Studwell, Richard, 
Studwell, Solomon, 
Tempeny, William. 



Captain Alexander Hendrie's Company. 

Hendrie, Alexander, Captain, of Greenwich, Old Town. 

Ferris, Stephen, Jr., Lieutenant. 

Ferris, John, Ensign. 



Ferris, Samuel, 



Lockwood, Frederick, 



Bailey, Asa P., 
Burley, Henry, 
Ferris, George, Jr., 
Ferris, Gideon, 
Ferris, James, Jr., 
Ferris, Samuel, 
Horton, John, 
Husted, Henry, 
Husted, Samuel, 
Johnson, Robert, 



Reynolds, Jared. 



Sergeants. 
Knapp, Isaac, 

Corporals. 

Peck, Isaac. 

Privates. 

Knapp, Enos, Jr., 
Lockwood, David, Jr., 
Lockwood, George, 
Lockwood, Henrj/, 
Lockwood, John, 
Lockwood, John H., 
Lockwood, Morris, 
Lockwood, Noah, Jr., 
Lockwood, Richard, 
Palmer, Oliver, 
Palmer, Warren. 



Time in service, September 8, 1813 to September 13, 
1 813, five days. 

In the Regular Army. 

Doane, Joshua, private, 25th Infantry. 

Knapp, Jonathan, " 37th Infantry. 



Incidents of the War of 1 8i 2 191 

Lockhart, William, private 25th Infantry. 

Lockwood, Shubal, " 25th Infantry. 

Peck, Andrew, Musician, 25th Infantry. 

Sweetland, Lionel R., private, 29th Infantry. 

White, John, " 25th Infantry. 

The above companies were posted on Field Point, on 
Mead's Point, and on Greenwich Point, respectively. 

During one of the nights when these points were guarded. 
Captain Elijah Reynolds undertook to bring his vessel 
round from Bush's harbor into the Mianus River. Being 
seen and well known from Field Point, he was permitted to 
pass out, but the sentinels at the mouth of the Mianus River, 
having hailed him to no purpose and supposing it might be an 
enemy, fired upon him. However, lying close to the deck, 
he passed on, appearing to take no notice of his challengers. 
One of the sentinels, John Horton, now supposed it certainly 
to be a British vessel, and throwing down his gun, and calling 
upon his locomotive powers, cried, "Now, legs, if you ever did 
your duty, do it now. " It is gravely said by those who heard 
and saw him, that he tore down three rows of standing com 
in making his hasty retreat from the supposed place of 
danger. 

Bush Mead, one of the Horseneck Company, having been 
sent from Field Point after some straw, found on being chal- 
lenged by the sentinel on his return that he had forgotten the 
password, and finally stammered out in reply, "Straw, 
straw for beds." 

Selah Mead, one of the sentinels on Field Point, seeing 
but little excitement arising from the approach of the enemy, 
put into execution a practical joke of his own. Equipping 
himself in his birthday suit, he slipped without noise into the 
water, and swam silently arotmd the point, where he found 
another sentinel asleep, whom he suddenly clasped around 
the waist, and shook to wakefulness, who awoke the neigh- 
borhood with his cries, supposing he was in the power of a 
real live mermaid. 

For some time the blockade of the sound continued 



192 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

impenetrable to all vessels. Captain Daniel Merritt of the 
sloop Orio?i, however, watching his opportunity, when the 
whole British fleet lay east of Greenwich Point, slipped out of 
the harbor and sailed safely to New York. 

Soon after this the enemy's ships withdrew to the eastern 
part of the sound, and the several companies were dismissed 
from guard duty. In case of alarm, however, the bells were 
to be rung, and one fine morning, shortly after, the greatest 
consternation was created by the fierce ringing of the alarm- 
bells. Men hurried to and fro, and the news spread that the 
British had landed on Greenwich Point during the night, and 
the people, especially in Old Greenwich, were in a terrible 
flurry. The militia was hastily summoned and Major 
Ebenezer Mead, Jr., having collected his forces at Horseneck, 
hastened to the scene of action. Arriving at the meeting- 
house in Old Greenwich, about two miles from the position 
known to be occupied by the supposed enemy, he came to a 
halt and called for volunteers to reconnoitre. Whitman 
Mead, a son of Captain Sylvanus Mead of the French and 
Indian and the Revolutionary Wars, was the only one there 
who had courage enough to volunteer. Carrying a white 
handkerchief fastened to a cane he started off, and on 
investigation found the supposed enemy to be a fleet of 
American gunboats under Commodore Lewis, who had been 
in search of one of the enemy's privateers, and had landed 
upon the point for breakfast. Mr. Mead so liked the joke 
that he stayed with the Commodore much longer than he 
should have done, and breakfasted with him. In the mean- 
time our forces were in the greatest anxiety of suspense, and 
supposed that their scout had been taken prisoner and their 
flag of truce violated. He, however, returned safely and 
explained all to the officers of our forces, and they thereupon 
dismissed the troops and returned home. The treaty of 
peace of December 24, 18 14, ended the war, and the Battle 
of New Orleans was fought January 8, 181 5, before notice of 
the termination of hostilities had been received. 

Major-General Ebenezer Mead was a direct descendant 



General Ebenezer Mead 193 

from the first John Mead through the Ebenezer branch, 
and was bom on the twelfth day of December, 1748. He 
served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Cap- 
tain Joseph Hobby's Company, 9th Regiment, Militia, 
Colonel John Mead, during the latter part of 1776, 
and the early part of 1777. The regiment was ordered 
to Westchester County, New York, and employed in 
guarding its borders. During one of the skirmishes 
he was shot through one of his lungs by a musket ball, 
which incapacitated him for further military service for 
some time. He stood in the doorway of his house just 
beyond the foot of Put's Hill and saw General Putnam ride 
down the hill, when chased by the British ; saw him turn in 
his saddle as he gained the turnpike at the foot of the hill, 
and heard him holler "damn ye" to the tories, who were 
firing at him from the top of the hill. 

After the Revolutionary War he gained distinction as a 
training master in the militia, was promoted to brigadier- 
general in 1 80 1, and as a result of his meritorious service in 
connection with the Connecticut Militia, he had conferred 
upon him the rank of major-general, under which title he 
served with distinction through the latter years of his mili- 
tary career. He died on the seventh day of February, 1818, 
and was buried at the foot of Put's Hill, near Ten Acres. 
The only mark now left to distinguish this veteran of the 
Revolutionary War is a broken and well-worn stone on which 
is inscribed: 

"Major-General Ebenezer Mead, died Feb. 7, 1818, 
aged 70 years. " 

It was his son, however, bom on the second day of March, 
1778, who was first major in the 9th Regiment during the 
War of 1 8 12, as appears by a search through the Connecticut 
Registers, and not the senior Ebenezer Mead, as heretofore 
believed to have been. At the time of the British scare, 
caused by the appearance of a British fleet, imder Commo- 



194 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

dore Hardy, off the eastern end of Long Island Sound, 
which had almost complete control of the sound to Throgg's 
Neck, Major Ebenezer Mead, Jr., was detailed to guard the 
coast against an invasion of the enemy. He had his forces 
stationed at several of the most strategical points, and 
through his vigilance the enemy was unable to effect a land- 
ing and was finally compelled to withdraw its forces from 
the waters of the sound. He was colonel of the 9th 
Regiment from 1 816 to 1820. 

At a special town meeting held on the twenty-eighth day 
of March, 18 14, Hezekiah Tracy was chosen town clerk and 
registrar in place of Colonel Jabez Fitch resigned. "Voted 
that the thanks of this meeting be given to Colonel Jabez 
Fitch for the fidelity and correctness of his conduct in the 
execution of the office of town clerk in this town and his 
great care and attention in preserving the records during the 
great length of time he has held said office," which was 
since the first day of January, 1777, and for over thirty- 
seven years continuously. 

At a special town meeting held on the twenty -fifth day of 
March, 181 8, for the purpose of taking into consideration 
and expressing an opinion on the subject of the formation of a 
written constitution of civil government for the State of 
Connecticut, it was: 

Resolved, that in all well regulated communities of 
mankind it is essential to the welfare of the same that there 
be a sound compact originating in and emanating directly 
from the people defining the powers granted to their rulers 
and those retained, that it is also the duty of the people from 
time to time to amend or frame anew the charter of their 
rights, as experience may suggest, or change of circumstances 
may render necessary. 

Resolved, that whereas the people of this state have 
from time immemorial yielded an implied consent to the 
present form of government, we feel no disposition to deny 
its legitimacy or to impair its obligations, by denying the 
validity of acts and laws made under it, but deeming it 
materially imperfect in many important particulars; there- 



State Constitution — Visit of Gen. Lafayette 195 

fore, we are induced to declare our opinion that a written 
constitution of civil government, made and approved by the 
people, will have a tendency to improve the internal peace 
and happiness of the state and promote the general welfare. 

Resolved, that it be respectfully recommended to the 
good people of this state to express their opinions freely and 
publicly on this important subject. 

Resolved, that the town clerk be directed to furnish an 
attested copy of the proceedings of this town meeting to the 
representatives from this town to the next General Assembly 
and to the editors of newspapers published at Hartford and 
Bridgeport. 

On the fourth day of July, 18 18, a special town meeting 
was held to elect delegates to meet in convention at Hart- 
ford on the fourth Wednesday of the following August, 
and if they saw fit to form a constitution of civil government 
for the people of this state, which resulted in the choice of 
Clark Sanford and Enos Lockwood, as such delegates. 

At a special town meeting held on the first day of Octo- 
ber, 1 81 8, pursuant to a resolve of the General Assembly of 
the preceding May and the recommendations of the con- 
vention of the fifteenth day of September, 1818, for the 
purpose of ratifying the constitution recommended by the 
convention begun and held at Hartford on the fourth Wed- 
nesday of August last; the town clerk submitted said con- 
stitution to the qualified voters of the town then present for 
their approbation and ratification, and thereupon the ques- 
tion being put there were in favor of ratifying said consti- 
tution ninety votes and thirty-seven votes were against it. 

Pursuant^ to a formal invitation from Congress through 
President Monroe to visit the United States, General La- 
fayette, after declining to be transported in a ship of war, left 
Paris on the eleventh day of July, 1824, for Havre, and took 
passage from that port on the American merchant ship 
Cadmus, Captain Allyn, on the thirteenth day of July, 
1824, for New York, He was accompanied by his son, 

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196 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

George Washington Lafayette; his secretary, M. Auguste 
Levasseur; and his valet, Bastien. The ship arrived off 
quarantine in the harbor of New York on the fifteenth day 
of August, 1824, where General Lafayette was met by a 
delegation of prominent New Yorkers, and in due time 
escorted to the City of New York, amidst every demonstra- 
tion^of joy that a grateful people could bestow. 

On Friday morning, August 20, 1824, General Lafayette 
started from the City Hall, accompanied by a large escort 
under the command of General Prosper M. Wetmore, for a 
tour through New England. On the General's arrival at 
Byram bridge, the state line between New York and Con- 
necticut, at about four o'clock, he was met by a Connecticut 
Troop of Horse under the command of Major Huggins, and a 
salute was fired as soon as he entered this state. At the 
junction of Putnam Avenue and the Field Point Road, he 
was met by a committee of representative Greenwich 
citizens, consisting of : 

Isaac Howe, Peter Mead, 

Rev. Isaac Lewis, Thomas A. Mead, 

Alvan Mead, Asahel Palmer, 

Ebenezer Mead, James Smith, 

Jonas Mead, John Jay Tracy, 

and others, who extended the hospitalities of the town, and a 
reception was tendered him at the residence of the late 
Colonel Thomas A. Mead, after which he proceeded to Put's 
Hill. Here General Lafayette again left his carriage and 
walked down the hill accompanied by the committee. The 
road at this point is cut through a solid rock, rising about 
twenty feet perpendicularly on each side. Hundreds of 
ladies thronged the hill on one side and gentlemen on the 
other. As the General passed down the hill a salute was fired. 
From one side of the rock to the other, over the road, a rural 
arch was suspended, made of hemlock branches and wild 
brier, and decorated with roses, the whole designed by the 
ladies of this town ; pendent from the centre of the arch was 
a shield bearing the following inscription: — 



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This arch on the hill rendered memorable by the brave 
General Putnam, is erected in honor of the illustrious 
General Lafayette, the early and distinguished champion 
of American liberty, and tried friend of Washington. 

The centre of the arch was surrounded by an old Revolu- 
tionary flag, battered and torn. It was the flag that was 
carried at the Battle of White Plains. The Rev. Mr. Lewis 
read the inscription to the General, told him the history of 
the flag, and pointed out to him the exact spot of the heroic 
exploit of the brave General Putnam. On parting, the 
patriotic parson, who was a Revolutionary soldier also, said, 
"General, America loves you." "And I, sir," said the 
General, "most truly love America." 

On the fifth day of May, 1829, a special town meeting was 
held to take into consideration measures to prevent the 
slaughter of sheep by dogs. During the year, thirty- two of 
the inhabitants reported that one hundred and ninety-seven 
sheep and one hundred and sixteen lambs had been killed by 
dogs. The loss was estimated at eight hundred and seventy- 
six dollars. 

The question of building another town house was dis- 
cussed in 1832, and at a special town meeting held on the 
twenty-second day of September, it was "voted to build a 
town house on condition that we can agree upon a proper 
place for locating it and upon proper terms." At the 
annual town meeting held on the fifth day of October, 1835, 
it was "voted that the Town of Greenwich build a town 
house to hold their public meetings in; that it be for that 
express purpose and no other, and that it be built on or near 
the ground where Seymour's blacksmith shop formerly 
stood in Horseneck; that Silas Davis, Thomas A. Mead, and 
WilHam Timpany be a committee to oversee the building of 
said house and also to contract for the same ; that said com- 
mittee consult with the selectmen of said town as to the size 
and manner of said building, and that the same be completed 
by the first day of November following. " The annual town 



198 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

meeting held on the third day of October, 1836, was held at 
the site of the new town house, which was then not com- 
pleted. It stood on the site of the present soldiers' monu- 
ment near the Second Congregational Church, and was the 
second town building. 

A special town meeting was held on the eighth day of 
May, 1 84 1, "for the purpose of appointing persons to attend 
before a committee of the General Assembly now in session 
at Hartford for the purpose of having the court house and 
jail removed from Fairfield to Norwalk, " which resulted in 
the choice of the following committee: — 

Peter Ferris, Bartow F. White, 

Obadiah Mead, Isaac Peck, 

Thomas A. Mead, Augustus Mead. 

"Resolved by said meeting that rather than to have the 
court house and jail located at Bridgeport, as petitioned for 
by the inhabitants of Bridgeport, we should favor having 
the county divided." 

The War with Mexico, i 846-1 848. 

The principal causes which led to the Mexican War 
were the annexation of Texas and the aggressive action of the 
United States Government against Mexico. The Battle of 
Palo Alto, May 8, 1846, marked the commencement of 
active hostilities, and on the thirteenth day of jMay, 1846, 
Congress passed an Act providing money and men. The 
Treaty of February 2, 1848, ended the war, and the Mexican 
Government ceded to the United States an immense terri- 
tory in the southwest and on the Pacific Coast. 

Connecticut furnished her quota of men, which was 
small, and among the number mustered into the United 
States service, was: Finney, Abijah, of Greenwich, Company 
H., 1st Dragoons. The printed rolls do not contain the 
name of any one else whose address is given as Greenwich ; 
although there were quite a number from Stamford. 

In the year 1853, the Town of Greenwich was set off as 



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a probate district by itself, and at a special election held on 
the thirtieth day of June, 1853, for the election of the first 
judge of probate, pursuant to an act of the General Assembly 
passed at the session held on the twenty-third day of 
June, 1853, Augustus Mead was elected said judge of 
probate. 

For a number of years prior to 1854, the town had 
authorized the selectmen to lease from time to time a 
suitable house to keep the town poor in and to be provided 
for and helped at one place. At the annual town meeting, 
however, held on the first Monday of October, 1854, ^ com- 
mittee consisting of Augustus Mead, Ard Knapp, Thomas 
A. Mead, Edwin Keeler, William A. Ferris, were appointed 
to see at what price a farm could be obtained for the use of 
the poor of the town and report to some future meeting. 

The committee reported at the next annual town meeting 
held on the first Monday of October, 1855, that it was 
"unanimously of the opinion that a farm for that purpose 
suitably located would be a great saving of expense to the 
town, also the poor would be better accommodated, if the 
town owned the farm and buildings. They could provide 
suitable buildings to accommodate all who would be proper 
subjects of alms." 

"Voted that Josiah Wilcox, Augustus Mead, Ezra 
Keeler, Zaccheus Mead, be a committee with the se- 
lectmen to purchase a farm, and the selectmen with said 
committee have power to purchase a farm for the use 
and benefit of the Town of Greenwich for the support 
and maintenance of the town poor; and voted further 
that whensoever the selectmen and said committee have 
purchased a farm for the Town of Greenwich, the fund 
agents are hereby directed to call in so much of the town 
deposit fund as may be necessary for the purchase of said 
farm, and the selectmen are directed to give a note to the 
treasurer of the town deposit fund for the money so called 
for." 

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200 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

and remained there until 1905, when the town at its annual 
meeting, held on the second day of October, authorized the 
selectmen to sell the premises and remove the occupants 
thereof to a new home situate on the Parsonage Road, near 
the Contagious Hospital and the entrance to Putnam Ceme- 
tery, where the poorhouse is now located. 



CHAPTER XII. 

THE CIVIL WAR, I861-1865 — EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF 
TOWN MEETINGS — SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR. 

The bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, the 
first overt act by the seceded states against the Federal 
Government, began on Friday, April 12, 1861. The fort 
was surrendered by Major Anderson on the following day, 
after an attack in which one man was wounded, but none 
killed. The news was published in the papers of Sunday, 
April 14, 1861, and on Monday morning, April 15, 1861, 
President Lincoln's first proclamation, calling for 75,000 
men to suppress the rebellion, was issued. This was followed. 
May 3, 1861, by an additional proclamation calling for forty 
more regiments and 18,000 seamen, and on July 2, 1862, by a 
call for 300,000 volunteers. 

The inhabitants of the town responded with alacrity to 
the call for volunteers and at the annual town meeting held 
on the first Monday of October, 1861, it was: 

Resolved, that a military committee of three be ap- 
pointed for the year next ensuing to make such appropri- 
ations as may be demanded for the raising of volunteers 
within the Town of Greenwich and supplying the wants of 
such volunteers as may from time to time be necessary, 
provided the sum expended by said committee shall not 
exceed the sum of $500. 

This sum was increased to 1 1000.00. The committee 
chosen was: Dr. James H. Hoyt, Julius B. Curtis, Edward 
B. Hewes, 



202 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

At a special town meeting held on the fifth day of August, 
1862, it was: 

Resolved that the bounty to each volunteer shall be 
$100, provided such volunteers are enrolled on or before the 
sixteenth day of August, 1862. 

Resolved that the selectmen be and they are hereby 
directed to draw an order on the treasurer of the town in 
favor of said volunteers for the sum of $100 on application 
of the Committee legally appointed to recruit volunteers, 
who shall make oath that said volunteer has been examined 
and sworn into the service of the state, or the United States, 
in answer to the call of the President. 

Resolved that the selectmen be and they are hereby 
authorized to draw such sum of money as may be demanded 
to pay the expenses incurred in raising volunteers and that a 
tax to pay said bounty be levied on the ratable and taxable 
property of said town. 

Voted "that the Committee appointed at the last annual 
town meeting, viz.: Dr. James H. Hoyt, Edward B. Hewes, 
Julius B. Curtis, together with the selectmen, be a Commit- 
tee to superintend and draw orders on the treasurer of the 
town for the payment of said volunteers." 

At special town meetings held on the twenty-sixth day of 
August, 1862, it was: 

Resolved that the Town of Greenwich pay the sum of 
$100 to each volunteer raised under the call of the President 
for men for the military service of the United States for the 
period of nine months to fill the quota of the town, and that 
the selectmen be and they are hereby directed to draw an 
order on the treasurer of the town in favor of each volunteer 
for said sum of $100, provided said volunteers shall have 
first passed the requisite examination and have been mus- 
tered into service, and further provided that said sums paid 
shall not exceed the sum of $8300.00, and the selectmen are 
further authorized to loan a sufficient sum of money to meet 
said payment. 



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Resolved, that the sum of $100 be paid by the Town of 
Greenwich to each person who shall by the eleventh day of 
September, 1862, volunteer to fill up Company I., loth 
Regiment, Connecticut State Volunteers, not to exceed the 
number of twenty-one men, 

and that the selectmen be authorized to loan the money to 
pay the volunteers as mentioned in said resolution. 

At a special town meeting held on the twenty-second 
day of July, 1863, it was: 

Resolved that the selectmen of the Town of Greenwich 
be and they are hereby authorized to borrow a sum of 
money sufficient to pay a bounty of $300 to any citizen 
of the Town of Greenwich that may be drafted under 
and in accordance with the provisions of the National 
Conscription Law passed by the last Congress, provided 
that such citizen be declared by the Military Board of 
the 4th Congressional District of the State of Connecticut 
to be capable of bearing arms under the act known as the 
Conscription Bill. 

At a special town meeting held on the seventh day of 
August, 1863, it was: 

Resolved, that the selectmen of the Town of Greenwich 
be and they are hereby authorized to advertise for and pro- 
cure such sums of money on the credit of the Town of Green- 
wich demanded to meet the appropriations made at the 
special town meeting holden July 22, 1863, for the purpose 
of paying each man drafted the sum voted by said meeting, 
provided the said bounty shall not exceed the sum of $30,000. 
Said money shall be placed in the treasury of the Town of 
Greenwich, subject to the order of the selectmen of said 
town. 

At a special town meeting held on the second day of 
November, 1863, it ratified the action taken at the special 
meetings held on the twenty-second day of July, 1863, and 
the seventh day of August, 1863, and in addition thereto the 
following resolutions were offered and adopted: 



204 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Resolved that the sum of $13,000.00 be and hereby is 
appropriated by the Town of Greenwich for the purpose of 
reHeving such of the citizens of the Town of Greenwich as 
have been drafted into the service of the United States under 
the Conscription Act on the seventeenth day of October, 
1863; provided that such citizen shall be unable to raise 
the amount necessary to procure a substitute, or pay the 
amount by the said Conscription Bill required to procure an 
extension; provided that the said relief be given to such 
citizens as are unable ; provided that a committee of four be 
appointed to examine into and decide upon procuring of 
such proof of the citizen who may apply for relief, the said 
committee to constitute with the selectmen a board of 
relief. The said board shall examine under oath all appli- 
cants applying for relief, also all persons representing to pro- 
cure substitutes for any applicants. The said board shall 
have discretionary powers, as to any aid or relief given. 
Said board to act in open session at stated intervals. 

Resolved that the said board shall have power and 
authority to draw orders on the selectmen of the Town of 
Greenwich and that they shall draw an order on the treasurer 
of the Town of Greenwich in favor of any applicant entitled 
to relief and are examined for the same by the board from the 
said town. 

' ' Resolved that the treasurer be and is hereby authorized 
to pay any such orders as may be given by said board for any 
money that is now in the hands of the treasurer of the Town 
of Greenwich, provided that such orders shall not exceed 
the amount hereinbefore appropriated for the proposed 
relief. 

Voted that Ard Knapp, Joseph E, Russell, John 
Voorhis and James H. Hoyt with the selectmen be the com- 
mittee agreeable to the foregoing resolutions. 

Voted that the selectmen be directed to offer a reward 
of $500.00 for the arrest and conviction of the person or 
persons, who committed the late incendiaries in the town. 

At a special town meeting held on the seventeenth day 
of December, 1863, it was: 

Resolved that a committee to consist of the selectmen 
and four judicious electors of the Town of Greenwich be 
appointed for the purpose of procuring volunteers to fill the 



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last call of the President of the United States for 300,000 
men, and that the sum of $300.00 is hereby appropriated for 
the expenses of said committee in procuring volunteers to fill 
the quota of the town, and that said committee are hereby 
authorized to draw orders on the selectmen for an amount 
not exceeding the said sum of $300.00, and the selectmen are 
hereby authorized to draw orders on the treasurer of said 
town for all sums so ordered by said committee, and the 
treasurer of said Town of Greenwich is hereby authorized 
to pay said orders out of any funds of said town in his 
hands. The sum appropriated shall not exceed the sum of 
$6,000.00." 

A special town meeting was held on the eighteenth day 
of January, 1864, in accordance with the resolution passed 
at the last special session of the Legislature. 

The undersigned committee appointed at a special 
town meeting holden on the second day of November, 1863, 
to aid drafted men, most respectfully report: 

That in accordance with the resolution adopted at 
said meeting the committee met from time to time to con- 
sider the several applications for aid. There were forty-six 
applicants for aid, of which twelve were rejected, and 
thirty-nine aided. 

The sums awarded, varied from $100.00 to $275,00, to 
the different persons. The award being based on the sworn 
evidence before the committee. Of the awards, two of the 
highest were not paid, as the persons to whom they were 
made were afterwards exempted on the ground of non- 
liability through the agency of Dr. James H. Hoyt. 

The total amount of awards • • $7164.00 

Deduct amount of two awards 550. 00 

Amount of awards paid $6614.00 

The committee most respectfully say, that they endeav- 
ored to be governed by the spirit of the resolution adopted 
by the meeting. They considered it to be the spirit of the 
resolution that no one should be compelled to go into the 
army unless they chose to, and it was not deemed by the com- 
mittee to be the design of the meeting, at which the resolu- 
tion was adopted, to distress any one to raise the money. 



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At the same time it was deemed but justice that persons who 
were drafted should make some effort to share the expense in 
consideration of their discharge from draft for the term of 
three years. The committee most respectfully report that 
while in some cases they may have erred in the amount of the 
awards, they feel that they have endeavored to do justice to 
all. The action of the committee at the first setting was 
necessarily urgent, as many of the men had to report them- 
selves the same, or the next day at Bridgeport, yet they 
flatter themselves that their action will meet the approval of 
the freemen of the Town of Greenwich. 

All of which is most respectfully submitted. 

JOTHAM MeRRITT, ^ 

Samuel Mills, \ Committee of the Town 

James H. Hoyt, i of Greenwich. 

Joseph E. Russell, j 

Resolved that the freemen of the Town of Greenwich 
hereby approve of the appropriations made at the special 
town meeting holden on the second day of November, 1863, 
to aid drafted men, and they hereby adopt all actions of the 
selectmen of the Town of Greenwich in loaning money and 
drawing orders on the town treasurer for the payment of the 
same to aid drafted men. The doings of said meeting are 
hereby confirmed. 

At a special town meeting held on the tenth day of Feb- 
ruary, 1864, the committee appointed for the purpose of 
filling the quota of the call of the President made the follow- 
ing report : 

We have been enabled to fill our quota of sixty men at 
an expense to the town of $5392.00, or an average expense of 
$87.00 per man, including the expense of the committee. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
Brush Knapp, ) ^ .,, 
John Dayton. [ Committee. 

The report was duly accepted. 

Resolved that the lowest bidder receive the contract 
for supplying recruits to fill the last call of the President for 
500,000 men. This meeting reserves the right to receive, or 
reject, all bids, provided that the Town of Greenwich be 



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obligated to receive and pay for no more recruits that are 
wanted to fill the quota of said town. The party receiving 
the contract to give good and sufficient bond for the fulfil- 
ment of the same. 

Resolved that the meeting accept the bid of William 
B. Wescome to furnish the quota of the Town of Greenwich 
in answer to the last call of the President of the United 
States for 500,000 men, said bid being the sum of $50.00 per 
man to fill the balance of the quota of said town. Said 
William B. Wescome to execute a bond with surety to the 
satisfaction of the selectmen in the sum of $50.00 for each 
man to be furnished to fill said balance. 

Resolved that the selectmen be and are hereby author- 
ized to draw an order for the sum not to exceed $60.00 for 
each man recruited in favor of any party, who shall have 
recruited men, on the presentation of a certificate from the 
clerk of the Provost Marshall, provided that such recruit has 
been sworn into the service of the United States Army 
previous to the tenth day of February, 1864, such men 
having been recruited on the last call of the Commander-in- 
Chief for 500,000 men. 

Resolved that the selectmen of the Town of Green- 
wich be and are hereby authorized to loan a sum of money, 
not to exceed the sum of $5000.00. Said sum to be pro- 
cured on the credit of said town for paying the expenses 
incurred in procuring volunteers. 

At a special town meeting held on the twenty-seventh 
day of July, 1864, it was: 

Resolved that a sum not exceeding $45,000.00 be and 
is hereby appropriated by this meeting for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses incurred in raising volunteers to fill 
the quota of the Town of Greenwich under the last call of the 
President for 500,000 men, and that a committee of five be 
appointed by this meeting, who are hereby directed to raise 
volunteers and make all necessary payments, and to expend 
such sums of money as shall be demanded for the raising of 
men, provided that the expenditures do not exceed the sum 
of $45,000.00. 

Resolved that said committee have power to direct 
the selectmen of the Town of Greenwich to draw orders 
on the treasurer of said town for such sums as shall be 



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required to provide for and raise the number of men before 
mentioned. 

Resolved that the selectmen of the Town of Green- 
wich be authorized to hire a sum of money not to exceed the 
sum of $45,000.00. Said loan to be made on the credit of 
the town. Said selectmen shall also draw orders on the 
treasurer of the town for such sums as shall be required by 
the committee before appointed, and in favor of such parties 
as may be designated by said committee. 

Resolved further that in the event the said committee 
shall be unable to raise the number called for under the 
quota by volunteering, that they are hereby authorized to 
appropriate such sums as shall be necessary for the relief of 
all men drafted. 

The following persons were appointed to carry the above 
resolutions into effect: Philander Button, James H. Hoyt, 
Edward B. Hewes, John Voorhis, Robert M. Bruce. 

At a special town meeting held on the twentieth day of 
August, 1864, the military committee appointed to raise 
volunteers to fill the quota of the town under the last call 
of the President for 500,000 men, beg leave to report as 
follows : 

Your committee took immediately in hand the duty 
assigned them by the resolution under which they were 
appointed and made arrangements to secure both substitute 
and volunteer enlisting with the help of citizens liable to 
draft to put into the service as many substitutes as possible 
and thus reduce the enrollment list of the town. But your 
committee found by visiting New York and Bridgeport, 
that a man could not be obtained without the cash on hand. 
The selectmen have not furnished us with any money and 
therefore we have not been able to get any men. The only 
course left for us to adopt in accomplishing the duty assigned 
us seemed to be therefore to make an offer on the credit of 
the town to citizens liable to be drafted sufficient to induce 
them to advance the money and furnish substitutes for 
themselves, or to try and raise volunteers by a similar offer. 
We therefore adopted the following resolutions and have 
made them known as extensively as possible. 

Resolved that we will direct the selectmen of the Town 



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of Greenwich to draw an order on the treasurer of said town 
for the sum of $450.00 in favor of any citizen of the town who 
is liable to be drafted under the last call of the President for 
500,000 men, who shall present to said committee the proper 
evidence that he has volunteered for the town for three 
years in the army, or navy, of the United States, or has 
furnished a substitute therefor, so that his name is legally 
taken from the United States enrollment list of the Town of 
Greenwich. 

Resolved that such citizens as are named in the fore- 
going resolution volunteering, or furnishing substitutes, 
shall be entitled to an order on the treasurer for such pro- 
portional part of $450.00 as their term of service shall bear 
to three years. 

Resolved that we will direct the selectmen of the Town 
of Greenwich to draw an order on the treasurer of said town 
for the sum of $350.00 in favor of any person who may 
volunteer and be credited on the quota of the Town of 
Greenwich for the term of three years. 

Several citizens have intimated to the committee their 
intention to avail themselves of those offers and furnish 
substitutes, but no one has as yet given us the legal evidence 
that he has done so. Nearly two weeks, therefore, have 
already passed since your committee was appointed, but for 
want of money not a man has been raised. It would seem 
to be impossible now to fill the quota of the town without a 
draft, unless an amount of money sufficient for the purpose 
shall be immediately raised, and expended, or the credit of 
the town pledged to such as may be induced to volunteer 
from among our own citizens in sufficient amount to raise the 
required number of men. 
Greenwich, Aug. 20, 1864, 

Philander Button, ] 

James H. Hoyt, I Acting members of the 

Robert M. Bruce, ' n^^.^.ut^^ 

John Voorhis. 



Committee. 



Resolved, that the Town of Greenwich do hereby au- 
thorize the military committee to pay the sum of $300.00 
to each volunteer for the army, or navy, of the United States 
for the term of one year, also persons residing in the Town of 
Greenwich who are liable to draft, who shall volunteer for 
three years, or furnish substitutes for such persons, or who 



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are drafted for said three years, shall receive $450.00 in cash, 
or orders on the treasurer of the Town of Greenwich. This 
resolution shall take precedence over all and other resolu- 
tions notwithstanding. 

At the annual town meeting held on the first Monday of 
October, 1864, the military committee further reported as 
follows : 

That they have discharged, as they believe, by the most 
economical expenditure of money, consistent with the de- 
mand on them, the duty assigned to them. 

By the resolution passed at the time of the appointment 
of your committee the sum of $45,000.00 was at their dis- 
posal. It gives them pleasure, however, to report that the 
total expenditure has been but , less than half the ap- 
propriation. 

Yoin- committee, after their appointment, had some 
obstacles to encounter. In fact the discouragements were 
great. The first difficulty that met them in the discharge of 
their duties, after maturing their plans of operation, was a 
want of means. The selectmen of your town were unable to 
obtain money at first, and it was not until many days had 
passed and much personal effort on their part, as well as on 
the part of your committee, that a sufficiency of money 
could be procured to enable the proposed relief to be given. 
Your committee in accordance with the vote of the second 
town meeting gave the sum of $450.00 to each principal upon 
his presenting a certificate from the Provost Marshall of his 
having furnished a substitute. 

The number of parties who have taken benefit of said 
boimty have been : — 

One at $300.00 

Twenty-one at 450.00 

Total . $9750.00 

The liberal bounty offered volunteers and the advan- 
tages prospective to one year's service in the navy, induced 
the belief that many of our townsmen and citizens would 
most readily enter that branch of the public service. Such, 
however, was not the case, as but one did so. 

Also the bounty for one year's service being propor- 
tionally so much greater than for three years, it was believed 



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that many more volunteers for such time could be procured, 
thereby saving for your town from its appropriation. 

It was found, however, that volunteers regarded the 
amount of money in hand without any thought of time. So 
your committee had no choice, but to furnish volunteers for 
three years, and at such cost as the rates of brokerage in 
substitutes imposed upon them. 

Five volunteers have been furnished for one 

year at a cost of $1525.00 

Fifteen volunteers have been furnished for three 

years at an aggregate cost of 7150.00 

Whole number of substitutes and volunteers furnished, 
forty-three. 

The amount expended for commissions to town 

agents, and others for procuring volunteers $345.80 

The expenses of your committee for travel and 

other contingent expenses have been 47-50. 

Your committee have had stated sessions for about 
eighteen evenings and afternoons. They have spared no 
effort in procuring such information as would enable them to 
perform their trust for the greatest individual and public 
good. In expenditures of money, they are satisfied that the 
entire cost of your town has been less than most of the towns 
in your county. It gives your committee great pleasure to 
be able to report to their fellow citizens that their town 
quota is filled without a draft, thus preserving for each 
citizen his right of choice and individual preferment. 

To all who have given assistance to your committee, 
they are also indebted, especially to the generous co-opera- 
tion of the selectmen and treasurer of your town for their 
prompt and courteous favors. 

Whatever your committee accomplished, whether they 
receive from you censure, or commendation, rests equally 
on all alike, as no measure, or action, has been acted on 
without unanimous voice and vote. 

In rendering this report of their transactions, your com- 
mittee, while they congratulate their fellow citizens on their 
favored relief, feel themselves free from a responsible charge 
and would that a more prosperous and happy condition of a 
common country put at rest the possibility of another 
demand on you for more men, thereby again calling on your 
liberality. For the future, however, there is no certainty. 

Your committee have to acknowledge the great obHga- 
tion they are under to the recruiting agents, John Dayton 



212 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

and William B. Wescome. These gentlemen have fur- 
nished most of the substitutes for your townsmen, also a 
great share of the volunteers. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 
Greenwich, October 6, 1864. 

Philander Button, Chairman, '] 

Robert M. Bruce, ^ ^-^-^^ Committee. 

John Voorhis, [ -^ 

James H. Hoyt, Secretary. J 

At the annual meeting held on the first Monday of 
October, 1865, the military committee further reported as 
follows : 

They have furnished for the service of the United 
States, army and navy, seventy-six men, twelve of whom 
were substitutes for which the principals were paid the sum 
of $150.00 each, making the whole amount paid for sub- 
stitutes $1800.00. Sixty-four volunteers have been fur- 
nished at an aggregate cost of $11,268.60, which is inclusive 
of all expenses of your committee acting under a resolution 
passed at above mentioned time of your committee's appoint- 
ment giving them power to hear and award to those having 
unpaid claims (for services rendered) by reason of having 
furnished volunteers, there having been orders given to 
several parties presenting such claims for $500.00, making 
the sum total expended and ordered paid on unfinished 
business $15,568.60. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 
Greenwich, October, 1865. 

Philander Button, Chairmafi, 

James H. Hoyt, Secretary. 

At a special town meeting held on the nineteenth day of 
April, 1890, it was: 

Resolved that Joseph E. Russell, Robert M. Bruce and 
John Voorhis be and hereby are appointed a committee 
to investigate the claims for bounty presented by persons 
who re -enlisted from this town under the resolution or vote 
passed by the town August 20, 1864, and the claims of 
drafted men who furnished substitutes in the Civil War, and 
report thereon to a town meeting to be called hereafter. 



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The above committee made its report at the annual 
town meeting held on the fifth day of October, 1891, which 
was laid on the table, and it was: 

Resolved that William J. Mead, George E. Scofield and 
William J. Smith be and hereby are appointed a committee 
to investigate as to all claims of re-enlisted soldiers (including 
the claim of John A. Nichols) for bounties voted by the town 
and to make a report thereon to a special town meeting to be 
called to take action thereon, or to the next annual town 
meeting. 

The committee reported to a special town meeting held 
on the tenth day of December, 1892, that sixteen re-enlisted 
soldiers had never been paid their bounty money, and it 
was: 

Resolved that the selectmen of Greenwich, or a major- 
ity of them be and they hereby are authorized and directed 
to pay each of the soldiers embraced in the report of said 
committee, or his legal representatives, or attorney, the sum 
of $300.00 with interest from the first day of January, 1864, 
to the date of payment, and an appropriation of so much 
money as is necessary for the carrying out of this resolution 
is hereby made. 

The following list of officers and men, together with the 
historical account of the various regiments, is taken from 
the Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations, pub- 
lished in 1869, and the Record of Service of Connecticut Men in 
the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the 
Rebellion, compiled by authority of the General Assembly. 

1ST Connecticut Cavalry. 

The 1st Connecticut Cavalry was originally a battalion 
of four companies, one company from each Congressional 
District, and was recruited in the fall of 186 1. It left West 
Meriden, Conn., for Wheeling, Va., on February 20, 1862, 
numbering 346 officers and men, and remained there in the 
camp of instructions until March 2^, 1862, when it proceeded 



214 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

to Moorefield, W. Va., and immediately entered upon the 
arduous duties peculiar to its branch of the service. 

After nearly a year of constant activity, the battalion 
was assigned to duty as Provost Guard in the City of Balti- 
more, Md., and while on duty there was increased to a full 
regiment of twelve companies. 

The regiment was mustered out of the service at Wash- 
ington, D. C, August 2, 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 

McDowell, Va., May 8, 1862. 
Franklin, Va., May 11 and 12, 1862. 
Strasburg, Va., June i, 1862. 
Harrisonburg, Va., June 6, 1862. 
Cross Keys, Va., June 8, 1862. 
Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862. 
Bolivar Heights, Va., July 14, 1862. 
Waterford, Va., August 7, 1863. 
Craig's Church, Va., May 5, 1864. 
Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 8, 1864. 
Meadow Bridge, Va., May 12, 1864. 
Hanover Court House, Va., May 31, 1864. 
Ashland, Va., June i, 1864. 
Near Old Church Tavern, Va., June 10, 1864. 
In the Field, Va., June 15 to June 28, 1864. 
Reams Station, Va., June 29, 1864. 
Winchester, Va., August 16, 1864. 
Near Kemeysville, Va., August 25, 1864. 
Front Royal, Va., September 21, 1864. 
Cedar Run Church, Va., October 17, 1864. 
Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864. 
Near Woodstock, Va., December 19, 1864. 
Waynesboro, Va., March 2, 1865. 
Ashland, Va., March 14, 1865. 
Five Forks, Va., April i, 1865. 
Sweat House Creek, Va., April 3, 1865. 
Harper's Farm, Va., April 6, 1865. 

Privates. 

Company B. 
Mclntyre, James. 



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Company C. 

Baxter, George, Bennett, John, Corporal, 

deserted. deserted. 

Company D. 
Bishop, James E. 

Company E. 
Bishop, WilHam H. 

Company F. 

Cunningham, James, Sullivan, James, 

Lynch, Patrick, deserted, 

deserted. 

Company G. 

Hackett, Joseph, Schroeder, WilHam. 

deserted. 

Company I. 

Morgan, John. 

Company M. 

Adams, John|Q., Cunningham, John, 

Carroll, Michael. Wyman, George, 

deserted. 

Unassigned Recruit. 
Hughes, Henry. 

2ND Connecticut Light Battery. 

The 2nd Connecticut Light Battery was organized in 
August, 1862, and was composed of two batteries of the 
militia of Bridgeport. It was ordered to Washington, 
D. C, October 15, 1862, and assigned to the Army of the 
Potomac. 

It was mustered out of service on August 9, 1865, at New 
Haven, Conn. 



21 6 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Principal Engagements. 

Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863. 
Fort Gaines, Ala., August 6, 1864. 
Fort Morgan, Ala., August 19, 1864. 
Near Blakely, Ala., April 5 to 9, 1865. 

Privates. 

Brown, James. 

Cain, John, Ryan, Dennis. 

1ST Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery. 

The first Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery was 
organized as the 4th Regiment Infantry in the spring of 186 1, 
and left for the seat of war June 10, 186 1. It served as an 
infantry regiment until January 2, 1862, when by special 
orders from the War Department, the regiment was changed 
to heavy artillery, to consist of twelve companies of one 
hundred and fifty men each. 

The regiment was temporarily stationed in the fortifica- 
tions around Washington, D. C, but upon the commence- 
ment of the Peninsular Campaign, it accompanied the army 
with a siege train of seventy-one pieces of artillery. 

It was mustered out of service on September 25, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Principal Engagements. 

Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 30 to May 4, 1862. 

Hanover Court House, Va., May 27, 1862. 

Gaines's Mills, Va., May 31 to June 20, 1862. 

Chickahominy, Va., June 25, 1862. 

Golden Hill, Va., June 27, 1862. 

Malvern Hill, Va., July i, 1862. 

Siege of Fredericksburg, Va., December 11 to December 

15, 1862. (Batteries B. & M.) 
Before Fredericksburg, Va., April 28 to May 6, 1863. 

(Battery M.) 
Before Fredericksburg, Va., June 5 to June 13, 1863. 

(Battery M.) 



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Kelley's Ford, Va., November 7, 1863. (Battery M.) 
Orange Court House, Va., November 30, 1864. (Battery 

B.) 
Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, Va., May, 1864 to 

April, 1865. 

Privates. 

Company M. 

Comstock, Silas, deserted. 

Company B. 
McKenzie, Gilbert A., deserted. 

Company K. 

Schroder, Jacob. 
Wey, Robert. 

Company A. 
Tipohl, John, deserted. 

2ND Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery. 

The 2nd Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery was 
recruited in Litchfield County as the 19th Regiment of 
Infantry. It left for Washington, D. C, September 15, 
1862, and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and 
was stationed at Alexandria, Va. 

On November 23, 1863, it was changed from an infantry 
to an artillery regiment by orders from the War Department. 
During the year 1863, it was engaged in garrison duty in the 
"Defence of Washington, South of the Potomac," in Forts 
North, EUsworth, Lyon, Weld, Famsworth, Williams, and 
Willard, and was in the same brigade as the ist Regiment 
Connecticut Heavy Artillery, forming the 2nd Brigade of 
DeRussey's Division, Defence of Washington. 

From December i, 1863, to February 20, 1864, the regi- 
ment was being rapidly recruited, and was increased from an 



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aggregate of 757 men to the maximum of an artillery- 
regiment. On May 21, 1864, it was assigned to the 2nd 
Brigade, i st Division, 6th Army Corps, and was continually 
on the march from that time to June i, 1864, when it 
was called upon to participate in the Battle of Cold 
Harbor, Va., in which it suffered a heavy loss. It remained 
with the 6th Army Corps until the close of the war, and 
was mustered out of service on August 18, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Principal Engagements. 

Cold|Harbor, Va,, June i, 1864. 
Hatcher's Run, Va., February 6, 1865. 
Near Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865. 
Near Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865. 
Sailors' Creek, Va., April 6, 1865. 

Privates. 

Company A. 
Brown, George, Reddy, Samuel. 

Company B. 

Finn, William, McMahon, John. 

Company C. 
Henry, Charles E. 

Company D. 
Maskell, Henry, Sergeant. 

Company E. 

Clark, Lewis, Keating, Martin. 

Company F. 
Van Dusen, Robert J., deserted. 



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Company G. 

Wilson, Benjamin, deserted. 

Company I. 

Sidney, James. 

Company L. 

Bartholomew, Adam, deserted. Hughes, James. 

Booth, Byron, deserted. Kelly, Patrick, deserted. 

Farrell, Thomas. Provost, WilHam, deserted. 

Ford, William. Wilson, Andrew, deserted. 
Green, George. 

Company M. 

Hart, Charles C. Joseph, Aaron. 

Henry, Charies E., transferred. Terrell, John G., Corporal, 

Jones, John, ist, deserted. deserted. 

5TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

The 5th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was 
organized in June, 1861, and was originally recruited for 
what was termed "Colt's Rifle Regiment," but owing to 
some misunderstanding, it was deemed advisable to disband 
it, and the men were organized into the 5th Regiment of 
Infantry. 

The regiment left for the seat of war July 29, 1861, under 
orders to report to Major-General Banks then at Harper's 
Ferry, and in command of the "Department of the Shenan- 
doah." 

It was mustered out of service July 19, 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 
Winchester, Va., May 25, 1862. 
Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862. 
Chancellorsville, Va., May i, 2, and 3, 1863. 
Gettysburg, Pa., July i, 2, and 3, 1863. 



220 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1864. 

Dallas, Ga., May 25, 1864. 

Marietta, Ga., June 18, 1864. 

Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864. 

Siege of Atlanta, Ga., August to September, 1864. 

Chesterfield Court House, S. C, February 4, 1865. 

Silver Run, N. C, March 2, 1865. 

Privates. 
Company B. 
Millard, Frank, Purdy, Charles, deserted. 

Millard, Samuel, deserted, 

Company C. 
MuUin, Daniel, Walton, Richard, 

Smith, Emanuel, deserted. 

Company F. 
Tenison, David, deserted. 

Company K. 
Scofield, Alfred. 

6th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Written hy Charles K. Cadwell, Sergeant, Company F. 

(Abridged) 

This regiment was organized at New Haven in August, 
1 86 1, and was the third regiment furnished by the State of 
Connecticut under the first call of the President for volun- 
teers for three years, and was mustered into the United 
States service September 12, 1861. 

On September 17, 1861, it left New Haven for Wash- 
ington, D. C, and on its arrival there on September 19, 
1 86 1, it encamped on Meridian Hill, and was brigaded with 



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the 7th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers and the 3rd and 
4th Regiments New Hampshire Volunteers. 

The twenty days of camp life here was a period of un- 
ceasing drill and discipline, only broken by a visit to the 
camp of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 
upon a tour of inspection. 

On October 8, 1861, the regiment left Washington for 
Annapolis, Md., where it joined the forces then being 
organized under General William T. Sherman of the army, 
and Admiral Dupont of the navy, for an expedition to the 
Southern Coast. It sailed from Annapolis on October 19, 
1 86 1, encountered a terrific storm off Cape Hatteras, which 
disabled and wrecked a number of vessels, and arrived off 
Port Royal, S. C, November 5, 1861. On November 7, 
1 86 1, the bombardment of Forts Walker and Beauregard in 
the harbor, and the battle between the Union and Con- 
federate naval forces being the first naval engagement of the 
war, took place in full view of the regiment which was in 
the advance to land as soon as the forts were reduced. The 
engagement lasted five hours, and at its close the regiment 
with the 7th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers landed in 
small boats, and taking possession of the forts, immediately 
pushed forward after the flying enemy, and drove them 
from the island, capturing a number of prisoners. 

For some months the time was occupied in building 
fortifications and making raids upon the surrounding 
country, in which a large quantity of supplies were captured. 

In January, 1862, the regiment took part in an expedi- 
tion to capture Savannah, Ga., by the way of Warsaw 
Sound, Ga. The attempt was a failure, and in consequence 
of the regiment being kept on a small overcrowded vessel 
sixteen days without cooked food, with no vegetables, with 
hardtack full of worms, and water that was stored in kero- 
sene oil barrels, and without sufficient room on the vessel 
for all of the men to lie down at once, spotted fever broke 
out in the regiment and many lives were unnecessarily 
lost. 



222 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

In March, 1862, the regiment was a part of the force 
engaged in the siege and capture of Fort Pulaski on Savannah 
River, Ga. Its more particular operations in the siege were 
the construction and maintenance of a battery upon Jones 
Island, which was between the fort and the city of Savannah 
for the double purpose of preventing reinforcements reaching 
the fort, and the rebel iron-clad Atlanta from passing 
down the river. As the island was covered with water at 
high tide, the duty was laborious as well as dangerous, and 
many of the men suffered from disease and hardship. On 
April II, 1862, Fort Pulaski surrendered and the regiment 
returned to pleasant quarters on Dawfuski Island. 

In June, 1862, the regiment took part in the expedition 
against Charleston, S. C, under General Hunter, marching 
over Jones Island and suffering many hardships, being three 
days without food, as the wagon train was cut off, but 
finally arrived at James Island, where, on June 10, 1862, it 
was engaged in a skirmish and on June 16 took part in the 
Battle of Secession ville, S. C. After that it went into camp 
at Beaufort, S. C., and performed picket and guard duty 
until October 22, 1862, when it was engaged in the Battle 
of Pocotaligo, S. C., in which the regiment suffered its 
first heavy loss in battle, and after the battle returned to 
Beaufort. On March 18, 1863, it was transferred to Jack- 
sonville, Fla. 

About April i, 1863, the regiment left Jacksonville, and 
after a short tour of duty at Hilton Head, Beaufort, and 
some scouting upon the islands along the coast, was landed 
about May i, 1863, on Folly Island, S. C., to engage in the 
second attack on Charleston and Fort Sumter, by way of 
Morris Island. At midnight on July 9, 1863, the regiment 
with other forces under General Strong, ascended Folly 
River in boats, and at daybreak, after a desperate resistance 
and under a galling fire, effected a landing on Morris Island 
in the face of the enemy's guns, and charged and carried 
the fortifications, capturing one hundred and twenty-five 
prisoners and two battle flags. 



6th Regiment 223 

On July 18, 1863, the regiment led the charge upon the 
sea face of Fort Wagner. The loss in this action was so 
great that the regiment was sent to Hilton Head to recuperate. 

In April, 1864, the regiment was transferred to Virginia, 
and took part in the campaign of that year. 

Owing to fears of mob violence during the presidential 
election of November, 1864, the regiment, with many others, 
was ordered to New York by boats, and the vessels trans- 
porting them were stationed at different points on the East 
and Hudson Rivers to guard the city. After the election 
was over the regiment was returned to its camp at the front. 

After this the time was spent in camp and picket duty 
until the latter part of December, 1864, when it was ordered 
to take part in the second attack upon Fort Fisher, N. C. 
After the capture of Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865, the 
regiment took part in the operations for the capture of Wil- 
mington, N. C, and the opening of a base of supplies for 
General William T. Sherman in North Carolina. 

It was mustered out of service at New Haven, Conn., 
August 21, 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 

Port Royal, S. C, November 7, 1861. 

Siege of Fort Pulaski, Ga., March 20 to April 11, 1862. 

James Island, S. C, July 10, 1862. 

Secessionville, S. C, July 16, 1862. 

Pocotaligo, S. C, October 22, 1862. 

Morris Island, S. C, July 10, 1863. 

Fort Wagner, S. C, July 18, 1863. 

Chester Station, Va., May 10, 1864. 

Proctor's Creek, Va., May 14, 1864. 

Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 16, 1864. 

Near Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 20, 1864, 

Near Bermuda Hundred, June 2, 1864. 

Petersburg, Va., June 7, 1864. 

Near Bermuda Hundred, Va., June 17, 1864. 

Deep Bottom, Va., August 14 and 15, 1864. 

Deep River, Va., August 16, 1864. 

Siege of Petersburg, Va., August and September, 1864. 



224 Ye Historic of Yc Town of Greenwich 

Chapin's Farm, Va., September 29, 1864. 
Near Richmond, Va., October i, 1864. 
New Market Road, Va., October 7, 1864. 
Darbytown Road, Va., October 13, 1864. 
Charles City Road, Va., October 2^, 1864. 
Fort Fisher, N. C, January 15, 1865. 
Near Fort Fisher, N. C, January 19, 1865. 
Wilmington, N. C., February 21 and 22, 1865. 

Company D. 

Sergeants. 
Bailey, William H., McGee, James. 

Corporals. 

Buckley, Edmund, Hyde, William H., 

Hyde, Albert A., Sniffen, Irving L. 

Privates. 

Bing, Charles, Palmer, Isaac, 

Buckley, Thomas, Palmer, Walter, 

Goodhardt, John H., Raymond, Joseph E., 

Hussemann, John F., Reynolds, Carlton, 

Jones, James, Sherwood, William H., 

June, Charles H., Snyder, Oscar E. 
Lockwood, Egbert, 

7TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

The 7th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was 
organized in the summer of 1861, and was composed largely 
of those who had served in the three months' regiments. 
It left for Washington, D. C, on September 18, 1861, and 
was assigned to the Department of the South. 

It was mustered out of service on July 20, 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 

Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 10 and 11, 1862. 
James Island, S. C, June 16, 1862. 
Pocotaligo, S. C, October 22, 1862. 
Morris Island, S. C, July 10, 1863. 



Soldiers in the Civil War 225 

Fort Wagner, S. C, July n, 1863. 
Olustee, Fla., February 24, 1864. 
Chester Station, Va., May 10, 1864. 
Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 10 to 17, 1864. 
Bermuda Hundred, Va., June 2, 1864. 
Bermuda Hundred, Va., June 17, 1864. 
Deep Bottom, Va., August 14 and 15, 1864. 
Deep River, Va., August 18, 1864. 
Chapin's Farm, September 29, 1864. 
Near Richmond, Va., October i, 1864. 
New Market Road, Va., October 7, 1864. 
Darbytown Road, Va., October 13, 1864. 
Charles City Road, Va., October 2'], 1864. 
Fort Fisher, N. C, January 15 and 19, 1865. 

Privates. 

Company A. 

Fisher, Edward, DeOrsay, Charles, 

dishonorably discharged. 

Company B. 

Frank, John, deserted. McNamara, Francis, 

deserted. 

Company E. 
Sweeney, John. 

Company G. 
Galvin, John, Hickey, John, Jones, Thomas. 

Company H. 
Davidson, Thomas. 

Company I. 
Messenger, Horace H., Ward, Thomas, Corporal. 

8th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

The 8th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was 
recruited at Camp Buckingham, Hartford, and left for 



226 Ye Historic of Ve Town of Greenwich 

Annapolis, October 17, 1861, and formed a part of General 
Bumside's Division. 

It was mustered out of service December 12, 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 

Newbern, N. C, March 14, 1862. 

Siege of Fort Macon, N. C, April, 1862. 

Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862. 

Fredericksburg, Va., December 11 and 13, 1862. 

Fort Huger, Va., April 11 and 19, 1863. 

Walthall Junction, Va., May 7, 1864. 

Fort Darling, Va., May 12 to 16, 1864. 

Petersburg, Va., June 15 to September 28, 1864. 

Fort Harrison, Va., September 29 to October 24, 1864. 

Privates. 

Company B. 
Donnelly, Timothy, deserted. 

Company D. 

Combs, Charles, deserted, Foster, William, deserted, 

Dalton, Richard, Munday, Thomas, 

Fanning, Edward, deserted, deserted. 

Company H. 

Wilkins, William H. 

9TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

The 9th Regiment Connecticut^ Volunteer Infantr was 
organized in September, 1 861, as an Irish Regiment, and was 
recruited at Camp English, New Haven. On November 4, 
1861, it left for Ship Island, Mississippi Sound. 

It was mustered out of service August 3, 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 

Baton Rouge, La., August 5, 1862. 
Chattahoola Station, La., June 24, 1863. 
Deep Bottom, Va., July 28, 1864. 
Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864. 



loth Regiment 227 

Privates. 

Company B. 

Boyle, William, transferred, Fitzpatrick, Martin, 

transferred. 

Company C, qth Battalion. 
Voorhees, James H., deserted. 

Company D, qth Battalion. 

Hamilton, James. 

lOTH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

History of the loth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infan- 
try. Written hy Brevet Brigadier-General John L. Otis, late 
Colonel of the regiment. 

The loth Regiment of Infantry was recruited late in the 
summer of 1861, mustered into the United States service 
September 30, at Camp Buckingham, Hartford, Connecticut, 
left there for Annapolis, Maryland, October 31, under com- 
mand of Colonel Charles L. Russell, of Derby, and was 
assigned to the First (General J. G. Foster's) Brigade of 
Bumside's Division. The regiment remained at Annapolis 
two months, during which time it became noted for superior 
drill and discipline. 

January 2, 1862, it took transports with the Bumside 
Expedition for North Carolina, remained on shipboard, 
miserably provided for, over five weeks; then landed Feb- 
ruary 7, and on the eighth fought like a regiment of veterans 
in the Battle of Roanoke Island, losing fifty-six killed and 
wounded — the heaviest loss sustained by any regiment 
engaged. Colonel Russell was killed, and was succeeded by 
Colonel Albert W. Drake, of Windsor. 

February 1 1 , the regiment re-embarked and remained on 
transports over a month longer, landing at Slocum's Creek, 
March 13, and after a hard day's march and a night bivouac 



228 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

in the mud again distinguished itself for steadiness and effi- 
ciency under fire on the morning of the fourteenth, in the 
Battle of Newbern, losing twenty-seven killed and wounded. 
Colonel Drake died June 5, and was succeeded by Colonel 
Ira W. Pettibone, of Winsted. 

The loth Regiment remained in North Carolina during 
the summer of 1862, taking part in all the movements of the 
army. It was sent to Roanoke Island to suppress a mutiny, 
a battalion was sent to Plymouth to take part in capturing 
some rebel works on the Roanoke River, and the whole regi- 
ment took part in the Trenton and Tarboro expeditions, 
meeting the enemy at Rawle's Mills, Hamilton, and ¥/il- 
liamstown. July 22, all troops in North Carolina were 
organized into the 9th Corps, under command of Major- 
General Burnside, November 15, Colonel Pettibone re- 
signed, and the command of the regiment devolved for a 
short time upon Lieutenant-Colonel Pardee, and then on 
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Leggett. December 14, 1862, 
during the Goldsboro Expedition, there was a very sharp 
engagement at Kinston, North Carolina. General French, 
of the rebel army, occupied the town with about 7000 men ; 
one of his brigades under Colonel Mallett occupied a strong 
position on the opposite side of the Neuse River, to defend 
the approach to the bridge. Several Union regiments had 
attempted to carry the enemy's position, but were all 
repulsed; the loth Regiment was then sent for from the rear, 
passing, on its way to the front, one entire brigade and three 
regiments of another. Arriving in position, it charged the 
enemy over three regiments lying down in line of battle, 
drove the enemy from its position, pursued them to the 
Neuse River, charged and carried the bridge, which was on 
fire, and, swept by four guns in a tete-du-pont, captured five 
hundred prisoners, a like number of small arms, and eleven 
pieces of artillery, with a loss of one hundred and six killed 
and wounded. From the time the loth Regiment com- 
menced its charge, not a soldier of any other infantry regi- 
ment took part in the engagement. On the sixteenth the 



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regiment took part in the engagement at Whitehall, and on 
the eighteenth, in that of Goldsboro. At this time Colonel 
T. G. Stevenson, 24th Massachusetts, commanded the bri- 
gade; General Foster, the expedition and the department. 
December 24, the troops then in North Carolina were, by 
order of the President, made to constitute the i8th Corps, 
with Major-General J. G. Foster in command. 

January 29, 1 863 , General Foster led a division of his troops 
(of which Stevenson's Brigade, including the loth Regiment, 
formed a part) to South Carolina, for the purpose of making 
an attack on Morris Island and Charleston. Foster's troops 
were landed on St. Helena Island, where, on February 13, 
Major John L. Otis of Manchester, was commissioned 
Colonel and assumed command of the regiment. Before 
leaving the island the regiment estabhshed its well-earned 
reputation of being the best drilled and best disciplined of 
any troops in the service. While here General Foster, with 
thirty men from the loth Regiment, made a complete 
reconnoissance of Morris Island, and declared it in a condi- 
tion to be easily captured by a small force. But difficulties 
with Hunter and his staff, arising from childish jealousies on 
their part, resulted in Foster's return to Newbem, leaving 
Stevenson's Brigade behind, which was soon after assigned 
to General O. S. Ferry's Division of the loth Corps. April 
9, 1863, the brigade left St. Helena Island for Edisto Inlet, 
and on the next day the loth Regiment landed under the 
guns of Commodore Rogers's monitor and drove the enemy 
from Seabrook Island, losing one killed and two wounded. 
While stationed on this island, the regiment was ordered to 
make a reconnoissance on John's Island, out of reach of 
support from the main bod3^ The enemy had taken up the 
planking of the bridge connecting the two islands, and had a 
good force of infantry, artillery, and cavalry stationed so as 
to prevent relaying it. Colonel Otis, having but a single 
regiment of infantry with him, retired to a good position and 
sent back for another regiment of infantry and a section of 
artillery. Meantime the enemy crossed to Seabrook Island 



230 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

with the hope of capturing the loth Regiment before re- 
enforcements could arrive; but they arrived in season and 
the enemy was attacked with such vigor that they were 
driven from the island in confusion, pulling up the bridge 
planking after them. 

On July 14, Stevenson's Brigade took transports for 
James Island, landed there on the sixteenth, and became a 
part of Terry's Division, loth Corps. On the seventeenth 
the enemy drove the 54th Massachusetts from its position, 
where it was holding one of the causeways, marched five 
regiments of infantry, a battery, and a squadron of cavalry 
on the island, and unwittingly formed their line of battle so 
that it left the loth Regiment on their right and rear. As 
our main line of battle outnumbered them two to one, and 
faced them at not more than two hundred and fifty yards 
distance. Colonel Otis begged permission to attack their 
right and rear while at this disadvantage, but permission 
was peremptorily refused. The two lines of battle faced 
each other for a few minutes without a shot being fired, then 
the enemy faced to the right, marched deliberately past our 
front, and off over one of the causeways, without molestation. 

Colonel Otis was ordered to ' ' follow them up closely, but 
in no case to bring on an action." This he did, capturing 
several prisoners. There is no doubt that every rebel soldier 
who came on the island would have been killed or captured 
had an attack been ordered. On the morning of the eigh- 
teenth Terry's Division marched across Cole's Island to a 
position opposite Folly Island, and after several hours' delay 
took transports for Morris Island — the whole brigade 
arriving just in time to form the third column of attack 
on Fort Wagner; but the order to charge was counter- 
manded just as the brigade came under fire. Next morning 
Chaplain Trumbull and Adjutant Camp, understanding that 
a truce had been agreed upon, went out among the wounded, 
and inadvertently getting within the enemy's lines, were 
captured and taken to Charleston. Two weeks later 
Colonel Otis was detailed for special duty, and Lieutenant- 



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Colonel Leggett having been severely wounded, the com- 
mand of the regiment devolved temporarily upon Major E. 
S. Greeley, of New Haven. Although the regiment suffered 
but little loss on the Morris Island, its service there was 
arduous and trying. The courage and soldierly quaUties of 
both officers and men were severely tested; they were con- 
stantly on duty, and at the front every third day, exposed to 
the fire of all the rebel fortifications about Charleston. 
When ordered to St. Augustine, after the capture of Fort 
Wagner, sixty per cent, of the men were on the sick list. 

In November, Colonel Otis was relieved from special duty, 
resumed command of the regiment, and was placed in com- 
mand of the Post and District of St. Augustine. While 
stationed here a force of the enemy's cavalry one hundred 
and sixty strong ambushed a detail of about thirty-five 
wood-choppers from the loth, commanded by an officer 
from another regiment ; the officer and two men were killed 
and twenty-one captured. 

April 18, 1864, the regiment took transports for Virginia, 
reported at Gloucester Point the twenty-fifth, and was 
assigned to the Third Brigade, Terry's (First) Division, loth 
Corps, Army of the James. This army was composed of the 
loth Corps under General Gillmore, and the Eighteenth 
Corps under General Smith, the whole under command of 
General B. F. Butler. 

On May 7, the regiment took a conspicuous part in the 
affair at Port Walthall Junction, driving the enemy away 
from the railroad and destroying the telegraph, while other 
troops tore up the track. General Plaisted, the brigade com- 
mander, who had never before seen the loth Regiment under 
fire, expressed astonishment and admiration at its matchless 
steadiness in action. May 13, 1 4. and 15, the regiment took 
an active part in all the preliminary movements and skir- 
mishing preceding the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, and on the 
sixteenth was conspicuous throughout the day in that 
engagement. The right flank of the i8th Corps should have 
rested on the James River, but "through somebody's blun- 



232 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

der, " it did not, and the enemy marched a force between 
that flank and the river, capturing two brigades and leaving 
the right in such condition that the loth Corps, which was 
forcing back the enemy's right, was ordered to withdraw and 
send re-enforcements to the i8th Corps. To the loth Regi- 
ment was assigned the duty of holding the enemy in check 
while Hawley's Brigade on its right and Pond's on the left 
withdrew from the front; a duty which rendered the regi- 
ment liable to be overwhelmed and captured by the heavy 
force sent against it. Here again it won the applause of 
many officers of rank who witnessed its conduct, holding the 
enemy in check until the other troops had gained a safe 
position, then retiring in perfect order, halting twice to drive 
back the pursuing forces. The brigade commander said of 
this affair in his official report : 

Of the loth C. v., I need hardly say more than that they 
fully sustained the splendid reputation they have hitherto 
borne. For steady and soldierly behavior under most trying 
circumstances . . . they may have been equalled, but never 
surpassed. Under a fire in which eighteen fell from the left 
of the regiment in almost as many seconds, not a man spoke a 
word or moved a heel from the alignment. 

The moment this duty had been accomplished the regi- 
ment was sent to the front farther to the right, with orders to 
hold the enemy in check there until other troops could gain a 
safe position; this accomplished. Colonel Otis was ordered to 
take his own and another regiment of infantry, with a section 
of artillery, advance to the Half -Way House, and hold a 
position there on the Richmond and Petersburg pike until 
the last of the i8th Corps had passed to the rear. The 
enemy, with both infantry and artillery, attempted to force 
the position, but failed completely. The loth Regiment 
was then sent far out to the right of our retreating army to 
protect its flank, and remained there until all had passed 
to the rear, then became the rear-guard back to Bermuda 
Hundred. In these movements the regiment lost thirty-six 



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killed and wounded, none missing, although at three 
different times during the sixteenth it had been in danger of 
capture through holding its ground so tenaciously while the 
corps was retiring. 

Early in June the regiment took part in repelling the 
attack of Beauregard on the Bermuda Hundred lines, when 
Major-General Walker of the rebel army was wounded, and 
captured; Beauregard himself barely escaped. June 15, the 
loth Regiment was on duty at the front near Wier Bottom 
Church, Major Greeley in command. About three o'clock 
in the morning signs of a movement on the part of the enemy 
were observed. A skirmish line soon demonstrated that the 
enemy was retiring, on which the main body of the regiment 
advanced so rapidly as to capture, without loss, the famous 
Howlett House Battery, with thirty men and two officers. 
On the evening of June 20, a division under General Terry 
moved down to Jones' Landing, on the James River, with 
orders to cross by a pontoon bridge and capture Deep 
Bottom, a position north of the James, and only nine miles 
from Richmond. There was so much delay with the pon- 
toons that the General, fearing daylight would reveal and 
defeat the movement before the bridge could be completed, 
ordered Colonel Otis to select another infantry regiment in 
addition to his own, cross the river in boats, and capture the 
position. The nth Maine was selected in addition to 
the loth Connecticut, the movement promptly executed, and 
the position captured at two o'clock in the morning. At 
daylight the enemy appeared in force with infantry and 
artillery to retake it, but were promptly repulsed. From 
this time to the end of the war Deep Bottom was the base 
of operations against Richmond. A few days later two 
detachments were sent out from the regiment to go within 
the enemy's lines, capture and destroy a gristmill with a 
large amount of grain, and also capture a torpedo station 
and bring away the apparatus. Both expeditions were 
completely successful. 

August 10, the regiment was on duty at the front. The 



234 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

enemy made determined attacks on the line and were 
repulsed with considerable loss. The loth Regiment being 
well protected lost but one killed and three wounded. The 
following correspondence between Generals Butler and 
Foster, relative to the affair, speaks for itself — no other 
troops than the loth Regiment were engaged: 

Headquarters Third Brigade, First Division, 
loth Corps, Army of the James, 

Deep Bottom, Va., August i, 1864. 
Colonel J. L. Otis, Commanding loth C. V.: 

Sir : — I have the honor to forward the following dispatch 
from Colonel J. W. Shaffer, Chief-of-Staff, in answer to a 
dispatch in relation to the affair in which your regiment was 
engaged this afternoon. 

The dispatch by telegraph from General Butler's Head- 
quarters, August I, 1864. 
General Foster: 

Your dispatch is received. The Commanding General 
thanks you and your troops for the gallant manner in which 
you repulsed the attack on your lines this evening. 

(Signed) J. W. Shaffer, Colonel and Chief-of-Staff. 
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

P. A. Davis, Capt. and A. A. G. 

July 26, Colonel Otis was again ordered to take the loth 
Connecticut and the nth Maine, cross from Deep Bottom 
to Strawberry Plains, and retake a position from which a 
brigade of the 19th Corps had been driven the evening before. 
The two regiments recovered the position, forced the enemy 
back into their intrenchments, and held a position within fifty 
yards of their works through the night. In the morning the 
two regiments joined a brigade of the 2nd Corps in charging 
the works; the loth Connecticut and the nth Maine carried 
an angle of the works, capturing three field guns. Loss of the 
loth Connecticut, nine killed and wounded. August 17, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Leggett, being too much disabled by 
wounds received on Morris Island to continue in the field, 
resigned and was succeeded by Major Greeley. 

August 26, the regiment fought with its usual gallantry 



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and steadiness in forcing the enemy's lines in front of Deep 
Bottom and Spring Hill, losing thirty-six killed and wounded. 
Two days later, with the 24th Massachusetts and looth New 
York, all under command of Colonel Otis, it took the advance 
in moving against the enemy at Deep Gully and Fuzzell's 
Mills, losing thirty- two killed and wounded. In short, the 
loth Connecticut was in all of the nameless and almost 
numberless fights and skirmishes of the Army of the James 
during the summer of 1864. August 28, the regiment was 
ordered into the lines at Petersburg, where it remained 
thirty days, and although no serious engagement took place 
there during the time, it suffered a loss of nineteen killed and 
wounded, having been under fire night and day the whole 
time. 

September 26, the regiment returned to the north bank of 
the James, and on the twenty-seventh took part in the 
engagement at Chapin's Farm, which resulted in the capture 
of Fort Harrison and Newmarket Heights. 

October i, General Bimey found that the enemy was 
moving in force northward across the front of the loth Corps, 
became alarmed for the safety of a body of troops under Gen- 
eral Terry that had been moved so far to the right as to 
become disconnected from the main body, and ordered the 
loth Regiment to advance without support and attack the 
marching column of the enemy. The regiment advanced so 
promptly that it took a force of the enemy's cavalry by sur- 
prise and sent it flying from the field ; then advancing rapidly, 
attacked the main body of the enemy in flank, compelling 
them to halt and form in line of battle facing the woods from 
which their cavalry and pickets had been driven. The loth 
Regiment, by changing position rapidly in the woods, gave 
the rebels the impression that they were attacked by a much 
heavier force, which kept them stationary until Terry's 
safety was assured. General Bimey personally thanked the 
regiment for the pluck and coolness it had displayed in 
attacking and keeping inactive for two hours a force that 
outnumbered it ten to one. 



236 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

September 30, the three years' term of the regiment 
expired. Losses in battle, by disease, and the muster-out of 
the non-re-enHsted men reduced the command to but Httle 
more that one hundred men present for duty. October 7, 
when Kautz's Cavalry was stampeded without making a 
fight, and Lee's Army came down to drive the Army of the 
James back across the river, the regiment on the right of the 
loth Connecticut broke and ran, leaving the loth Connecti- 
cut on the extreme right of the army, where it was attacked 
by a rebel brigade pushed forward to turn our flank ; the regi- 
ment stood its ground and drove back the entire brigade in 
confusion. The enemy rallied and again advanced, and was 
driven back the second time with heavy loss, leaving their 
dead, including three regimental commanders, on the field. 
The loss of the loth Regiment was eight killed and wounded. 
General Plaisted said of this affair in his official report: 
"In my opinion, the conduct of the loth Regiment, when the 
troops on its right broke and fled, saved the Army of the 
James from disaster. " 

October 13, the regiment, with but ninety men in the 
ranks, was ordered to join Pond's Brigade in charging a 
heavy and well-manned line of intrenchments on the Darby 
Road, five miles from Richmond. The force sent in was 
entirely inadequate and met with a bloody repulse, the loth 
Regiment losing forty-six killed and wounded — just one more 
than half the number taken into the fight. The enemy was 
not only thoroughly intrenched, but outnumbered the 
assaulting column five to one. During the service of more 
than three years, this was the first time the regiment had 
fallen back under fire. 

October 18, Colonel Otis was mustered out by reason of 
"expiration of term of service," and the command of the 
regiment devolved upon Colonel E. S. Greeley, of New Haven. 
October 28, the loth Regiment under his command had a 
sharp skirmish near the Gerhardt plantation with the loss of 
five wounded, and near the Johnson place on the twenty- 
seventh with one wounded. The following week the lOth 



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Connecticut was one of the regiments selected to go to New 
York City and preserve order there during the Presidential 
election. 

In November and December the regiment was recruited 
with substitutes up to about eight hundred men. March 
28, 1865, Colonel Greeley being absent on leave, the regiment, 
under command of Lieutenant- Colonel E. D. S. Goodyear, 
broke camp north of the James, with orders to march to the 
extreme left of the lines south of Petersburg. It reached 
Dinwiddle on the evening of the twenty-ninth ; on the thirty- 
first took post at Hatcher's Run, and the next morning at 
four o'clock was attacked by a brigade of North Carolina 
troops, which it whipped handsomely, taking a number of 
prisoners. April 2, four companies being on picket, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Goodyear was ordered to take the other six 
and join in the assault on Fort Gregg, a key to the inner 
defences of Petersburg. After a march of over three hours 
he joined the assaulting column, which had to advance under 
the fire of Forts Gregg, Bradley, and Cemetery Hill. The 
fighting for a foothold on the parapet of the fort was desper- 
ate, and continued for more than half an hour with the 
bayonet and clubbed muskets. The loth Regiment carried 
the southern angle of the works, and its state flag, with 
twenty-three bullet holes through it and three through the 
staff, was the first banner planted on the parapet. The des- 
perate character of the combat is shown by the losses sus- 
tained; out of thirteen officers and one hundred and eighty 
men of the loth Regiment that were engaged, eight officers and 
one hundred and eighteen men were killed or wounded. The 
corps commander, General Gibbons, presented to the regi- 
ment a bronze eagle in recognition of its services on the occa- 
sion. General Grant himself gave the order for the charge, 
and in his Memoirs speaks in high terms of the conduct of the 
troops engaged. Lieutenant-Colonel Goodyear was severely 
wounded in the charge, and the command of the regiment 
devolved upon Captain Hickerson, under whom it marched 
in the van of the infantry sent to support Sheridan. Lee's 



238 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

plan was to defeat the cavalry and escape around the flank 
of the Army of the Potomac. He had already broken 
through the cavalry when the infantry of the 24th Corps, 
after a march of almost unprecedented hardship, formed 
across his line of march, barring effectually his further pro- 
gress. Sabres alone, as Sheridan had foreseen, could not 
stop Lee's strong infantry column, but the bayonets of the 
loth and the i8th Corps (the old Army of the James), 
combined in the new 24th, proved an impassable barrier. 
The rebels advanced on the infantry and some sharp fighting 
took place, during which the loth Regiment had several men 
wounded and seven captured. The prisoners all escaped 
and got back during the day, but thoroughly cleaned out of 
everything valuable. 

The regiment remained at Appomattox until the last 
rebel had been paroled, leaving there on the fifteenth day of 
April, On the sixteenth Colonel Greeley resumed command 
of the regiment, which moved deliberately "On to Rich- 
mond," where it remained until August 26, when it was 
ordered home and was mustered out of service at Hartford, 
Connecticut, September 5, 1865 — four years, lacking twenty- 
five days. 

Principal Engagements. 

Roanoke Island, N. C, Feb. 8, 1862. 

Newbern, N. C, Mch. 14, 1862. 

Kinston, N. C, Dec. 14, 1862. 

Whitehall, N. C, Dec. 16, 1862. 

Goldsboro, N. C, Dec. 18, 1862. 

Seabrook Island, S. C, Mch. 28, 1863. 

Siege of Charleston, S. C, from July 28 to Oct. 25, 1863. 

St. Augustine, Fla., Dec. 30, 1863. 

Walthall Junction, Va., May 7, 1864. 

Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 13 to 17 (inclusive), 1864. 

Bermuda Hundred, Va., June 16, 1864. 

Deep Bottom, Va., June 20, 1864. 

Strawberry Plains, Va., July 26 and 27, 1864. 

Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. i, 1864. 

Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 14, 1864. 



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Deep Run, Va., Aug. 16, 1864. 

Deep Gully and Fuzzell's Mills, Va., Aug. 28 1864. 

Siege of Petersburg, Va., Aug. 28 to Sept. 29, 1864. 

Fort Harrison, Va., Sept. 27, 1864. 

Laurel Hill Church, Va., Oct. i, 1864. 

Newmarket Road, Va., Oct. 7, 1864. 

Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 13, 1864. 

Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864. 

Johnson's Plantation, Va., Oct. 29, 1864. 

Hatcher's Run, Va., Mch. 29 and 30, and Apl. i, 1865. 

Fort Gregg, Va., Apl. 2, 1865. 

Appomattox Court House, Va., Apl. 9, 1865. 

Mead, Daniel M., Major. 
Robbins, William A., Adjutant. 

Company B. 
Savage, WiUiam L., 2nd Lieutenant. 

Company C. 

Wright, Benjamin, ist Lieutenant. 

Company D. 
Kelley, Joseph M., Corporal, deserted. 

Company G. 
Mead, Thomas R., Captain. 

Privates. 
Donehue, William, McCue, James L., 

Hall, WiUiam, Sheran, Michael. 

Company H. 

Privates. 

Gill, George, Shippee, WilHam A., 

Moore, George. 

Company I. 

Close, Isaac O., ist Lieutenant. 
Marshall, William H., ist Lieutenant. 



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Sergeants. 



Bird, William, 
Ferris, Paul B., 
Green, Nerval, 
Holmes, Caleb M., 
Knapp, William H. H., 
Lombard, Joseph A., 
Long, William, 



Becker, Henry E., 
Bixby, Joseph E., 
Dayton, George H., 
Ferris, Alexander, 
Henderson, Alexander, 
Knapp, Obadiah M., 



Corporals. 



Willcox, Willis H. 



Loudon, Silas D,, 
Marshall, Drake S. 
Mead, Zachariah, 
Morrell, Daniel P., 
Ritch, William H. 
Schafer, Louis, 
Slater, William, 



Moe, Edward, 
Morrison, William, 
O'Bryan, Terrance, 
Peck, Elias S., 
Tillson, Zachariah, 
Wallace, John L., 



Sniffen, William, Musician. 



Lloyd, Thomas, Wagoner. 



Privates. 



Barrett, Patrick, 
Booth, Edmund, 
Brown, John H., 
Burns, Erastus, 
Bums, James H., 
Bums, Lyman, 
Bums, William A., 
Chamberlain, William S. , 
Chard, Ludlow L., 
Dibble, George B., 
Duffee, John, 
Finch, David L, 
Finch, Jared, 
Funston, George S., 
Gerald, James S., 
Hart, James, 
Hermance, William, 
Hoyt, Charles H., 
Hoyt, Peter, 
Hubbard, Holley, 
Hubbard, John, 



Hubbard, Julian A., 
Hughes, Charles, 
Hunt, Thomas P., 
Husted, Amos W., 
Husted, Nathan L., 
Jarman, George, 
Jarman, William, 
Johnson, Franklin, 
Lloyd, Samuel, 
Lockwood, Jonathan, 
Lockwood, William H., 
Lowrey, William, 
Lyon, Joshua, 
Lyon, Michael, 
Lyon, Samuel A., 
Manion, Patrick, 
Matthews, John B., 
McCann, Charles W., 
McCann, John, 
McDonald, James, 
Mead, Henry H., 



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Mead, James E., Robbins, Harrison, 

Mead, Silas E,, Rutherford, William, 

Miles, Elisha S., Schafer, John, 

Miller, Ralcey A., Scott, James H., 

Mills, Abram T., Scott, Warren N., 

Mills, Samuel E., Selleck, Stephen, 

Mosher, Leander, Sheeran, Patrick, 

Murry, Thomas, Studwell, George D., 

Olmstead, Osbom, Tinker, George E., 

Peterson, Charles, Waterbury, Lewis, 

Reuthsler, John, Webber, John, 

Ringrose, Elias, Weeks, Harvey J., 

Robbins, George P., Winus, John H. 

Unassigned Recruits. 
Hickson, George. Sims, John H. 

iiTH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Company C. 

Myers, Charles, deserted. 

I2TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Unassigned Recruits. 
Henry, William, Reamer, Jacob, Wood, Frank. 

13TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

This regiment was recruited at New Haven and left for 
Ship Island, Mississippi Sound, on March 17, 1862. It was 
mustered out of service on April 25, 1866, at Pulaski, Ga. 

Principal Engagements. 

Georgia Landing, La., October 27, 1862. 
Irish Bend, La., April 14, 1863. 
Port Hudson, La., May 24 and June 14, 1863. 
Cane River, La., April 23, 1864. 
Mansura, La., May 16, 1864. 
Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864. 
Fisher's Hill, Va., September 22, 1864. 
Cedar Creek, Va., October 17, 1864. 

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242 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Company B. 

Lockwood, Eliakim, Sergeant. 
Finnell, Aaron, Wagoner. 
Prindle, George, Private. 

14TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Company C. 

Reddy, Samuel, transferred. Smith, David, transferred. 

15TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

This regiment was recruited at New Haven during the 
month of August, 1862, and left for Washington, D. C, 
August 28, 1862. 

It was mustered out of service June 2^], 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 

Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. 
Edenton Road, Va., April 24, 1863. 
Providence Church Road, Va., May 3, 1863. 
Kinston, N. C, March 8, 1865. 

Privates. 

Company D. 

Hack, Charles, Weisensell, Frederick. 

Company E. 
Cull, John. 

Company G. 

Callahan, Robert, Jones, Thomas, 

Galvin, John, transferred. transferred. 

Sweeney, John, 

transferred. 

Company K. 

Hickey, John, transferred. 

Unassigned Recruit. 
Daly, Thomas. 



lyth Regiment 243 

17TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

History of the lyth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Written by Brevet Brigadier-General William H. Noble, 

late Colonel of the Regiment. 

This regiment was almost wholly enlisted from the sons 
of Fairfield County. The appointment of its colonel, 
William H. Noble, of Bridgeport, and the order for its rendez- 
vous as the county regiment at what is now the Seaside Park 
of that city, were made by Governor Buckingham at the 
earnest request of leading citizens of the county. The hour 
was dark, and there was desperate need of soldiers in the field. 
It was doubted whether the county alone could fill a regi- 
ment as rapidly as the whole State, but the men of Fairfield 
County took the risk. They pledged the Governor to have 
their good men and true as quickly at the front as any Con- 
necticut regiment. Well did Fairfield County fulfil that 
promise. 

Its colonel was commissioned on July 22, 1862. Within 
thirty days the regiment could have marched to the front a 
thousand strong. To it, Norwalk furnished two companies, 
A and F; Stamford, Company B; Danbury, Company C; 
Bridgeport, Company D, and parts of three others; West- 
port, Newtown, and Bridgeport made up Company E; 
Ridgefield, Redding and Bridgeport, Company G; New 
Canaan, Company H; Greenwich, Company I. Company 
K was furnished mostly from Fairfield and Bridgeport. 
Every town of the county sent a squad of soldiers to the 
regiment, which was mustered into the United States service 
on August 28, 1862, and left for the front by rail on the third 
of September following. Its departure was a rare scene of 
patriotic devotion and affection at parting. The date of its 
moving had become known throughout the county. On the 
third of September, from all its towns there thronged to 
Bridgeport, filling its seaside camp and the city, the kindred 
and friends of the regiment. They showered Godspeeds 
and blessings on their sons, and braced their hearts to the 



244 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

parting by pledges to keep all right and bright at the firesides 
of the county. 

The regiment thought it was going straight "to fight 
mit Sigel," as General Franz Sigel, commanding the nth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, had by permission of the War 
Department early won the consent of the regiment to join 
his force. On its arrival at Baltimore, however, it found 
that city alarmed by raids of the enemy's cavalry, and the 
regiment was stopped by General John E. Wool, then com- 
manding, and after a delay of a day or two was ordered to 
encamp as auxiliary to the garrison of Fort Marshall. This 
was an important earthwork and barracks just east of 
Baltimore, overlooking the city and harbor, and commanding 
a wide sweep of country. 

Neither the work given the regiment, nor the duties 
imposed, nor their military association, was pleasing. It 
therefore sought, through its colonel, a transfer to its original 
destination, Sigel's Corps. This action coming to the 
knowledge of General Wool, so angered him that, late on the 
night of October 14, 1862, he peremptorily ordered its 
colonel to have the 17th Regiment outside of Baltimore 
before noon of the fifteenth or take the consequences. 

At half-past eleven the next day, the regiment and all 
its belongings were speeding by rail to Washington. Arriving 
there at night, they were ordered next morning to Fort 
Kearney, one of the northwest defences of the Capital. 
After about a fortnight at this fort, on the fifth of November, 
a welcome order came for the regiment to report to General 
Sigel, at Gainesville, Va. His corps then held Thoroughfare 
Gap of the Bull Run Mountains. 

On reaching Gainesville, the regiment was imited with 
the 2nd Brigade, ist Division, of this Corps. This 2nd 
Brigade was made up of four regiments of Ohio men — the 
25th, 55th, 75th, and the 107th. Later on, the 157th New 
York was added, making, with the 17th Connecticut, six 
regiments, which served through the rest of the war close 
together in Virginia, on Folly and Morris Islands, S. C, and 



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in Florida. All were, either together or in detachments, in 
Florida under the command of Colonel Noble. 

Soon after the 17th Connecticut joined the nth Corps, 
it moved to Hopewell Gap, in the same mountain range, 
thence after a fortnight to Chantilly, Va., and on December 
6, 1862, it began a tedious seven days' winter march, through 
slush and snow, towards Fredericksburg, Va. The corps 
was held as a reserve to the advance of General Bumside's 
Army of the Potomac. 

After the disaster at Fredericksburg, the regiment spent 
its winter in camps at Stafford Court House, Belle Plain, 
and Brooke's Station, Va. All these posts were near land- 
ings on the Potomac and the railroad from Aquia Creek to 
Falmouth. 

On the last of April orders were given to make ready to 
move with the corps (now under command of General 
Howard) in the disastrous campaign of Chancellorsville. 
This was the first telling work the regiment had faced. The 
weather was excessively warm, and before Chancellorsville 
was reached all had got into light marching order, and the 
road was strewn with surplus impedimenta. The nth 
Corps crossed the Rappahannock at Kelly's Ford on pon- 
toons and the Rapidan at Germania Ford by a temporary 
bridge and by fording. On the field of Chancellorsville the 
regiment was stationed near the extreme right of the line. 
Two of its companies were on picket in the wilderness when 
Stonewall Jackson surprised and routed the nth Corps, 
whose commander was two miles away at the Chancel- 
lorsville House. This was the first trial of the 17th Regi- 
ment under fire. It lost in the battle (killed, wounded, and 
missing) 120 men. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Walter was 
instantly killed. He had been captured at the first Battle of 
Bull Run, and was only released from his imprisonment in 
time to receive the appointment of lieutenant-colonel of the 
regiment. Colonel Noble was severely wounded and his 
horse shot under him. Horace Greeley, on page 357 of his 
American Conflict singles out for commendation the hope- 



246 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

less rally of this regiment under Colonel Noble, in face of 
defeat and retreat all around it. 

After the withdrawal of General Hooker from this 
battlefield, the regiment and its corps rested near Brooke's 
Station until the Army of the Potomac began that following 
of Lee's advance which resulted in the Battle of Gettysburg. 
It reached that battlefield in the fiercest of the first day's 
fight. The regiment was pushed forward to the extreme 
right. Two of its companies, as volunteer sharpshooters, 
were sent to its outmost flank. The regiment was struck by 
an overwhelming force, under Confederate General Gordon, 
at Oakhill, now Barlow's Knoll. Here it lost most of its 
thirty-nine men who fell in that battle. The entire number 
of killed, wounded, and missing in the action was 198. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Fowler was instantly killed; 
Captain Wilson French was severely wounded; Major 
Allen G. Brady was severely contused and disabled by a 
shell splinter breaking the scapula. 

On that Oakhill now stands the regiment's monument to 
its dead in the battle. Looking from Cemetery Hill north- 
ward over the field of Gettysburg, it is a conspicuous land- 
mark. Around it sweeps the new military boulevard which 
is to encompass the entire battlefield. 

Overwhelmed and repulsed by the superior force of the 
enemy, the nth Corps retreated to Cemetery Hill. Here 
the regiment in its brigade line was posted at its northern 
foot." This place it held through the next two days of the 
battle. Its position was many times charged upon, but 
the enemy neither broke through nor disordered its ranks. 

On the sixth of July the regiment and its corps, with the 
rest of the army, began that following of the Confederate 
force which ended in its escape across the Potomac. It was 
several times close upon their pickets, and at Hagerstown, 
Md., was right on their breastworks, thrown up to hold off 
our attack while making ready to get over the Potomac. 
When the Union Army, after two days' delay, advanced, 
the enemy had crossed that river. The nth Corps soon 



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after passed over on pontoons, and marched, rested, and 
renewed their tattered clothing, worn from Gettysburg. 
A few unimportant movements were made and several 
positions briefly held. 

Early in August, 1863, at Catlett's Station, Va., the 
division (then Gordon's) was ordered to take rail for Alex- 
andria and there embark for the Southern Department. 
The transports reached Folly Island on August 12, 1863. 

The brigade under General Ames was soon transferred 
to Morris Island. It there saw the first gun fired in Gill- 
more's bombardment of Sumter, and its southwest wall 
battered into sand heaps. The regiment was many times, 
for several days, in the siege works approaching Fort Wag- 
ner. Two of its men were killed and several wounded. 
For two weeks, in and out of said works, the regiment was 
constantly under fire from Forts Wagner, Moultrie, and 
Johnson, and the batteries near Charleston. Shell and 
round shot reached nearly the whole of Morris Island. The 
regiment met here the 6th and 7th Connecticut, worn by 
long and hard service in this department. General Terry, 
commanding these and other troops, was the next in rank 
under General Gillmore. He had made ready to assault 
Wagner in three columns, when its evacuation over night 
was announced. 

On Morris Island, before the fall of Wagner, the 17th, 
with all the regiments of its division, had volunteered to 
make a night assault upon the walls of Sumter. But the 
claim of the navy to that honor relieved it from the chance of 
death or glory. Both might have been the outcome from 
such an assault. 

After Wagner fell, until about February 23, 1864, the 
regiment with all its division remained camped on Folly 
Island. A brief expedition to St. John's Island had been the 
only event. At that date an order came for Ames's Brigade 
to embark for Florida. The disaster at Olustee threatened 
to be followed up by an effort to drive our forces out of that 
district. On arrival at Jacksonville, General Seymour, 



248 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

commanding, gave General Ames a division, of which the 
1st Brigade was under General Hawley, the 2nd Brigade 
under Colonel Noble. After about a month without inci- 
dent, the whole force at Jacksonville was broken up. All 
re-enlisted regiments were sent north to the Army of the 
Potomac; the 17th relieved the loth Connecticut at St. 
Augustine; the Ohio boys remained at Jacksonville. From 
this time to the end of the war the regiment's headquarters 
were at St. Augustine. One company usually garrisoned the 
old Fort San Marco ; the rest were scattered on raids and at 
posts. The regiment had been but a few days at St. Augus- 
tine when all but that garrison were ordered to Volusia, 
seventy-five miles up the St. John's River, and to hold posts 
at Welaka and Saunders below. Right away these two 
out-of-way posts were captured, and their force of thirty- 
nine men and two officers were taken to Anderson ville. The 
two companies left at Volusia, by pluck and strategy held on 
until relieved. Soon after. General Gordon, then command- 
ing Florida, placed in charge of Colonel Noble all the territory 
east of the St. John's River. This brought Lieutenant- 
Colonel Wilcoxson in immediate command of the regiment 
and of St. Augustine. Generals Bimey, Gordon, and 
Hatch, who severally commanded Florida during 1864, sent 
the regiment and other forces under Colonel Noble on 
various raids through Florida. The results of these raids, 
though successful, were of no great military importance, but 
they subjected the regiment to the trying effects of the 
climate, and planted the seeds of lasting disease. 

On December 24, 1864, when returning across the 
country from a court martial at Jacksonville to St. Augus- 
tine, Colonel Noble was captured by guerillas and taken to 
Macon and Andersonville, Ga. Lieutenant- Colonel Wilcox- 
son, thus left in command of the regiment, was, about Feb. 4, 
1864, on an expedition to Braddock's Farm, on the south of 
Dunn's Lake, some fifty miles from St. Augustine, mortally 
wounded while endeavoring to escape from Dixon's Cavalry. 
At the same time Adjutant Chatfield was instantly killed, 



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and thirty- two men and two officers and a lot of army teams 
captured. The men were taken to Andersonville. 

From this time, the regiment served without any impor- 
tant occurrence through the winter of 1864-5 and the follow- 
ing spring to about June, 1865, when it was ordered to 
rendezvous at Jacksonville, preparatory to discharge and 
departure for home. The regiment was mustered out at 
Hilton Head on July 19, 1865. 

Thus passed out of the service and into history one of 
those Connecticut regiments whose entire conduct and 
capacity conferred immortal honor on the state, and con- 
tributed so essentially to uphold the authority of the nation. 

Principal Engagements. 

Chancellors ville, Va., May 2, 1863. 
Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-4, 1863. 
Morris Island and Fort Wagner, Aug. 1863. 
Welaka and Saunders, Fla., May 19, 1864. 
Dunn's Lake, Fla., Feb. 5, 1865. 

Company B. 

Corporals. 
Cox, Walter H., Stottler, Christopher. 

Privates. 

Nichols, John A., Ritch, Charles F., 

Ruscoe, William W. 



Company G. 

Privates. 
Vanderhoff, Jacob C. 

Company I. 

Benson, D. Oliphant, Captain. 
Haight, Thomas A., ist Lieutenant. 
Mead, David W., ist Lieutenant. 
Peck, George C, ist Lieutenant. 
Held, J. Henry, 2nd Lieutenant. 



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250 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Sergeants. 



Chard, Samuel S., 
Eagan, Dennis, 
Ingersoll, Oliver S., 
Maguire, James E., 



Baker, William A., 
Brundage, Thomas, 
Comings, Harrison H., 
Dayton, Charles A., 
Elliott, B. Franklin, 
Fisher, Samuel, 
McElroy, James. 



Corporals. 



Mead, Isaac L., 
Peck, Henry V., 
Rae, John W., 
Sackett, William. 



Marshall, John, 
Peck, Benjamin, 
Piatt, Charles P., 
Purdy, Charles E., 
Purdy, Vincent B., 
Warren, Daniel W., 
Worden, Abram M. 



Purdy, John, Jr., Musician. 



Alexander, Henry, 
Barmore, John B., 
Barrett, Patrick, 
Birdsall, James, 
Booth, Daniel, 
Booth, R. William, 
Burnett, John, 
Bums, Alfred, 
Clark, Michael, 
Collins, Thomas C, 
Cromma, Archibald, 
Cumisky, John, 
Dayton, Clinton, 
Dayton, Gilbert W., 
Deblois, William D,, 
Doharty, John, 
Dove, William, 
Drumm, Charles, 
Edwards, Thomas, 
Farrell, John, 
Fay, John, 
Ferris, John W., 
Finch, Washington I., 
Fitzgerald, Thomas, 



Privates. 



Flood, John R., 
Frary, William, 
Grady, Thomas, 
Gregory, William S., 
Heame, James, 
Husted, Elnathan. 
Jarman, Walter M., 
June, William M., 
Kinch, Elbert R., 
Light, David, 
Light, James H,, 
Lowdon, John A,, 
Lowdon, Merritt A., 
Marshall, Enoch Y., 
Moore, James T., 
Morrell, George, 
O' Doharty, Philip, 
Palmer, Lewis, 
Palmer, Solomon, 
Peck, Nathan E., 
Piatt, William J., 
Provost, William H., 
Purdy, William, 
Reddington, Edward, 



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Reynolds, George W., VanWert, Samuel, 

Riordan, John, Weed, Edward, 

Sackett, John, Wood, WilHam L., 

Sargent, George B., Worden, Eliakim F., 

Scofield, John W., Wright, James. 
VanNess, George S., 

Unassigned Recruits. 
Sibert, James. Snider, James. 

I 8th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Company G. 
Browning, James, deserted. 

20TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Company K. 
Lyon, Richard T., transferred. 

23RD Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

The 23rd Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was 
organized in September, 1862, recruited in New Haven and 
Fairfield Counties, and rendezvoused at Camp Terry, New 
Haven. The regiment was assigned to General Banks's 
expedition, received marching orders on the sixteenth day of 
November, 1862, proceeded to Camp Buckingham, Long 
Island, and embarked for New Orleans, Louisiana, during 
the month of December, 1862. It was for the greater 
part of the time engaged in guarding New Orleans and the 
Opelousas Railroad. 

It was mustered out of service at New Haven on the 
thirty-first day of August, 1863. 

Company D. 

Privates. 
Mead, Watson N. 



252 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 
28th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

History of the 28th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Written by Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Batcheller, late of the 

Regiment. (Abridged.) 

This was the last Connecticut regiment organized under 
the call for nine months' volunteers. It was recruited in the 
4th Congressional District, and was composed of only eight 
companies : five companies from Fairfield County and three 
companies from Litchfield County. 

Samuel P. Ferris of Stamford, a graduate of West Point, 
was commissioned colonel, holding the office during the 
entire service of the regiment, and was a great favorite with 
the men. 

The regiment rendezvoused, about September 15, 1862, 
at New Haven, and was in tents and barracks at Camp Terry 
about two months. On November 15th the regiment was 
mustered into the service of the United States, and three 
days later took leave of New Haven and Connecticut 
by boat. On November 19, the regiment went into 
camp at Centerville, on Long Island, for ten days only, 
as it broke camp November 29, and six companies 
went on board steamer Che Kiang, with a portion of 
the 23rd Connecticut, under command of Colonel Holmes. 
The two companies not on the Che Kiang, were sent by 
steamer, and joined the regiment after many disagreeable 
experiences. 

The Che Kiang sailed from New York on December 3, 
1862, and had a very rough passage, encountering a terrible 
storm off Hatteras, but reached Ship Island safely on the 
twelfth. The regiment remained only long enough to 
recover from seasickness and then re-embarked and sailed 
from Ship Island December 17, 1862. On December 19, 
1862, it landed at Camp Parapet at Carrollton, La., but 
remained there only for a short time, leaving for Pensacola, 
Fla., on the twentieth and arriving there on the twenty- 



28th Regiment 253 

second, where it remained until May 20, 1863, when the 
regiment moved to Barrancas. 

On May 10, 1863, the regiment left Barrancas by steamer 
and on the twelfth landed at Brashear City, La., and left 
there without regret on May 23, arriving at Springfield 
Landing May 25, and at Port Hudson on May 26th. While 
at this place, and until the surrender was made by the Con- 
federates, the regiment was continually under fire, and 
assisted in all the various siege operations and in the 
trenches. 

In the assault on June 14, 1863, it furnished one hundred 
of the two hundred and fifty men for the storming party of 
"forlorn hope." Its loss in killed and wounded was severe 
in this engagement. At the surrender the regiment moved 
inside the fortifications and remained at this place until its 
departure for home on August 7, 1863. Several died on the 
way home, having become enfeebled by the climate and by 
disease previous to embarking for Connecticut. The route 
home was via Mississippi River to Cairo, and thence by 
rail. 

On August 28, 1863, the survivors were mustered out at 
New Haven. 

Principal Engagements. 

Siege of Port Hudson, La., May 27 to July 9, 1863. 
Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863. 

Wescome, William B., Major. 

Company H. 

Middleton, George W., Captain. 
Kiley, James, ist Lieutenant. 

Sergeants. 

Gonnong, Aaron, Lockwood, J. Albert, 

Halligan, John H., Olmstead, George W., 

Taylor, Edward H. 



254 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Duffy, James, 
Ferris, Elicom M., 
Ferris, William H. 
Heohl, Charies, 
Kyle, Joshua, 



Corporals. 

Marshall, John W., 
Moore, Isaac, 
Peck, Curtis H,, 
Rider, Augustus B., 
Sargent, Wilham L., 
Stillwell, Ly Sander. 



Musicians. 

Malin, Michael, Purdy, Alvah B. 

Louden, James, Wagoner. 

Privates. 



Boles, John, 
Boyle, William, 
Butterworth, David, 
Cane, Michael, 
Cannon, John, 
Dayton, Walter B., 
Denton, Matthew, 
Dill worth, Patrick, 
Fields, Edward, 
Finch, George W., 
Finney, Charles, 
Fisher, John, 
Fitzpatrick, Martin, 
Fox, Nicholas, 
Hatter, Harvey, 
Hodge, Hull H., 
Horton, Starr S., 
Hubbard, Charles, 
Kelley, Joseph, 
Kiley, Eugene, 
Lahay, Thomas, 
Lane, George E., 
Lloyd, George, 

Williamson, 



Lockwood, Henry B, 
McGuire, Peter, 
McTavy, Francis, 
Mahoney, Edward, 
Miley, Thomas, 
Miller, Burtis, 
Moore, George, 
Newman, James F,, 
O'Brien, Peter, 
Palmer, Gilbert M., 
Palmer, Isaac, 
Palmer, Walter F., 
Parks, Samuel R., 
Partlow, Richard, 
Slagle, Sullivan, 
Smith, Charles B., 
Stone, Rufus B., 
Tenpany, Ard., 
Van Houton, Albert, 
Washburn, Charles E., 
Washburn, Thomas, Jr., ^ 
Wellstood, John G., Jr., 
Wesley, Stephen P., 
Abraham. 



29TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, 

Colored. 



Recruiting for this regiment commenced early in the 



Soldiers in the Civil War 255 

fall of 1863, and by the latter part of January, 1864, the 
maximum number had been enlisted. It left New Haven 
March 20, 1864, for Annapolis, Md., and was assigned to the 
9th Corps. 

It was mustered out of service on October 24, 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 

Near Petersburg, Va., August 13 to September 24, 1864. 
Advance on Richmond, Va., September 2'] to October i, 

1864. 
Darbytown Road, Va., October 13, 1864. 
Kell House, Va., October 2'] to 2%, 1864. 

Company A. 

Privates. 
Banks, John, Mills, William 0. 

Company B. 

Sergeants. 

Fuller, Benjamin, Green, James H. 

Thomas, George B. 

Private. 
Hicks, WiUiam H. 

Company C. 

Privates. 

Carpenter, Thomas, Corporal, Green, Charles E., 
Green, William. 

Company D. 

Potter, George T., Corporal. 

Company E. 

Privates. 

Jennison, Henry J., Moore, Charles, 

Meade, William, Peterson, Robert, 

Merritt, Whitman, Watson, Horace. 



256 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Company F. 

Privates. 

Castin, Isaac, Merritt, Isaac, 

Coffin, Abram P., Robinson, James. 

Company H. 
Brown, Alexander, Private. 

Company I. 

Privates. 
Taylor, Jefferson, Thornton, Richard. 

30TH Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, 

Colored. 

This regiment was organized during the winter of 
1 863-1 864, to the extent of four companies, which were 
ordered to Virginia, June 4, 1864, and consolidated with the 
31st Regiment, United States Colored Troops, which was 
assigned to the 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Army- 
Corps. 

It was mustered out of service on December i, 1865. 

Principal Engagements. 

Petersburg Mine, Va., July 30, 1864. 

Near Fort Sedgwick, Va., October, 1864. 

Bermuda Front, Va., November 18 to December 30, 1864. 

Before Petersburg, Va., March 29 to April 2, 1865. 

Surrender of Lee, April 9, 1865. 

Company C. 

Singleton, Thomas H., Sergeant. 
Ward, Albert, Private. 

Company D. 

Quiller, Elias, Sergeant, Williams, Amos, Corporal. 



Soldiers in the Civil War 257 

Privates. 

Baker, Charies, Hannibal, William, 

Barker, Emmett, Johnson, Frank, 

Byas, Edward, Lee, William, 

Garrison, Edward, Palmer, Bethuel, 

Thompson, Morris. 

The following men served in companies other than those 
recruited within the State of Connecticut. 



Banks, David C, 
Berry, Charles, 
Bloomiield, Samuel, 
Bums, James, 
Childs, Frederick W., 
Collins, John, 
Davis, Simon J., 
Doran, Dennis, 
Downs, Silas B., 
Dunn, Daniel D., 
Edwards, Albert W., 
Feeks, William H., 
Ferris, George T., 
Fitzgerald, Henry M., 
Foster, John E., 
Gales, George, 
Glover, Charles S., 
Hall, Russell T., 
Higgins, Henry E., 
Johnson, William T., 
Kennedy, Lewis E., 
Louden, William A., 

Mullen, Patrick, 
Painter, William M., 
Palmer, John, 
Place, R. L., 
Pugsley, Floyd T., 
Reynolds, Edward, 
Reynolds, Israel, 
Riley, Edward, 



Company B, 51st N. Y. V. 
Company E, 4th N. Y. Artillery. 
Company G, 92nd N. Y. V. 
Company E, 23rd Ills. V. 
Company B, 24th Wis. V. 
Company H, 150th N. Y. V. 
Company C, 120th N. Y. V. 
14th New York Cavalry. 
Company B, 17th N. Y. V. 
Company B, 6th N. Y. V. 
Company K, 25th Mass. V. 
1 8th Independent Battery. 
Company H, 4th N. Y. V. 
3rd N, Y. Independent Battery. 
Company H, 13th Ills. V. 
Company A, 27th N. Y. V. 
Company D, 37th N. Y. V. 
Company H, 150th Ohio V. 
6th N. Y. Heavy Artillery. 
Chicago Met. Battery. 
Company G, 56th N. Y. V. 
Company C, 5th N. Y. Heavy 

Artillery. 
Company D, 77th N. Y. V. 
Company C, 71st N. Y. V. 
Company C, 72nd N. Y. N. G. 
Company E, 127th N. Y. V. 
Company K, 51st N. Y. V. 
Company A, 27th N. Y. V. 
23rd N. Y. V. 
Company F, 5th N. Y. Heavy 

Artillery. 



258 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Sampson, Augustus, 

Starkins, Samuel S., 
Talcott, Richard H. L., 
Teufle, John G., 
Tiemey, Jeremiah, 
Wakefield, W. F., 

Washburn, Thomas W., 
Waterbury, Squire A., 

Waterman, Charles B., 
White, John C, 
Worden, Isaac, 
Worden, Zenas M., 



Company G, ist Vermont 

Cavalry. 
34th N. Y. Independent Battery. 
Company D, 20th Mass. V. 
Company P, 146th N. Y. V. 
Company K, 69th N. Y. N. G. 
Company E, 2nd N. Y. Heavy 

Artillery. 
1 8th N. Y. Independent Battery. 
Company D, 6th N. Y. Heavy 

Artillery. 
Company A, 30th N. Y. N. G. 
Company H, 134th N. Y. V. 
68th Indiana V. 
68th Indiana V. Prisoner at 

Anderson ville. 



Regulars. 

Knapp, Obadiah M., Major, 121st U. S. C. I. 

Cashmer, Prederic, Pireman, Gunboat Essex. 

Ferris, George P., Company C, 17th Regiment. 

Haggerty, James, United States Navy. 

Miles, Joseph, Sloop St. Louis. 

Mills, William H., United States Navy. 

Nicola, Robert P., Company D, nth U. S. C. I. 

Slater, Atwood, Assistant Engineer, U. S. N. 

Slater, Sandford A., Engineer, U. S. N. 

Thompson, Henry, Company C, 26th U. S. C. I. 

The surrender of General Robert E. Lee on the ninth 
day of April, 1865, ended the war. 



CHAPTER XIII 

FROM THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT TIME — 
TOWN BONDS — INDEBTEDNESS OF THE TOWN — CENTEN- 
NIAL CELEBRATION OF GENERAL PUTNAM'S RIDE — ^LOCK- 
UP — BURNING OF BARNS OF ALEXANDER MEAD DOCKS 

AT ROCKY NECK POINT AND ON BYRAM SHORE — SPANISH- 
AMERICAN WAR — UNVEILING OF THE PUTNAM MONU- 
MENT — UNVEILING OF THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' 
MONUMENT — TOWN MEETINGS AND DEDICATION OF THE 
PRESENT TOWN HALL — DEATH OF ROBERT M. BRUCE — 
BRUCE MEMORIAL PARK — DEDICATION OF PUTNAM COT- 
TAGE — captain's island — ^MILITIA — INVESTIGATION OF 
TOWN AFFAIRS — NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT — BOROUGH 
OF GREENWICH. 

The Civil War left the town heavily in debt, and the 
high rate of interest and the extraordinary expenditures 
which it was compelled to meet immediately following the 
close of the war ran the indebtedness up to about $188,000.00 
in 1877 when a special meeting was held on the twenty-sixth 
day of May, and bonds to the extent of $200,000.00 at the 
rate of six per cent, interest were authorized to be issued to 
meet the floating debt. 

At a special town meeting held on the twenty-third day 
of June, 1887, the special committee appointed at a special 
meeting held on the eighth day of January, 1887, to enquire 
into the expediency and advisability of refunding the town 
bonds at a lower rate of interest, respectfully reported that 
they "are of the opinion that it is practicable to refund the 

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26o Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

existing bonded indebtedness to the town at a lower rate of 
interest." 

Your committee are of the opinion that a bond of the 
same tenor as the present bond, but bearing date July i, 
1887, and interest at the rate of four per cent., payable semi- 
annually, can be placed upon the market at a fair premium. 

A. Foster Higgins, ) 

Liike A. Lock wood, /• Committee. 

Alfred A. Rundle. ) 
which report was duly accepted, and it was : 

Resolved, that the Town of Greenwich do issue its 
bonds to the amount of $180,000.00, or such part of said 
amount as may be necessary to pay its present existing bonds 
tmder the terms thereof. Said bonds bearing date July i , 
1887, and be in denominations of $500.00 and $1,000.00, 
payable after the expiration of twenty-five years, interest 
four per cent. 

The following committee in conjunction with the select- 
men were appointed for the purpose of preparing and nego- 
tiating the town bonds: A. Foster Higgins, Luke A. 
Lockwood, and E. C, Benedict. 

At a special town meeting held on the nineteenth day of 
January, 1895, it was: 

Resolved, that the selectmen and town treasurer of 
the Town of Greenwich be and they hereby are authorized 
and empowered to issue and sign coupon bonds of the Town 
of Greenwich in denominations of not less than $500.00 to 
the amount of $125,000.00, bearing interest at no greater 
rate than four per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. 
The principal of said bonds to be payable twenty years from 
date with the right to pay the same on any interest day after 
ten years from date, coupons only to be signed by the treas- 
urer. The proceeds from the sale of said bonds to be used 
in the payment of debts of said town heretofore incurred. 

At an adjourned annual town meeting held on the fifth 
day of December, 1908, the special committee appointed at 
an adjourned annual town meeting held on the nineteenth 



Town Debt 261 

day of October, 1908, for the purpose of ascertaining and 
funding the town debt, reported the indebtedness as fol- 
lows: 

Bonded Indebtedness. 

Bonds of 1887, 4% $160,000.00 

Coupon bonds of 1895, 4%. . . 125,000.00 
School bonds of 1907, 4% 100,000,00 



Total bonded indebtedness $385,000.00 

Floating Indebtedness. 

Outstanding notes at 5% $339,550.00 

Outstanding notes at 6% 252, 100.00 

Due State for Town Deposit 

and School Fund 8,962.24 

Total Floating Indebtedness 600,612.24 

Total Town Debt $985,612.24 

The committee recommended that the town, upon leave 
from the legislature, issue bonds to the extent of $1,000,000.- 
00, payable in fifty years, bearing interest at no greater rate 
than four per cent, per annum. The bond issue to be secured 
by a sinking fund of $8,800.00 per annum with interest at 
three per cent., which will redeem the bonds at par, at 
maturity. 

Luke Vincent Lockwood, ) 

M. J. Quinn, \ Committee. 

E. N. Chapman. ) 

At a special town meeting held on the twenty-seventh 
day of February, 1909, it was: 

Resolved, that the Town of Greenwich issue its bonds 
to the amount of $600,000.00, in serial bonds, said bonds to 
be coupon bonds, and to be for $1,000 each, and twelve of 
said bonds to mature annually during fifty years, said bonds 
to bear interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum, pay- 
able semi-annually. Said bonds shall be signed by the 



262 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

committee named herein, and the treasurer of the town shall 
keep a record of the same. 

Resolved further, that the principal of said bonds shall be 
paid by taxation in equal annual installments, during the 
said period of fifty years ; such annual principal sum and the 
interest shall be authorized each year as a separate item on 
the tax bill of all tax-payers, and when paid shall be placed 
in a separate account to the credit of the town, to be used 
only for such purpose. 

In the event that the entire amount of said tax shall not 
have been paid and received by the treasurer within one 
week prior to the date when such annual principal sum and 
interest shall be due and payable, the treasurer of the town 
shall borrow upon the credit of the town and against the tax 
so levied, an amount sufficient to meet such payments, which 
loans shall be repaid out of the special tax so laid, when 
collected. 

Resolved further, that Nathaniel A. Knapp, Edwin N. 
Chapman and Martin J. Quinn be, and they are hereby 
appointed a committee with full power to employ counsel, 
and to incur necessary expenses in connection with the 
issuing of said bonds, including the preparation and printing 
of the bonds; such expenses to be paid out of the bond sale 
upon the requisition of said committee ; that said committee 
shall have full power to arrange for and sell sufficient of the 
bonds to pay all the valid outstanding floating indebtedness 
of the town and expenses of said bond issue. The proceeds 
of said sale to be placed to the credit of the town in one or 
more financial institutions approved by said committee, and 
the proceeds shall be withdrawn by a check of the town 
treasurer countersigned by the members of said committee. 
In case of the death, resignation, or physical inability of any 
member, or members, of said committee, the survivor, or 
survivors, shall act until the successor, or successors, shall be 
elected at a town meeting to be called for that purpose within 
one month from the date of such death, resignation, or 
inability, to act. 

Said bonds not to be sold below par. 

The bonds were advertised to be sold on the twentieth 
day of July, 1909, but no bids were received; owing, it was 
claimed by many, to the fact that the issue was irregular, in 
that the bonds were signed by the committee and not by the 



Town Bonds 263 

selectmen, that the selectmen were the only persons who 
could legally pledge the credit of the town, and that their 
power so to do could not be delegated. Further, that the 
resolution authorizing the treasurer of the town to borrow 
money upon the credit of the town for a current obligation, 
in the event that the entire amount of the special tax levied 
to pay off the maturing bonds and interest had not been 
collected, was claimed to be unconstitutional. From the fore- 
going resolution it will be seen that the expenses incurred in 
connection with the preparation and printing of the bonds, 
together with counsel fees, are a charge against the town 
ultimately. 

At a special town meeting held on the nineteenth day of 
February, 1910, it was: 

Resolved that Nathaniel A. Knapp, Edwin N. Chap- 
man and Martin J. Quinn be and the same are hereby 
authorized and empowered to sell and deliver the bonds of 
the said Town of Greenwich mentioned and provided for in 
the Act of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, 
passed at the January Session thereof, 1909, in accordance 
with the terms of said act, and for a sum not less than par 
and to take all such action as may be necessary in the matter 
of the execution, issuance, sale and negotiation thereof, 
including the payment of a broker's commission of not more 
than one half of one per cent, to Saunder & Jones, 35 Wall 
Street, New York City. 

The bonds were finally sold in April, 1910. 
At a special town meeting held on the second day of 
October, 1909, it was: 

Resolved that Nathaniel A. Knapp, E. N. Chapman 
and Martin J. Quinn, heretofore appointed a committee to 
co-operate with and assist the selectmen in preparing a 
proper and practicable funding plan to be submitted to the 
next annual town meeting, or the adjournment thereof, be 
dismissed. 

Resolved further that E. C. Converse, Charles B. AUyn 
and William J. Smith be and are hereby appointed a 
committee to co-operate with and assist the selectmen in pre- 



264 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

paring a proper and practicable funding plan to be sub- 
mitted at the next annual town meeting, or the adjournment 
thereof. 

Centennial Celebration in Commemoration of the 

Ride of General Israel Putnam at Horseneck, 

February 26, 1779. Observed February 22, 1879. ' 

The proceedings were inaugurated at sunrise by the firing 
of an artillery salute and the ringing of church bells. The 
old Knapp Tavern, in which there were many Revolutionary 
mementos loaned by residents for the occasion, was profusely 
decorated with bunting, as also were the public buildings and 
residences along the line of march and throughout the 
village. People began to pour into the village at an early 
hour in the morning and by midday the streets were crowded. 

At twelve o'clock the procession, having been formed 
in Putnam Avenue, right resting on Greenwich Avenue, 
moved forward in the following order. 

Sheriff Aaron Sanford, and Deputy Sheriffs John Dayton 

and O. Bartram. 

Wheeler and Wilson Band of Bridgeport. 

Grand Marshal Edward J. Wright. 

Aids, H. Frank June, James L. Marshall, M.D., and 

Jacob V. Close. 

Veterans of the Mexican War. 

Veterans of the RebelHon, WilHam H. Bailey, Marshal. 

Greenwich Light Guard, Company F, 4th Regiment, 

C. N. G., Captain Fred D. Knapp commanding. 

Putnam Phalanx of Hartford, Major F. M. Brown 

commanding. 

President of the Day A. Foster Higgins, with Hon. Gideon 

Hollister, Orator; Colonel Samuel B. Sumner, Poet; 

and Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt, Historian. 

Distinguished Invited Guests in Carriages accompanied by 

Members of the Reception Committee. 

Chief Engineer James W. Finley and Assistants of the Port 

Chester Fire Department. 

Putnam Engine Company, W. S. Chapin, Foreman. 

' From the printed Report of the Celebration. 



Centennial Celebration of Gen. Putnam's Ride 265 

Putnam Hose Company, James H. Merritt, Foreman. 

Officers of the Town of Greenwich. 

Officers of the Borough of Greenwich. 

Citizens on Foot. 

Battery. 

The procession accompanied by a large dense crowd of 
pedestrians on both sides, marched through Putnam Avenue 
to Put's Hill, making a circuit of the hill by the old road (now 
closed), thus coming in full view of the precipitous bluff 
down which General Putnam rode, and then countermarched 
back to the Second Congregational Church, where the public 
exercises were held. 

The historic church was filled to its utmost capacity. 
The Putnam Phalanx of Hartford occupied the centre of the 
church, and their continental uniforms added much to the 
impressiveness of the celebration. A portrait of General 
Putnam, by H. J. Thompson, hung from the gallery, and the 
platform was decorated with plants and flowers. 

Among the invited guests present were: 

Hon. Gideon Hollister. 

Colonel Samuel B. Sumner. 

General Joseph R. Hawley, United States Senator. 

Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell. 

Hon. Talmadge Baker, State Treasurer. 

Hon. William H. Putnam of Brooklyn, Conn., a great- 
grandson of General Israel Putnam, and a member of 
the House of Representatives of the State of Connecti- 
cut. 

Jedediah Pendergrast Merritt of St. Catharines, Canada, 
grandson of Thomas Merritt, the tory who chased 
General Putnam to the brow of the hill. 

Hon. Oliver Hoyt of Stamford, Senator of the 12th 
Senatorial District, Connecticut. 

Colonel Vincent Colyer of Darien. 

Hon. Dwight L. Williams of Hartland. 

Hon. R. H. Rowan of Norwalk. 

Hon. William E. Raymond of New Canaan, Ex-State 
Treasurer. 

Lieut. -Colonel J. N. Bacon, 2nd Regiment, C. N. G. 



266 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Ex-Sheriff George W. Lewis of Bridgeport. 

S. A. Hubbard and Captain John C. Kinney of the Hart- 
ford Courant. 

Ex-Representative Bacon of Middletown. 

Rev. S. B. S. Bissell of Norwalk. 

Rev. C. E. Glover of New York. 

Charles A. Hawley, President of the Stamford National 
Bank. 

Rev. Dr. Rogers of Stamford. 

Professor J. H. Van Amringe of Columbia College. 

Rev. Matthew Hale Smith of New York. 

John P. Hollister of Litchfield. 

Henry W. Lyon of Westport. 

Warren H. Burr of the Hartford Times. 

N. A. Tanner of the New Haven Palladium. 

William A. Countryman of the New Haven Register. 

Hon. John D. Candes of the Bridgeport Standard. 

Robert E. Day of the New Haven Union. 

Frederick Penfield of the Hartford Evening Post and 
Boston Globe. 

Joseph Ells of the Norwalk Gazette. 

Henry W. Vail of the Shore Line Times. 

Edward Z. Lewis of the New York Sun. 

Lawrence A. Kane of the New York Times. 

William W. Gillespie of the Stamford Advocate. 

M. H. Babcock of the New York World. 

J. Meads Warren of the Stamford Herald. 

The assemblage having been called to order by A. Foster 
Higgins, President of the Day, the following order of exer- 
cises was followed: 

Prayer. 
Rev. Charles R. Treat, Pastor of the Second Congregational 

Church. 

Address of Welcome. 
A. Foster Higgins, President of the Day. 

Reading of the Scriptures and Prayer. 
Rev. Charles R. Treat. 



Centennial Celebration of Gen. Putnam's Ride 267 

Historical Address. 

Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt. 

On General Putnam and the events leading up to Governor 

Tryon's Raid. 

The Poem. 
Colonel Samuel B. Sumner. 

This poem on General Putnam's ride was composed by 
Colonel Sumner and delivered with great unction. Several 
verses were highly applauded by the audience, especially the 
following : 

A supercilious Johnny Bull — the story goes — one day 
A visit paid to Horseneck Hill, the locus to survey. 
He turned upon his heel and said, "For all that he espied, 
He didn't see that Putnam's leap was such a daring 
ride." 

A Yankee heard the cool remark, and with a Yankee's 

wont. 
To always have a ready word to answer an affront, 
Inquired: "When Gin'ral Putnam rid deown that ere 

holler, 
Of all your fifteen hundred men, why didn't some one 

foUer?" 

The Oration. 

Hon. Gideon H. Hollister of Litchfield. 

On the Life and Character of General Putnam. 

Benediction. 

The great crowd again filled the streets, and regardless 
of the fast falling snow, the procession carried out to the 
minutest detail the line of march, and in due course arrived 
at the Lenox House, comer of Greenwich and Putnam 
Avenues, where a collation was served to the officers and 
invited guests, over which the President of the Day, A. 
Foster Higgins, presided. 



268 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Toasts. 

"The Day we Celebrate." 
General Joseph R. Hawley. 

"The State of Connecticut." 
Hon. Marshall Jewell. 

" Greenwich in the Revolution." 
Solomon Mead. 

"New England." 
Luther P. Hubbard. 

"Old Put." 
William H. Putnam. 

"The Clergy." 
Rev. Charles R. Treat. 

"The 22nd of February." 
Rev. George Taylor. 

"The Legislature." 
Colonel Vincent Colyer. 

"Oldtime Foes, Longtime Friends." 
Jedediah P. Merritt. 

"To Our Guests." 
Professor J. H. Van Amringe. 

"The Press." 
Rev. Matthew Hale Smith. 

Letters of regret were read from President Hayes, Vice- 
President Wheeler, Governor Andrews, General James A. 
Garfield, and others. 

At a special town meeting held on the ninth day of 
August, 1882, the selectmen were authorized "to erect in the 
rear of the town building a suitable brick building for the 



Town Docks 269 

purpose of a lock-up at an expense not exceeding $1000.00, 
and that the work be commenced without delay." 

In 1884, the inhabitants of the town were much exercised 
over the burning of a number of bams belonging to Alexander 
Mead, the ham-stringing of his cattle, and other depreda- 
tions, and at a special meeting held on the second day of 
February, 1884, the sum of $2000.00 was appropriated and 
offered as a reward for the apprehension and conviction of the 
party, or parties, setting fire to the bam of Alexander Mead 
on the night of the eleventh of January, 1884, and a secret 
committee was appointed to investigate the fire, who placed 
the matter in the charge of Pinkerton's Detective Agency. 

At the annual town meeting held on the fourth day of 
October, 1886, it was: 

Resolved, that the selectmen be and hereby are author- 
ized and empowered to construct a dock, or wharf, opposite 
the Steamboat Road at Rocky Neck Point, and that the sum 
of $2500.00 be and hereby is appropriated for the same. 

At the annual town meeting held on the third day of 
October, 1892, it was: 

Resolved, that an appropriation of $6,000.00 be and 
the same is hereby made for the completion of the public 
dock on the Steamboat Road. 

At the annual town meeting held on the second day of 
October, 1905, it was: 

Resolved, that the selectmen are hereby authorized and 
instructed to erect a pavilion on the town dock at Rocky 
Neck, and that the sum of $2000.00 be and the same hereby 
is appropriated for the erection of said pavilion. 

At a special town meeting held on the ninth day of May, 
1903, it was: 

Resolved, that the selectmen be and they are hereby 
authorized to construct a dock at Byram Shore extending 
one hundred feet in length from highwater mark by fifty 



270 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

feet in width according to the map, or plan, submitted to 
this meeting, at an expense to the town not exceeding 
$1,000.00. 

Spanish-American War, 1898. 

On the night of February 15, 1898, the United States 
Battleship Maine, while lying peacefully at anchor in the 
harbor of Havana, Cuba, was destroyed by an explosion. 
The following morning the entire country was aroused by the 
startling message from Captain Sigsbee, ''Maine blown up, 
suspend judgment." The officials at Washington took 
immediate action, a Court of Inquiry was appointed and 
sent to Havana to ascertain, if possible, the cause. The 
country waited in suspense the report of that Court, which 
on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1898, was delivered to the 
President, on the twenty-eighth of March transmitted to 
Congress, and "in the opinion of the Court the Maine was 
destroyed by the explosion of a submarine mine." Repa- 
ration was demanded by the Government, but refused, and 
on the twenty-second day of April, 1898, a proclamation was 
issued by the President declaring war. This was followed on 
the next day by a proclamation calling for 125,000 volun- 
teers. The greatest enthusiasm and patriotism were shown 
throughout the entire length and breadth of the land. Many 
residents of the town volunteered, and enlisted in the pro- 
visional regiments, which were organized for the purpose of 
going to the front, but the quota of each State was so small 
that only a small proportion of those eager to go were 
mustered into the United States service. The campaign was 
short and decisive. The protocol signed on the twelfth day 
of August, 1898, ended hostilities, and the treaty of peace 
was signed, at Paris, on the tenth day of December, 1898. 

3RD Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

The 3rd Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, was 
mustered into the United States service at Camp Niantic on 



Spanish-American War 271 

the twenty-second day of June, 1898. The first detail left 
the camp on the tenth day of September, 1898, via rail, for 
Camp Mead, Middletown, Pennsylvania. The regiment 
remained there until the tenth day of November, 1898, when 
it left for Camp Marion, Summerville, South Carolina. It 
remained there until the twentieth day of January, 1899, 
when it left for Camp Onward, Savannah, Georgia, where 
it was mustered out of service on the twentieth day of 
March, 1899. 

Company K. 
Smith, Frederick G. C, 2nd Lieutenant. 

Corporals. 

Boswell, William S., Gisbome, Frank R. 

Raymond, Paul A. 

Privates. 

Burnett, Harry, Dolan, Patrick, 

Crawford, Henry P., Mead, Seaman M., 

Talbot, Frederick. 

Mead, Harry A., enlisted in this regiment as a musician 
and was mustered into the United States service at Camp 
Niantic. He accompanied the regiment to Camp Mead and 
was mustered out of the service in the fall. He then re- 
enlisted in the 42nd United States Volunteer Infantry, as a 
musician, and was mustered into the United States service 
at Fort Niagara in December, 1898. The regiment was 
ordered to San Francisco, and from thence to the Philippine 
Islands, Here he remained for eighteen months and saw 
considerable fighting. 

7 1ST Regiment New York National Guards. 

The 71st Regiment, New York National Guards, left 
its armory in the City of New York on the second day of 
May, 1898, for Camp Black on Long Island, and was mus- 
tered into the United States service on the tenth day of May 



272 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

at that place. The regiment left camp on the twelfth day of 
May, 1898, for Cuba, via steamer, but owing to the scare 
occasioned by the reported approach of the Spanish fleet 
the order was countermanded, and it was sent to Florida by 
rail on the fourteenth day of May. The regiment camped at 
Lakeland and Tampa Heights, Florida, until the seventh of 
June, when it was ordered to Port Tampa ; took the transport 
Vigilancia and sailed on the fourteenth of June for Cuba. 
It landed on the twenty-third of June at Siboney and on the 
following day was ordered to the front. The regiment 
remained in Cuba until the second week in August, 1898, 
when it took transports for Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point 
on the eastern end of Long Island, where it remained until 
the twenty-ninth of August, 1898. It was then transported 
by rail to New York and granted a furlough for sixty days. 
It was mustered out of service on the fifteenth day of 
November, 1898, at its armory. 

Principal Engagements. 

Battle of Las Guasimas, June 24. 
Battle of San Juan, July 1,2, and 3. 
Siege of Santiago, July 10 to 17. 

Privates. 

Company A. 

Conover, James S., promoted to corporal. 

Company I. 

Kalb, George M. 

During the year 1898, the selectmen closed that part of 
the old Post Road at the top of Put's Hill, which made a 
half circle to the north and east around the present Putnam 
Hill Park, ^ and which was used until the cut was made 
through the rocks as the Post Road between New York and 
Boston. The following is on the minutes of the annual town 

' See also Borough of Greenwich. 



Putnam Monument 273 

meeting for that year, "action of the selectmen in closing 
the highway near the top of Put's Hill approved." 

Unveiling of the Putnam Monument. 

In the year 1900, a monument was erected under the 
auspices of Putnam Hill Chapter, D. A. R., on the brow of 
the hill, in commemoration of General Putnam's exhibition 
of rough riding at Horseneck on the twenty-sixth day of 
February, 1779. It is on the spot where General Putnam 
left the main road and took a short cut down the hillside 
to the road below in order to escape capture from a party 
of tones and cowboys. This monument was unveiled on 
the 1 6th day of June, 1900, and has thereon the following 
inscription. 

This marks the spot 

Where on February 26, 1779, 

General Israel Putnam, 

Cut off from his soldiers and 

Pursued by British Cavalry, 

Galloped down this rocky steep 

And escaped, daring to lead where not 

One of many hundred foes dared to follow. 

Among the distinguished guests present on this mem- 
orable occasion were : 

Nelson A, Miles, Lieutenant-General U. S. A. 

Hon. George Lounsbury, Governor of the State of Con- 
necticut, and staff. 

Surgeon-General J. Francis Calliff. 

Quartermaster-General G. B. Newton. 

Paymaster-General J. W. Atwood. 

Judge Advocate-General George B. Col well. 

Assistant Adjutant-General E. F. Landis. 

Colonels Rollin S. Woodruff, John W. Low, J. M. UUman, 
and Henry J. Steiner, Aides-de-Camp. 

General 0.0. Howard. 

Colonel Albert A. Pope of Boston. 

Compte de Sahune de Lafayette. 
18 



274 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Mrs. Washington A. Roebling, Vice-President General of 

the National D. A. R. 
Mrs. Donald McLean, Regent, New York City. 

The view from the site of this monument over the rolling 
country across which General Putnam rode on his way to Stam- 
ford, after he left the tories on the edge of the bluff gazing after 
him in stupid wonder, is most picturesque and interesting. 

Since the year 1901 there has been annually appropriated by 
the town the sum of fifty dollars for the maintenance of this park . 

At the annual town meeting held on the third day of 
October, 1888, it was: 

Resolved, that the sum of fifteen cents on each one 
hundred dollars of the grand list of the town last completed 
be and the same is hereby appropriated for the erection of a 
suitable monument to the memory of all soldiers and seamen, 
who were residents of and belonging to said town at the time 
of their enlistment and died in the military, or naval, service 
of the United States in the late war, and that Prof. William 
G. Peck, J, Albert Lockwood and Benjamin Wright, be and 
are hereby appointed a committee to decide upon a site for 
such a monument and to direct the expenditure of such 
appropriation. 

The committee selected the site on which the monument 
now stands, and at a special town meeting held on the 
twenty- third day of February, 1889, it was: 

Resolved, that the piece of land southerly and easterly 
of the Second Congregational Church at the junction of 
Putnam and Maple Avenues be and the same is hereby 
appropriated and granted as a place for the erection of a 
soldiers' monument and the committee appointed to select a 
site for a soldiers' monument are authorized and empowered 
to make use of said land for the location of such a monument. 

Unveiling of the Monument Erected to the Memory 

OF the Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War. 

October 22, 1890. 

It was an ideal day in Indian summer, bright, cheerful 
and invigorating, and such a crowd of people to enjoy the 




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Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 275 

clear air and delightful views had never before gathered 
within the borders of the town. The buildings and resi- 
dences were handsomely decorated for the occasion. 

Early in the morning, men were to be seen about the 
village and at the depot, wearing yellow badges; these were 
members of the reception committee. The invited guests, as 
soon as they arrived, were taken in charge by members of 
this committee and escorted to carriages. Between eleven 
and twelve o'clock an express train with the Governor of the 
State of Connecticut and staff, United States Senators 
General Joseph R. Hawley and Orville H. Piatt, judges of 
the courts, and others, arrived, and during the interval, 
while the procession was being formed, the Governor and 
staff were taken to the residence of George P. Sheldon, where 
a committee of ladies entertained them, and a repast was 
served, while Senator Hawley and other distinguished guests 
were entertained by Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt at his 
residence. 

The procession was formed on Greenwich Avenue, right 
resting on Arch Street, and at 12.30 noon moved forward in 
the following order. 

1st Division. 

Grand Marshal, Edwin H. Johnson. 
Aids, Walter Peck, E. W. Little, Dr. Beverly E. Mead, 

Seaman Mead, Henry H. Adams and Erwin Edwards. 

Distinguished Invited Guests in Carriages accompanied by 

Members of the Reception Committee. 

Prominent Town and Borough Officials in Carriages. 

Members of the Press in Carriages. 

Citizens on Horseback. 

2nd Division. 

W. A. Robbins, Chief of Staff. 

Frederick S. Hastings, Aid. 

Wheeler and Wilson Band of Bridgeport. 

Lombard Post, G. A. R., of Greenwich, with some Members 

of the Port Chester Post, William H. Bailey, Commander. 



276 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Buckingham Post Drum Corps. 
Buckingham Post, G. A. R., of Norwalk, A. A. Hauschildt, 

Commander. 

Douglass Fowler Post, G. A. R., of South Norwalk, Franklin 

Arnold, Commander. 

Elias Howe, Jr., Band. 

Elias Howe, Jr., Post, G. A. R., of Bridgeport, James H. 

Bumes, Commander. 

Stamford Brass Band. 

Hobbie Post, G. A. R., of Stamford, Elias E. Palmer, 

Commander. 
E. D. Pickett Post, G. A. R., of Ridgefield, Seth Gilbert, 

Commander. 

Samuel P. Ferris Post, G. A. R., of New Canaan, John 

Barber, Commander. 

3rd Division. 

John H. Gourlie, Jr., Marshal. 

Halsey W. Kent, Aid. 

Mertz Band of Port Chester. 

Empire Lodge, I. O. O. F., W. G. Ferris, Commanding. 

Port Chester Comet Band. 

Knights of Pythias, Charles T. Hotaling and Henry 01m- 

stead, Commanding. 

St. John's Band of Stamford. 

Oronoco Council, Knights of Columbus, John H. Arnold, 

Commanding. 

Greenwich Drum Corps. 

Amogerone Hook, Ladder and Hose Company, Fred D, 

Knapp, Chief Engineer, Commanding. 

Citizens on Horseback. 

School Children from Mianus and Cos Cob District Schools 

with their Teachers. 

Miss Jennie Smith, President of the Woman's Relief 

Corps, and Staff in carriages. 

Citizens in Carriages. 

Citizens on Foot. 

The line of march was as follows: Through Greenwich 
Avenue to Putnam Avenue ; through Putnam Avenue to the 
Field Point Road; countermarch by the right through Put- 
nam Avenue to Put's Hill; around Put's Hill by the left to 



Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 277 

Putnam Avenue; countermarch through Putnam Avenue to 
Tracy Street; through Tracy Street and Mead Avenue 
to North Street ; through North Street and Maple Avenue to 
the monument, which is at the comer of Putnam and Maple 
Avenues. The invited guests and other distinguished 
individuals were seated on the platform, and the 2nd and 3rd 
Divisions formed en masse on the west and southwest of the 
monument. Among the distinguished guests were: 

Hon. Morgan G. Buckley, Governor of the State of 

Connecticut. 
Hon. Samuel E. Merwin, Lieutenant-Governor of the 

State of Connecticut. 
General Henry Hungerford, of the Governor's Staff. 
General Embler. 

Colonel George M. White, Assistant Adjutant-General. 
Hon. Charles B. Andrews, Chief Justice of the Supreme 

Court of Errors. 
Hon. Elisha Carpenter, Edward W. Seymour, and David 

Torrance, Assistant Judges of the Supreme Court of 

Errors. 
General Joseph R. Hawley, United States Senator. 
Orville H. Piatt, United States Senator. 
Judges Lucius P. Deming of New Haven and Silas A. 

Robinson of Middletown. 
Hon. John T. Waite of Norwich, Member of Congress. 
Hon. Frederick Miles, Congressman, 4th Congressional 

District. 
Colonel Dewey. 
Lieutenant Lyman S. Catlin. 
Hon. Benjamin C. Mead of Ridgefield, Senator of the 

27th (i2th) Senatorial District. 
W. A. Abendroth, Herman Marshall, and John Diehl of 

Port Chester. 
Captain Middleton and Amos M. Lyman. 
Commanders Fenton and Smith, and Chaplain Miller of 

the G. A. R. 
John C. Broach, Commander of the G. A. R., and Staff. 
General E. S. Greely, Colonel WilHam H. Noble, and 

Colonel Huss. 
Lieutenant W. E. Morgan, Captain Blackman, and 

Captain Peck. 



278 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Rev. Benjamin M. Wright, Pastor of the Congregational 
Church at Kent. 

The assemblage was called to order by Lieutenant Ben- 
jamin Wright, Company C, loth Regiment, Connecticut 
Volunteer Infantry, Chairman, who announced the Presi- 
dent and Officers of the Day, after which the following order 
of exercises was followed : 

President of the Day. 
Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt, Presided. 

Prayer. 
Rev. Washington Choate, Pastor of the Second Congrega- 
tional Church. 

Address. 
Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt. 

Unveiling of the Monument. 

Mrs. Louisa Ritch, widow of Daniel M. Mead, Major, 

loth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. 

Presentation of the Monument to the Town of Greenwich 
Lieutenant Benjamin Wright, Chairman. 

Acceptance of the Monument on behalf of the Town of 

Greenwich. 

J. Albert Lockwood, Sergeant, 28th Regiment, Connecticut 

Volunteer Infantry, ist Selectman. 

Star Spangled Banner. 
Sung by the Choral Union. 

Address. 
General Joseph R. Hawley, United States Senator. 

America. 
Sung by the Choral Union. 

Benediction. 
Rev. J. T. Wills, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. 




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Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 279 

The procession was again soon on the move, the invited 
guests were taken to the Lenox House, comer of Greenwich 
and Putnam Avenues, where a collation was served, presided 
over by Colonel Hoyt, President of the Day. 

Toasts. 

"The State of Connecticut." 
Lieutenant-Governor Samuel E. Merwin. 

''The United States." 
Orville H. Piatt, United States Senator. 

"The Women of Greenwich during the Civil War." 

Rev. Benjamin M. Wright, Pastor of the Congregational 

Church at Kent. 

"Our Guests." 
Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt. 

The members of the Grand Army and other veterans of 
the Civil War were marched to Ray's Hall, corner of Green- 
wich Avenue and Lewis Street, where another collation was 
served, presided over by Lieutenant Wright, Chairman. 

The monimient was designed by Lazzari and Barton of 
Woodlawn, New York, erected October 4, 1890, unveiled 
October 22, 1890, and paid for by the Town of Greenwich at 
a cost of about $6000.00. 

It occupies the site of the old town building at the comer 
of Putnam and Maple Avenues, the headquarters of Green- 
wich patriotism during the Civil War, and where most of the 
enlistments for the war were made. It is also near the place 
where General Putnam drew up his forces to repulse the 
British during the Revolutionary War at the time of Tryon's 
raid, and finding himself in danger of being overpowered by 
a superior force ordered a hasty retreat, mounted his horse, 
and started for Stamford for re -enforcements chased by the 
enemy. 



28o Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

There are no records in the Town Clerk's office of the 
proceedings of the town officials during the time Greenwich 
was under the jurisdiction of the Dutch at New Amsterdam. 
Such records as there are, however, are to be found in 
O'Callaghan's Documentary History of New York, to which 
the author has referred in the compilation of this work. 
Greenwich submitted to the jurisdiction of the New Haven 
Colony on the sixth day of October, 1656. The first town 
meeting, however, of which there is any record was not held 
until the fifth day of February, 1665,' as the town was not 
incorporated until the eleventh day of May, 1665. 

The town meetings were first held at the houses of the 
respective proprietors at irregular intervals, later at the 
schoolhouse; next at the house of the minister, or school- 
house; and after the meeting house was built they were fre- 
quently held in it. After 1705, the annual town meetings 
were held regularly in December, later this was changed to 
October, at which time the annual meeting is now held. 

The annual town meeting held on the fifteenth day of 
December, 1760, authorized the building of a town house 
and left it to the authority of the selectmen as to its size and 
location. It was located on Putnam Avenue near the Sec- 
ond Congregational Church and during the Revolutionary 
War was used as a guard house for the Greenwich Artillery 
Company. It was burned on the twenty-sixth day of Feb- 
ruary, 1779, at the time of Tryon's raid, and not sold 
during the Revolutionary War to Colonel John Mead, as 
heretofore supposed to have been. 

The meetings were then held in the meeting house, 
schoolhouse, or different houses of the inhabitants until the 
annual meeting of 1836, which was held at the new town 
building then being constructed on the site of the present 
Soldiers' Monument near the Second Congregational Church. 
In 1874 the town had outgrown this building, and the meet- 
ings were held in Armory Hall, southwest comer of Green- 

• Old style, which according to new style would be 1666. 



Town Halls 281 

wich Avenue and Elm Street, until 1878, when the first 
meeting was held in Ray's Hall, which was used until the 
completion of the present Town Hall in 1905. The old 
town building, on the site of the Soldiers' Monument, after it 
was abandoned for town meetings in 1873 was converted 
into a jail and used as such for only a short while. It was 
destroyed by fire on the fifteenth day of October, 1874. 

At the annual meeting held in 1867, the building of a new 
town hall was discussed and a committee appointed to select 
a site. The report of this committee in 1868, that it had 
purchased a plot of ground on the northeast corner of 
Mechanic Street (now Sherwood Place) and Main Street 
(now Putnam Avenue) for a new town hall was confirmed. 
In 1870 plans and specifications were submitted and not 
approved, authorizing the building of a new town hall on 
that site at a cost not to exceed $60,000, to be completed 
on or before the first day of April, 1871, and the committee 
was discharged. This is the site to which the old Second 
Congregational Church was moved prior to the completion 
of the present building. The premises were authorized to be 
sold at the annual town meeting held on the second day of 
October, 1882. 

The purchase of the Greenwich Avenue property was 
authorized at a special town meeting held on the fifteenth 
day of May, 1875, by the adoption of the following resolu- 
tion : 

Resolved that the Town of Greenwich hereby accepts 
and agrees to the written proposition of Aaron P. Ferris, 
dated May i, 1875, and presented to this meeting to-day, and 
that said town does hereby purchase the property mentioned 
in said proposition on the terms therein named, and that the 
selectmen be and hereby are fully authorized and directed to 
accept a deed for said property on behalf of the town and 
to execute and deliver to Aaron P. Ferris such notes as may 
be necessary, or proper, to carry said agreement into effect. 

The time for the payment of the balance of $10,000, 
mentioned in said proposition being hereby fixed at ten 
years from June i, 1875, or sooner at the option of the town, 



282 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

and all lawful action of the selectmen in the premises being 
hereby ratified and confirmed. 

The premises are located on the easterly side of Green- 
wich Avenue about half way between Lewis Street and 
Putnam Avenue, and consist of a lot fifty feet in front by 
about two hundred and fifty-four feet deep, with the build- 
ings, for which the town agreed to pay $11,500, It was 
used for the town offices. This property is now owned by 
the town and leased to the present occupant. 

The dedication of the present Town Hall took place at a 
special town meeting held on the nineteenth day of October, 
1905, in the auditorium of the building, which was profusely 
decorated with American flags and the platform was banked 
with palms and chrysanthemums. Mr. Bruce occupied a 
central seat on the platform, together with the selectmen and 
other prominent town, borough, and court officials, and his 
sister sat in the balcony, which had been reserved for ladies. 
The meeting was called to order by the moderator, 
George W. Brush. 

Popular airs by St. John's Band of Stamford. 
Acting Borough Warden, John Dayton, read a warrantee 
deed from Robert M. Bruce, conveying to the Town of 
Greenwich the tract of land situate on the northeasterly 
comer of Greenwich Avenue and Havemeyer Place with the 
new Town Hall thereon. 

"Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue," by the 
Band. 

The deed was then delivered by Moderator Brush to the 
first selectman, James G. Willson, who accepted the same 
on behalf of the town in a few well-chosen words. 
Address by Hon. R. Jay Walsh. 
"The Star Spangled Banner," by the Band. 
The unanimous adoption of the following resolutions 
by a standing vote : 

Resolved, that by a rising vote of those present, the 
Town of Greenwich gratefully accepts the gift of a town 



The Present Town Hall 283 

building and accompanying land made this day by our 
townsman, Mr. Robert M. Bruce, and his sister. Miss Sarah 
E, Bruce. 

Resolved, that we extend to the generous donors a vote 
of thanks for their munificent gift, which will stand as a 
lasting testimonial to their unselfish interest in our town and 
its people. 

Resolved, that the selectmen be authorized and directed 
to present to the donors a suitable engrossed and framed 
copy of these resolutions. 

After a few appropriate remarks by Moderator Brush 
the meeting adjourned. 

At an adjourned annual town meeting held on the twenty- 
seventh day of February, 1909, the following resolution 
was offered and adopted : 

We, voters of the Town of Greenwich, in town meeting 
assembled, express our sincere regret at the recent death of 
our fellow townsman, Robert M. Bruce. 

We mourn him as one of the foremost citizens of our 
town, always helpful in any movement for the material 
advancement of the community; and as that "noblest work 
of God," "an honest man." 

The building in which we are assembled is a monument 
to his public spirit and a proof of his love for the town of his 
adoption. As in his life he preferred to make his many 
benefactions, both to the town and to the needy therein, 
modestly and without display, we can best reverence his 
memory by cherishing a quiet but graceful remembrance of 
them and of him. 

Resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to 
Miss Sarah E. Bruce, sister, and the family of the deceased; 
and that a copy of the same be entered upon the records of 
this meeting. 

The late Robert M. Bruce during his lifetime deeded 
to the Town of Greenwich certain tracts of land with the 
buildings thereon, situate in said town, to be used for the 
purpose of a public park, and for other purposes; and at an 
adjourned annual town meeting held on the sixteenth day 
of October, 1909, it was: 



284 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Resolved that the deed executed to the town by the 
late Robert M. Bruce of certain property, consisting of about 
one hundred acres with the buildings thereon, for the pur- 
poses of a public park, said park to be known as "The 
Bruce Memorial Park," be accepted. 

Resolved that the deed of gift from the late Robert M. 
Bruce, just read, be accepted and this meeting manifest its 
appreciation of the magnificent gift by a rising vote. 

In 1906, Putnam Hill Chapter, Daughters of the Amer- 
ican Revolution, a membership association, having acquired 
title to the old Knapp Tavern, concluded to celebrate the 
occasion by formally dedicating it as "Putnam Cottage," 
and selected the fourteenth day of June for their festivities. 

It was a delightful June day with its soft balmy air, and 
the trees, with their luxuriant growth of fresh green leaves, 
together with the profusely decorated buildings, presented a 
sight which was truly enchanting. The exercises were held 
on the cottage lawn, and no more charming day for such an 
observance could have been had. 

Early in the afternoon the invited guests and military 
companies arrived, and the procession was formed on Green- 
wich Avenue, right resting on Arch Street. At two o'clock 
it moved forward in the following order: 

Marshal and Aides. 

Mertz Reed Band. 

Company L of Greenwich. 

Putnam Phalanx of Hartford. 

Wheeler and Wilson Band. 

Governor's Foot Guard of New Haven. 

Distinguished Guests in Carriages. 

2nd Company, Governor's Foot Guard of New Haven. 

Lafayette Post, G. A. R., of New York. 

Minor Post, G. A. R., of Stamford. 

Lombard Post, G. A. R., of Greenwich. 

Minute Men of New York and Drum Corps. 

Sons of the American Revolution. 
Order of Founders and Patriots of America. 
New England Society, and the American Scenic and His- 
toric Preservation Society. 



Dedication of Putnam Cottage 285 

The line of march was through Greenwich and Putnam 
Avenues direct to the cottage. Opposite, on the grounds of 
the Episcopal Church, a collation was served and arms 
stacked, after which the following order of exercises was 
followed : 

Chairman of the Day. 

Rev. M. George Thompson, Rector of Christ Episcopal 

Church, and Chaplain of Putnam Hill Chapter, 

D. A. R., presided. 

Music by Mertz Reed Band. 

"America." 
Sung by a Chorus of fifty school children. 

Invocation. 
Rev. Joseph H. Selden, D. D., Pastor of the Second Congre- 
gational Church. 

Address of Welcome. 
Rev. M. George Thompson, Chairman of the Day. 

Address. 
Hon. Henry Roberts, Governor of the State of Connecticut. 

Address. 
Sara T. Kinney, State Regent of the D. A. R. 

"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." 
Sung by the Chorus. 

Address. 
General James Grant Wilson. 

Address. 
General Stewart L. Woodford, ex-Minister to Spain. 

"The Battle Hymn of the RepubHc." 
Sung by Dr. Carl E. Martin. 



286 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Address. 

Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D., formerly acting Pastor of the 

Second Congregational Church. 

Address. 
Darius Cobb of Boston, Artist and Historian. 

Address. 
Rear-Admiral J. B. Coghlan, Commandant of the Brooklyn 

Navy Yard. 

Address. 

Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake, President of the Legislative 

League of New York. 

Address. 

Brigadier-General Henry S. Terrell, a member of the Order 

of Founders and Patriots of America. 

Address. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry D. Tyler, of the Minute Men. 

Address. 
General James R. O'Beime. 

Flag Raising. 
Master Henry Adams Ashford. 

"Star Spangled Banner." 
By the Band. 

Benediction. 
Rev. DeWitt Pelton, D. D., Chaplain of the Minute Men. 

Putnam Hill Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo- 
lution, was formally organized on the twenty-eighth day of 
December, 1897, with a membership of twenty-four. In 
1 90 1 a movement was started for the purchase of the old 
Knapp Tavern, now known as Putnam Cottage, as a home 
for the chapter and a historical museum, and during the 



Putnam Hill Chapter, D. A. R. 287 

latter part of that year a subscription list was circulated and 
subscriptions obtained for the purpose of purchasing the 
cottage for the chapter. Early in 1902, a sufficient amount 
having been raised and paid in, chiefly through the efforts of 
Colonel Henry H. Adams, the property was purchased with 
the money so subscribed for the sum of I7 125, and the 
record title taken in the name of Henry H. Adams. Later in 
the year a corporation was organized by the name of the 
"Israel Putnam House Association" to which the record 
title was conveyed for a nominal consideration, November, 
1902. 

In 1908, the question arose as to whether the chapter 
or the corporation was the legal owner of the property, and 
at a joint meeting of the two held in the latter part of Nov- 
ember, 1908, the officers of the corporation offered to transfer 
the management and control of the Israel Putnam House 
Association to the chapter on its incorporation. In pur- 
suance therewith, the chapter was incorporated during the 
month of December, 1908, and on the tenth day of May, 
1909, an agreement was entered into between the Israel 
Putnam House Association, and Putnam Hill Chapter, 
Daughters of the American Revolution, whereby it was 
declared "that said premises known as Putnam Cottage, 
more particularly described in a deed made by Henry H. 
Adams to the Israel Putnam House Association and recorded 
on the 24th day of November, 1902, Liber 92 of Conveyances, 
page 255, of the Greenwich Land Records, are held in trust 
by the said Israel Putnam House Association for the use and 
benefit of the Putnam Hill Chapter, Daughters of the Amer- 
ican Revolution, incorporated, so long as said latter corpo- 
ration shall exist, and upon its dissolution they do hereby 
certify that said property shall thereafter be held in trust by 
the said Israel Putnam House Association for the use and 
benefit of the citizens of the Town of Greenwich in accord- 
ance with the objects and purposes as set forth in the 
Certificate of Incorporation of said Israel Putnam House 
Association. " 



288 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

The three islands lying in Long Island Sound, nearly 
opposite Greenwich Harbor, now familiarly known as Cap- 
tain's Island, Little Captain's Island and the Clump, 
undoubtedly derived their names from Captain Daniel 
Patrick, who was the first military commandant of the Town 
of Greenwich and one of the early settlers. 

Justus Bush, son of Justus Bush of Rye, New York, 
settled in Horseneck, now the Borough of Greenwich, about 
1 715, and some time after bought these islands from the 
estate of Dr. Nathaniel Worden, late of Greenwich, deceased. 
He held this property at the time of his death on the twenty- 
third day of November, 1760, and on the distribution of his 
estate the islands were allotted to his son, Justus Bush, and 
some of his other children. 

The Province of New York, according to its interpre- 
tation of the boundary line agreement between it and the 
Colony of Connecticut, claimed a superior title to the 
islands,^ and on the third day of September, 1761, John 
Anderson of Oyster Bay, Long Island, presented a petition 
to the government of the Province of New York, praying 
that letters patent might be issued to him for three small 
islands in the East River, near Byram River, the largest of 
which was known as Great Captain's Island, and on the 
twenty-sixth day of January, 1763, letters patent were 
issued to him for these islands. On the fourteenth day of 
September, 1764, Justus Bush, and other inhabitants of 
Greenwich, sued John Anderson for trespass in cutting tim- 
ber on Great Captain's Island. The suit was determined by 
the Superior Court of Fairfield County on the nineteenth 
day of February, 1765, and the jury found a verdict of 205 
damages and costs for the plaintiffs, as jurisdiction over the 
islands was claimed by the Colony of Connecticut. 

Captain's Island, according to an act of the Legislature 
of the State of New York passed on the seventh day of 
March, 1788, was included in the bounds of the Town of 
Rye. 

' Baird's History of the Town of Rye. 



Captain's Island 289 

In 1829, the United States Government obtained from 
Connecticut a cession of jurisdiction over a part of Great 
Captain's Island for the site of a lighthouse, and a few years 
afterwards a similar cession was obtained from New York, 
and this part of the island, about three acres, now belongs to 
the United States Government. 

There have been several commissions appointed to settle 
the dispute as to whether the islands were within the juris- 
diction of Connecticut, or New York, and the last one 
decided that they were within the jurisdiction of Connect- 
icut, which was ratified at the session of the General Assem- 
bly held in January, 1880. The Town of Greenwich now 
levies the assessments and collects the taxes, which for 1908 
were levied against the estate of Gilbert Lyon as to Captain's 
Island; and James F. Walsh, wholly, or partly, as to Little 
Captain's Island. 

The militia generally has been considered in Chapter IX. 
As regards the military forces in Greenwich, a company was 
organized soon after the town was first settled, and Captain 
Daniel Patrick was the first military commander. After 
his death in 1644, he was succeeded by William Hallett, who 
was banished in 1648, for the commission of the act of 
adultery with Mrs. Elizabeth Peaks. The next leading 
citizen was Richard Crab, who seems to have removed from 
Greenwich about 1660. The following were his successors: 

1669 to 1688, Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood. 
1689 to 1695, Lieutenant John Bowers. 
1696 to 1725, Lieutenant James Ferris. 
1726 to 1735, Captain Caleb Knapp. 
1736 to 1739, Captain James Reynolds. 

At the October Session of the General Assembly, 1739, 
the military companies in the Towns of Norwalk, Stamford, 
Greenwich, and Ridgefield were organized into one entire 
regiment, known as the 9th Regiment. The regimental 
officers, who were commissioned at the same time, were: 
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290 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Jonathan Hoit, Colonel ; Thomas Fitch, Lieutenant -Colonel ; 
James Lockwood, Major. 

During the various colonial wars which followed the 
creation of this regiment, the soldiers for those wars were 
detailed from the militia. In King George's War, 1744- 
1748, the Town of Greenwich furnished as its quota twenty- 
five officers and men. 

During the French and Indian War, 1 754-1 764, a com- 
pany of volunteers was organized in the Town of Greenwich, 
which consisted of men from the 9th Regiment, who lived in 
the town. This company was commanded by Captain 
Thomas Hobby and participated in the campaigns of 1758, 
1759, 1760, 1 761 and 1762. 

Colonel John Mead, later General John Mead, com- 
manded the 9th Regiment all through the Revolutionary 
War, and it rendered much service. After the Revolution- 
ary War the following commanding officers were residents of 
the Town of Greenwich : ^ 

1786 to 1793, Jabez Fitch, Lieutenant- Colonel. 
1794 to 1800, Ebenezer Mead, Lieutenant-Colonel, pro- 
moted to Brigadier-General in 1801. 
1 816 to 1820, Ebenezer Mead, Jr., Colonel. 
1828 to — , Drake Mead, Colonel. 
1831 to 1833, Thomas A. Mead, Lieutenant-Colonel. 

The May Session of the General Assembly, ^ 1847, passed 
an act consolidating the state into eight regimental districts, 
one for each coimty, thereby disbanding the old 9th Regi- 
ment, which had been in existence since 1739, continuously, 
the 8th Regiment taking its place. Amos M. Brush was 
lieutenant-colonel of the 8th Regiment in 1849. In 1854 
another act was passed, which superseded the act of 1847. 

The May Session of the General Assembly, 1861, passed 
an act further consolidating the militia into not less than 

' See Connecticut Registers. 

' See article on " Connecticut Soldiery" in Connecticut Quarterly for 1897, 
P- 254- 



Militia 291 

forty, or more than sixty-four companies. All the old com- 
panies were ordered to be disbanded on the first day of 
August, 1 861, and new ones were organized, but none in 
the Town of Greenwich. The last military company in the 
town was disbanded in 1856. The Special Session of the 
General Assembly held December, 1862, passed an act 
increasing the military companies to not more than ninety. 
In 1865, the General Assembly authorized the active militia 
to be hereafter called "The Connecticut National Guard," 
and during this year a new company was organized in the 
Town of Greenwich, which was disbanded in 1881. 

In 1 87 1, the active militia were consolidated into four 
regiments of infantry and two sections of artillery, one regi- 
ment for each Congressional District. The company in 
Greenwich then became part of the 4th Regiment, which 
Heusted W. R. Hoyt was colonel of from 1872 to 1877. 

Company L, 3rd Regiment Infantry, Connecticut 
National Guards, the present company, was organized early 
in 1904, and mustered into the military service of the State 
of Connecticut on the fifteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth 
days of February, 1904, respectively. The company had its 
first camp experience in the manoeuvres at Manassas, Vir- 
ginia, in the early fall of 1904, and since at: 

Niantic, 1905 and 1906. 

Fort Wright, Fisher's Island, 1907. 

Fort Mansfield, R. I., 1908. 

Fort Terry, Plumb Island, 1909 and 1910. 

The commissioned officers have been: 

F. G. C. Smith, Captain, 1904, retired May 15, 1907. 

Seaman M. Mead, Captain, June 5, 1907, retired Dec. 7, 
1908; June 5, 1910, appointed to the Colonel's Staff, as 1st 
Lieutenant of Coast Artillery Corps; March 10, 191 1, 
appointed Captain of the 7th Company at Stamford, Coast 
Artillery Corps. 

John J. Haff, Captain, Dec. 7, 1908, present commander. 

William S. Boswell, ist Lieutenant, 1904, resigned June 
5. 1905. 



292 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Seaman M. Mead, ist Lieutenant, July 3, 1905, promoted 
to Captain, June 5, 1907. 

A. Stanley Todd, ist Lieutenant, June 5, 1908, resigned 
Apl. 30, 1 910. 

Seaman M. Mead, 2nd Lieutenant, 1904, promoted to ist 
Lieutenant, July 3, 1905, and Captain, June 5, 1907. 

A. Stanley Todd, 2nd Lieutenant, July 2, 1905, promoted 
to 1st Lieutenant, June 5, 1908. 

Benjamin N. Booth, 2nd Lieutenant, Apl. 14, 1910. 

On the fourteenth day of December, 1907, it was changed 
to the 1 2th Company, Coast Artillery Corps. 

There has been appropriated by the General Assembly 
the sum of forty -five thousand dollars for the building of an 
armory in the Town of Greenwich for this company, and the 
site therefor was purchased by the State of Connecticut on 
the fourteenth day of December, 1909. The plans for the 
building were accepted on the third day of February, 1910, 
and on the nineteenth day of July, 19 10, construction began. 
The armory was formally dedicated on the twenty-sixth day 
of April, 191 1. 

The active militia in the State of Connecticut, which is 
called "The Connecticut National Guard, " now consists of a 
Troop of Cavalry; a Battery of Field Artillery; Coast Artil- 
lery Corps, fourteen companies, of which the Greenwich 
Company is the 12th; ist and 2nd Regiments of Infantry; a 
Separate Company of Infantry; and the Naval Militia, four 
divisions. 

The first investigation into the management of the affairs 
of the Town of Greenwich was commenced in the fall of 1890, 
and at an annual town meeting held on the sixth day of 
October, 1890, it was: 

Resolved that John F. Close, Dr. F. M. Holly and 
Augustus I. Mead, all of Greenwich, be and hereby are 
appointed a committee to examine the reports and accounts 
of the town treasurer of Greenwich from 1881 to the pre- 
sent time, and report their doings to the next annual town 
meeting, or to any special town meeting called for that 
purpose. 



Investigation of Town Affairs 293 

In pursuance with the foregoing resolution the committee 
made its report to the annual town meeting held on the fifth 
day of October, 1891. The report is spread in full on the 
minutes and part of the same is as follows: 

To summarize we find that the treasurer's reports show 
he is entitled to credits not heretofore entered amounting to 
$209.60, and that he should strike out from his report the 
credit of $8960.24, which will leave a balance due the town 
of $8750.64 in excess of the amounts already reported. 

The report shows that this $8750.64 belonged to the 
Town Deposit Fund and had been used by the town, which 
the selectmen had given the treasurer their notes therefor. 

Report laid on the table. 

At the same meeting, it was : 

Resolved that Frederick A. Hubbard, Whitman S. Mead 
and John Dayton be and they hereby are appointed as a 
committee to examine the reports and accounts of the town 
treasurer of Greenwich from 1887 to the present date, and 
for such other number of years as may be necessary in order 
to arrive at a definite understanding of the same, with 
authority to employ counsel and an expert accountant, if 
necessary, and report their doings to a special town meeting 
to be called for the purpose of hearing and acting upon the 
same, or to the next annual town meeting. 

In pursuance with the last resolution the committee made 
its report to the annual town meeting held on the third day of 
October, 1892, which is also spread in full on the minutes. 

This report, while it practically confirmed the report laid 
on the table at the last annual town meeting, set forth some 
additional errors in bookkeeping, which were satisfactorily 
explained. The committee, however, "takes the liberty to 
suggest that a radical change should be made in the method 
of keeping the town treasurer's accounts, " and it found that 
the town was indebted to the treasurer in the sum of $208.56, 
and recommended that an order be drawn in his favor for 
that amount, which was done. 



294 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

The second investigation into the management of the 
affairs of the Town of Greenwich was commenced in the fall 
of 1899, and at an annual town meeting held on the second 
day of October, 1899, it was: 

Resolved that the report of the Selectmen, Town Treas- 
urer, and Town Auditor be referred to a committee of five 
to be appointed by the chair with full power to investigate 
and report to a future meeting called for that purpose. 
The chair appointed the following committee, George H. 
Mills, A. A. Marks, L. P. Jones, John Lotz and Daniel 
Maher, which said committee was approved by the meeting. 

As a result of the investigation' A. A. Marks brought an 
action against the tax collector and his sureties for money 
alleged to be due the Town of Greenwich by the tax collector 
for the following years and amounts : 

1893, $19,000.00 1896, 13,000.00 

1894, 20,000.00 1897, 31,000.00 

1895, 25,000.00 1898, 36,000.00 

$64,000.00 $80,000.00 

64,000.00 

Total $144,000.00 

The property of the sureties on the tax collector's bond 
was attached on the ninth day of June, 1900. A demurrer 
to the action was filed and arguments heard thereon in Feb- 
ruary, 190 1. The demurrer was overruled. The court held 
that Mr. Marks had a right to bring the action. The claim 
for $144,000.00 was afterwards settled for about $21,750.00 
net. 

The foregoing committee made its report to a special 
town meeting held on the eighteenth day of July, 1900. 
Luke A. Lockwood read the report, after which the following 
resolution was passed : 

'See Greenwich Graphic, June i6, 1900; Feb. 23, Mch. 23, and Nov. 2, 
1901. 



Investigation of Town Affairs 295 

Whereas the pending report was not made by authority 
of the town, and cannot be accepted by this meeting, and, 

Whereas it appears from a reading of the same that it 
may contain information which may be of value to the 
proper officials of the town, or in connection with the litiga- 
tion now pending, 

?^g Therefore, Resolved, that said report be lodged with the 
town clerk, and by him held for the purposes herein referred 
to, and, 

Resolved, that the committee making said report, 
appointed at the last annual meeting, be and the same is 
hereby discharged. 

The third investigation into the management of the 
affairs of the Town of Greenwich was commenced in the fall 
of 1908, and at an adjourned annual town meeting held on 
the nineteenth day of October, 1908, it was: 

Resolved, that the reports of the Town Treasurer, Treas- 
urer of the Town Deposit Fund, Health Officer, School 
Visitors, Tree Warden, and High School Committee, be 
accepted. 

And it was further : 

Resolved, that the Annual Report of the Selectmen be 
and the same is hereby referred to a committee consisting of 
Edwin H. Baker, Percy D. Adams, Nelson B. Mead, Herbert 
B. Stevens and Frederick A. Hubbard, to examine and report 
thereon to an adjourned meeting to be held on December 5, 
1908, at 3 P.M., and that said committee are authorized to 
examine persons and papers to get desired information, all 
without expense to the Town of Greenwich. 

At an adjourned annual town meeting held on the fifth 
day of December, 1908, it was voted that when this meeting 
adjourn it be to January 23, 1909, at 3 o 'clock p.m. 

Edwin H. Baker read and offered the report of the com- 
mittee appointed to examine and report on the Annual 
Report of the Selectmen, which was printed and distributed. 

The report among other things stated the ''condition of 
affairs worse than anticipated'' \ that the ''revelations in this 



296 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

report point to necessity for a further thorough investigation of 
the town's affairs'' ; that 'Hhis committee does urge, and cannot 
urge too strongly, that the details of this report to follow he 
received with the expectation of further and a more comprehen- 
sive examination into all departments of the town's affairs, and 
with a view to establishing, by appeal to the General Assembly, 
if need be, a better form of government, which may possibly be 
superior to any now existing elsewhere in the Commonwealth.'* 

At the same meeting, it was: 

Resolved that the Report of the Selectmen for the year 
ending September i, 1908, and the report upon the same 
made at this meeting by the committee of five, and the report 
on funding the town debt, also made at this meeting by the 
committee of three, all be referred to a committee of twenty- 
eight, which made the committee (alphabetically arranged) 
as follows: 

Adams, Percy D., Mead, Augustus I., 

Baker, Edwin H., Mead, Nelson B., 

Brush, Edward, Mead, Silas E., 

Chapman, Edwin N., Moore, Charles A., 

Hubbard, Frederick A., Palmer, Frank T., 

Knapp, Nathaniel A., Quinn, Martin J., 
Lockwood, Luke Vincent, Smith, William J., 

McCord, WilHam H., Stevens, Herbert B., 

McCutcheon, James, Truesdale, William H., 

McNall, George G., Walsh, James F., 

Maher, John, Walsh, R. Jay, 

Mallory, Charles, Wessels, William H., 

Marks, George E., Wills, Charles T., 

Marshall, Henry B., Wright, Wilbur S. 

to consider and review the work of the two committees, and 
to take such action as in their judgment may make the same 
effective by inaugurating a better administration of public 
affairs in Greenwich. Said committee to choose its own 
officers and to have power to fill vacancies and to regulate its 
own proceedings, all without expense to the town. 



Investigation of Town Affairs 297 

At an adjourned annual town meeting held on the twenty- 
third day of January, 1909, Edwin H. Baker, chairman of 
the committee of twenty-eight, read the report of the com- 
mittee, which is spread in full on the minutes, and among 
other things it reported that "it was the unanimous opinion 
of your committee that the town government by a board of 
selectmen was ineffective, expensive, unbusinesslike, and a 
damage to the property interests of this community," and 
proposed plans for a new form of government, which were 
signed by twenty-five of the committee of twenty-eight, 
two of whom signed by proxy. 

At the same meeting, it was : 

Resolved that the report of the committee of twenty- 
eight be accepted and that said committee be hereby author- 
ized to prepare a detailed form of government and report the 
same to an adjcumed meeting to be held February 27, 1909, 
at 3 o'clock, P.M., and that said committee prepare, publish 
and distribute to the voters of the town a full statement of 
the form and operation of the proposed government by Feb- 
ruary 15, 1909. 

At an adjourned annual town meeting held on the twenty- 
seventh day of February, 1909, the printed report of a major- 
ity of the committee of twenty-eight was submitted, and on 
motion it was voted : 

That the vote on the adoption of the report of the com- 
mittee of twenty-eight shall be by check list, and that that 
part of the meeting be adjourned to Saturday, March 6, 1909, 
at I o'clock P.M., polls to remain open from i to 6 o'clock 

P.M. 

At an adjourned annual town meeting held on the sixth 
day of March, 1909, pursuant to the foregoing, the voters of 
the Town of Greenwich by a vote of 549 for the adoption 
of the report, and 11 12 against the adoption of the report, 
decided against the plan for the proposed new form of 
government, as submitted by a majority of the committee 
of twenty-eight. 



298 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Some of the promoters for a new form of government 
still kept busy and succeeded in having a call issued for a 
special town meeting to be held on the twenty-fifth day of 
March, 1909. 

The objects for which the meeting was called were: 

1 . To consider and act upon the establishment of a Superin- 

tendent or Commissioner of Highways. 

2. To consider and act upon the establishment of a Commis- 

sioner of Charities. 

3. To consider and act upon the establishment of a Board of 

Estimate and Taxation. 

4. To consider and act upon the election of selectmen 

biennially. 

5. To take such action as may be deemed proper in the 

matter of town bookkeeping. 

6. To consider and act upon the number of assessors here- 

after to be elected. 

7. To limit the highway expenditures during the month of 

September in each year. 

Pursuant to the foregoing notice a special town meeting 
was held on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1909. The 
meeting was called to order by the town clerk, and a mod- 
erator was chosen. 

The call convening the meeting was read. None of the 
objects enumerated on the call were specifically considered, 
but on the other hand the following resolution was offered, 
entitled "An Act Establishing a Board of Estimate and 
Taxation in the Town of Greenwich." 

"Be it Enacted: By the Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives in General Assembly convened." Then follows 
the bill changing the form of government of the Town of 
Greenwich, which is spread in full on the minutes, which 
specifies of whom the Board of Estimate and Taxation is to 
be composed, and fixes their term of office, etc. 

The question has been asked, " Did the call for this special 
town meeting give the ordinary intelligent voter notice that 
a bill changing the form of government of the Town of 



New Form of Government 299 

Greenwich was to be presented for consideration? If 
inadequate notice was given, was not the bill passed at an 
illegally held town meeting?" 

An attempt was made to amend the bill as read, so as to 
eliminate some of its alleged objectionable features, which 
was voted down, and the bill was sent to the General As- 
sembly, as passed at the meeting. The bill was passed by the 
General Assembly in July, 1909, but in a much modified 
form, and signed by the governor on the twenty -first day of 
July, 1909. The proposed Board of Estimate and Taxation 
met within the time prescribed in the bill, and the bill then 
went into effect. It provided, among other things, for: 

Sec. I. The fiscal year for the town to commence on the 
first Monday of September. 

Sec. 2. For a Board of Estimate and Taxation, and 
Brown, William W., McCutcheon, James, 

Friedrich, Henry, Mead, Nelson B., 

Haight, Webster, Palmer, Frank T., 

Lockwood, Luke V., Palmer, Hamlin F., 

Lockwood, Nelson U., Wills, Charles T., 
Marshall, Howard E. , Wright, Wilbur S., 

shall constitute such a board and hold office 
until November i, 191 1, and until such others 
shall be elected and qualified, who shall be 
elected biennially thereafter. 

Sec. II. Authorizes the town treasurer, under certain con- 
ditions, to borrow money in the name of the 
town, and give notes therefor. 

Sec. 13. Selectmen to be elected biennially. 

Sec. 14. A Superintendent of Highways. 

Sec. 15. A Commissioner of Charities. 

There have been many questions raised as to the legaHty 
and constitutionality of the foregoing bill, and at a special 
town meeting held on the second day of October, 1909, it was : 



300 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Resolved that the selectmen be and hereby are instructed 
to employ new counsel to take the necessary steps to test the 
constitutionality and validity of the Act of the Legislature of 
the State of Connecticut, entitled: "An Act changing the 
Government of the Town of Greenwich. " 

The highest court in the State of Connecticut has held : 
"Towns have no inherent rights. They have always been 
the mere creatures of the colony or state. The state 
possesses all the powers of sovereignty, except so far as 
limited by the Constitution of the United States." 

The minutes of the town meetings fail to disclose that 
any action was taken on the recommendation of the com- 
mittee of five for a "further and a more comprehensive 
examination into all departments of the town's affairs." 

Borough of Greenwich. 

Charter granted 1854, amended 1864 and 1866. Revised 
Charter granted 1881, amended 1886, 1889, 1893, 1897, 1905, 
and 1907. 

The Borough of Greenwich was created by an act of the 
General Assembly, passed at the May Session, 1854, as 
follows : 

Resolved, that all the electors of the state inhabitants of 
the Town of Greenwich in Fairfield County within certain 
bounds therein specified, be and the same are hereby or- 
dained, constituted and declared to be forever one body 
corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of 
the Warden, Burgesses and Freemen of the Borough of 
Greenwich, and by that name they and their successors 
forever shall and may have perpetual succession, etc. 

In pursuance with this charter a meeting of the freemen 
in the Borough of Greenwich was held at the town house in 
said borough on the tenth day of July, 1854, fo^* the choice of 
officers and the transaction of other business. Robert W. 



Borough of Greenwich 301 

Mead was chosen clerk, and the oath of office was adminis- 
tered to him by Samuel Close, a Justice of the Peace in said 
borough. The following named persons were duly elected: 
Warden, William L. Lyon; Burgesses, Samuel Close, J. B. 
Curtis, Lewis Howe, Alvan Mead, Philander Button, and 
J. D. Steel. 

The annual meetings for the election of officers and the 
transaction of other business were thereafter held on the 
second Tuesday in April in each year, until the Revised 
Charter was granted in 1881, when the annual meeting was 
changed to the first Monday in April. 

In 1 88 1, a Revised Charter was granted by the General 
Assembly, which was approved on the twenty-ninth day of 
March, 1881, and like the original charter has been amended 
several times. This Revised Charter gave the Warden and 
Burgesses the right to "open and lay out new highways, 
streets and public walks, and alter and repair the same, to 
discontinue streets and highways, or exchange the same for 
other highways and streets. " 

In the spring of 1897, ^ proposition was made to change 
the old road which ran northerly from Putnam Avenue along 
the brow of Put's Hill and which at one time formed part 
of the old Post Road, then known as Oak Street, so as to cor- 
respond with the present Church Road. The matter was 
brought before a meeting of the Warden and Burgesses held 
on the eighth day of June, 1897, and referred to the highway 
committee. An agreement was made between the Borough 
of Greenwich and Julia A. Button, the owner of the adjoining 
premises, whereby she was to deed to the Borough of Green- 
wich, as part of the consideration for such discontinuance of 
the old road and the acceptance of the new one, the parcel 
of land at the top of Put's Hill, now known as Putnam Park, 
as appears by the minutes of a meeting of the Warden and 
Burgesses held on the twenty-eighth day of Jime, 1897, viz. : 

The matter of the change in roads at Putnam Avenue 
and Oak Street was discussed by F. A. Hubbard, R. Jay 



302 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Walsh, Charles Cameron and I. L. Mead, and others, who 
appeared before the board. 

The following resolution was offered by Mr. Russell, and 
carried : 

Resolved that Mrs. Philander Button be and she is 
hereby authorized and empowered to open and construct 
a public highway in the Borough of Greenwich from 
Putnam Avenue to Oak Street in accordance with the 
map made by S. E. Minor, Engineer, and in possession 
of this board, said way being of public convenience and 
necessity, and : 

Resolved that when said highway is constructed accept- 
ably to the Board of Warden and Burgesses of this Borough, 
so much of Oak Street as is situated in this Borough between 
the northerly terminus of said proposed road and Putnam 
Avenue will be by this board discontinued. It being repre- 
sented to this board and understood that in case the discon- 
tinuance of Oak Street will prevent the public on foot, or in 
carriages, from driving out on the bluff north of Putnam 
Avenue, that Mrs. Button will donate such land as may be 
sufficient to enable the public to so use said bluff. 

The closing of this road, which at one time was part of 
the King's Highway, and which also included the place 
where General Putnam started on his ride down the cow- 
path when chased by the British, was strongly opposed by 
the old inhabitants. Some of them fearing that future com- 
plications might arise owing to a failure to obtain a proper 
deed to the present Putnam Park, obtained an injunction 
restraining the borough from taking the contemplated steps. 
The hearing was held on the eleventh day of January, 1898. 
The matter, however, was settled, Mrs. Button agreeing to 
deed to the Borough of Greenwich about a quarter of an acre 
of land on the crest of Put's Hill for a park in exchange for 
closing Oak Street, whereupon the injunction was vacated. 

At a special meeting of the Warden and Burgesses of the 
Borough of Greenwich held on the seventh day of April, 
1898, the above proposed road was accepted, as appears by 
the following resolution : 



Putnam Park 303 

Resolved that the way laid out and constructed by Mrs. 
Julia A. Button from Putnam Avenue to Oak Street in 
accordance with a former vote of the board be and the same 
is hereby accepted as a public highway, and that a map of 
the same be lodged with the clerk of this Borough, and the 
town clerk of Greenwich. 

Resolved that the portion of the highway known as Oak 
Street lying between the land recently quitclaimed to the 
Borough of Greenwich by Julia A. Button and the junction 
of Oak Street with the new road leading from Putnam Ave- 
nue be and the same is hereby discontinued, and that no 
benefit be assessed, or damages awarded. 

By a resolution of the Warden and Burgesses of the Bor- 
ough of Greenwich passed at a meeting held on the seventh 
day of November, 1899, the name of Oak Street was changed 
to Old Church Road. 

During the year 1909, the Havemeyer family deeded to 
the Borough of Greenwich a triangular piece of land at the 
junction of Greenwich Avenue and Arch Street for the pur- 
pose of a public park, except the strip which was to be taken 
for the widening of Greenwich Avenue. 

At a meeting of the Warden and Burgesses of the Borough 
of Greenwich held on the seventeenth day of August, 1909, 
the committee which had been previously appointed to pre- 
pare and submit a proper resolution of thanks, reported as 
follows : 

At a meeting of the legal voters of the Borough of Green- 
wich, held at the Town Hall on the twenty-second day of 
July, 1909, the undersigned were appointed a committee to 
prepare a preamble and resolution of thanks to Mrs. Louisine 
W. Havemeyer and family, which they now present to this 
board for approval. 

Whereas, Mrs. Louisine W, Havemeyer, with the family 
of the late H. O. Havemeyer, have by deeds of gift donated 
to the Borough of Greenwich a triangular parcel of land at 
Greenwich Avenue and Arch Street, and a strip of land along 
the westerly side of said avenue, the former for a public park, 
and the latter for highway purposes; and. 



304 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Whereas, Mrs. Havemeyer heretofore united with her 
husband in the inspiration, direction, construction and equip- 
ment of the Greenwich School Building; and. 

Whereas, these generous donors also contemplate the 
creation of a trust fund of $20,000 for the physical mainten- 
ance of said school building; and. 

Whereas, these noble gifts are a perpetual memorial to 
Mr. and Mrs. Havemeyer, and of the Havemeyer family, 
whose unselfish interest in the public welfare has always been 
manifest, and whose generosity and philanthropy have 
been far reaching ; therefore : 

Resolved, that the thanks of the inhabitants of this com- 
munity be extended to Mrs. Havemeyer, and to the other 
members of the family of the late Henry O. Havemeyer, 
for this, their latest act of public benevolence, with a full 
assurance that the entire public has the kindest regard for 
the memory of him who has gone before, and the most 
grateful appreciation of those who remaining bear his name. 

Frederick A. Hubbard, ) 

George S. Ray, V Committee on Resolu- 

Joseph H. Lockwood. ) tions. 

Resolved, by the Warden and Burgesses, that the fore- 
going preamble and resolution be adopted and made a 
matter of record, and that the same be engrossed and for- 
warded to Mrs. Havemeyer. 

The Fire Department was organized on the seventh day 
of April, 1879, and by-laws were adopted for the government 
of the same. 

In July, 1896, the Gamewell fire alarm system was 
installed in the Borough of Greenwich, and in December, 
1896, it was extended to Belle Haven, Rocky Neck, and 
Chickahominy. 

The Police Department was organized in June, 1896, 
with William E. Ritch, Chief, who now has nine men under 
him. 

The Health Department was organized in May, 1897, and 
Dr. Leander P. Jones was the first Borough Health Officer. 



Borough of Greenwich 305 

The first brick pavement in the Town of Greenwich was 
laid on Greenwich Avenue in 1903, from Putnam Avenue to 
Lewis Street; from Lewis Street to Havemeyer Place in 1906; 
and from Havemeyer Place to Railroad Avenue in 1908. 

Indebtedness. 

Annual Report for 1882 $ 5,806.85 

Annual Report for 1892 41,942.90 

Annual Report for 191 1, bonded . . .$147,000.00 

notes 143,500.00 290,500.00 



CHAPTER XIV. 

courts — incidents and modes of life of the early set- 
tlers — ^a journey by stage in 1 826 — market boats — 
steamboats — railroads — trolley roads — business 
centres — industries — newspapers — lawyers — phy- 
sicians — hospitals — fire companies — ^libraries — 
public schools — private schools — churches — ho- 
tels — societies and clubs. 

Courts. 

The earliest form of government' in the Colony of 
Connecticut was based upon the commission granted by the 
General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony on the third 
day of March, 1636, which soon proved to be inadequate, 
and a convention, or popular assembly, was held at Hartford 
on the fourteenth day of January, 1639, at which was adopted 
the first Constitution of Connecticut. 

The General Court exercised legislative as well as judicial 
functions and in it was vested the supreme power of the com- 
monwealth. It consisted of two parts, the same as the 
General Assembly, but called respectively magistrates and 
deputies. They, as well as all other colonial officials, except 
commissioners, who were appointed by the General Court, 
were elected annually by the freemen of the colony. It had 
original civil and criminal, as well as appellate, jurisdiction. 

During the month of February, 1638, an inferior court 

' Judicial and Civil History oj Connecticut, by Hon. Dwight Loomis and J. 
Gilbert Calhoun, published in 1895. 

306 



Courts 307 

called a "Particular Court " was created for the trial of petty 
civil and criminal cases, and in 1647, the governor, or deputy- 
governor, with two magistrates, or three magistrates were 
appointed by the General Court to preside at the Particular 
Court. These officials had previously been elected by the 
freemen of the colony, and the General Court simply desig- 
nated who of its members should preside at this court. 

A Town Court was also soon created, which had only lim- 
ited jurisdiction. These were the courts under the first 
Constitution, and appeals, where allowable, were taken to the 
General Court. In 1643, provisions were made for the first 
grand jury 

A settlement in the New Haven Colony was made by a 
company of planters from Boston at New Haven in the 
spring of 1638, who soon after formed a civil compact among 
themselves. On the fourth day of June, 1639, the first 
meeting of all the free planters was held, and on the twenty- 
fifth day of October, 1639, the first civil court was organized, 
and a few days later the General Court was established, sub- 
stantially the same as the one at Hartford. ' On the twenty- 
third day of October, 1643, the General Court adopted a 
general constitution, declaring among other things "that 
none shall be admitted to be free burgesses in any of the 
plantations within this jurisdiction for the future, but such 
planters as are members of some or other of the approved 
churches in New England," and established the Court of 
Magistrates, and the Plantation Courts. When Greenwich 
became part of the New Haven Colony, in 1 650, it was con- 
sidered a part of the Town of Stamford, and as such was 
under the immediate jurisdiction of the courts established by 
that colony. Later these courts came under the jurisdiction 
of the Colony of Connecticut. 

The charter granted to the Colony of Connecticut on the 
twenty- third day of April, 1662, by Charles II, not only 
confirmed the popular constitution of 1639, but contained 

^History of the Colony of New Haven, by Edward E. Atwater, published 
in 1881, p. 184. 



3o8 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

more liberal provisions than any heretofore issued. It 
included the New Haven Colony, which submitted to its 
terms in 1665, and it thereby became part of the Colony of 
Connecticut. It, however, retained its capital city until 
1875, when Hartford became the sole capital. 

SUPERIOR COURT. 

Under this charter the General Courts were called the 
General Assembly. The old Particular Court became the 
Court of Assistants and exercised many of the judicial 
powers of the former General Court. It was presided over 
by the governor, or deputy-governor, and six assistants, 
formerly called magistrates. This court was succeeded in 
May, 171 1, by a new tribunal called the Superior Court, and 
the old court abandoned. It was presided over by one chief 
judge and four other judges, all appointed by the General 
Assembly. It now has original civil and criminal as well as 
appellate jurisdiction, and is presided over by a single judge 
appointed by the General Assembly on the nomination of 
the governor. 

SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS. 

The Supreme Court of Errors was created at the May 
Session of the General Assembly, 1784, and originally con- 
sisted of the lieutenant-governor and the council. It had 
only appellate jurisdiction and was the court of last resort. 
It was abandoned in May, 1806, and the Superior Court 
constituted the court of last resort, which judicial powers it 
exercised until the constitution of 1 816. In May, 18 19, the 
Supreme Court of Errors was revived and consisted of one 
chief judge and four associate judges, any three of whom 
constituted a quorum. It was given final and conclu- 
sive jurisdiction of all matters brought by way of error, 
or appeal, from the judgments or decrees of any Superior 
Court. 



Courts 309 

COUNTY COURT. 

At the May Session of the General Assembly,' 1666, 
Fairfield County was created, and also a County Court for 
said county. The County Court for Fairfield County was 
originally presided over by one assistant, formerly magis- 
trate, and two commissioners, or three assistants, appointed 
by the General Assembly, and had probate, as well as civil 
and criminal jurisdiction. At the January Session of the 
General Assembly, 1697, it was decided that the Coimty 
Court should be presided over by three or four of the most 
able and judicial freemen, appointed by the General Assem- 
bly, that shall be Justices of the Peace. 

Three of these justices with a judge appointed by the 
General Assembly had power to hold the several county 
courts. In 1855 the county courts were abandoned, and 
their jurisdiction conferred on the Superior Court. 

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 

In 1870 the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County 
was created, and originally had only civil jurisdiction. In 
1889 it was given criminal jurisdiction, and now has original 
civil and criminal as well as appellate jurisdiction. It is 
presided over by one judge for the civil cases, and one judge, 
another one, for the criminal cases, both appointed by the 
General Assembly on the nomination of the governor for the 
term of four years. 

The Hon. Dwight Loomis, late judge of the Supreme 
Court of Errors, and J. Gilbert Calhoun of the Hartford Bar, 
in their Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut, state in 
regard to the appointment of judges by the General Assem- 
bly, as follows: "In practice, the method of nomination is 
by first securing the approval of those members of the 
Assembly, from the cotmty in which the court is located, 
who belong to the prevailing political party. The person 

' Colonial Records of Connecticut. 



310 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

thus selected by the county caucus is then regarded as the 
nominee of the entire party in the Assembly and his name 
supported with the same fidelity that a nominee for the 
Senate of the United States would receive. A more per- 
nicious method of selecting a person to fill a respectable 
judicial office could hardly be devised. To secure his 
nomination, the candidate is invited to enter the lowest 
phase of party politics, where he will be at the mercy of the 
' third House, ' which is never so strong as in councils only 
half legislative, and the other half political and personal, 
and he usually discovers that the claims for candidates for 
other offices somehow get so entangled with his own, that 
the ultimate result is a deal in which the last consideration 
to receive attention, or respect, is the fitness of the indi- 
viduals for the position to be filled. The system is one that 
can rarely produce good results, whether the office be im- 
portant, or obscure, but it is all the more deplorable when 
it is employed for the selection of wise and upright judges. 

" By a statute passed in 1886, it was provided that 'every 
nomination made in either branch of the General Assembly 
for judge of any Court of Common Pleas, or District Court, 
shall be by the introduction of a concurrent resolution 
making such appointment, which resolution shall be referred, 
without debate, to the joint standing committee on the 
judiciary, who shall report thereon within six legislative 
days.' This provision was extended to judges of district, 
city, police and borough courts, where the Assembly has 
power to appoint, in 1889. If designed as a correction of 
the evil method of selecting judges, it is no especial improve- 
ment. " 

PROBATE COURTS. 

The jurisdiction in probate matters was exercised by 
the Particular Court until 1666, when Fairfield County was 
created and at the same time the County Court of Fairfield 
County which was given probate jurisdiction and was 



Courts 311 

presided over by one assistant, formerly magistrate, and two 
commissioners, or three assistants. At the October Session 
of the General Assembly, 1698, the Fairfield County Probate 
Court was created. On the ninth day of May, 1728, the 
General Assembly passed an act creating a probate court at 
Stamford for the towns of Stamford, Greenwich, and Ridge- 
field. In the year 1853, the Town of Greenwich was set off 
as a probate district by itself. The court is presided over by 
one judge elected by the voters in the probate district. "The 
position can be filled by any citizen. Among the one hundred 
and twelve probate judges of the state to-day (1895), only 
thirty-two of them are lawyers. The other eighty include 
farmers, cobblers, shopkeepers, mechanics, clerks, real 
estate agents, painters and livery men." Appeals always 
lie from the decision of these courts to the Superior Court. 

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 

"The earliest use of the title 'justices of the peace' in the 
colony was in 1686, under the Andros government, when, 
throughout the whole territory of New England, they were 
empowered to try causes under forty shillings in amount, 
and not involving the titles to land." They have limited 
original civil and criminal jurisdiction. The Justices of the 
Peace are elected by ballot and hold office for the term of two 
years. Where justices' juries are permitted, they consist of 
six persons drawn from the regular list of the town. Appeals 
lie to the Superior Court, or to the Court of Common Pleas. 

The courts, so far as the Town of Greenwich is con- 
cerned, now are : 

SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS, 3D DISTRICT. 

It consists of one chief judge and four associate judges 
appointed by the General Assembly on the nomination of 
the governor. It has appellate jurisdiction only, and is 
the court of last resort. The term of office is for eight 
years. 



312 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

SUPERIOR COURT OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY. 

One judge presides who is appointed by the General 
Assembly on the nomination of the governor. It has 
appellate, as well as original civil and criminal jurisdiction. 
The term of the judge is for eight years. 

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY. 

One judge appointed by the General Assembly on the 
nomination of the governor presides on the civil side, and 
another judge appointed by the General Assembly on the 
nomination of the governor presides on the criminal side. 
It has appellate, as well as original civil and criminal 
jurisdiction. The term of the judges is for four years 
respectively. 

PROBATE COURT. 

The Probate Court for the District of Greenwich was 
created by an act of the General Assembly passed in 1853. 
The judge is elected by ballot, and now holds the office for 
the term of two years. 

BOROUGH COURT OF GREENWICH. 

The Borough Court of Greenwich was created by an act 
of the General Assembly passed in 1889, and approved May 
21, 1889. Amended in 1893, 1895, 1901, 1905, and 1907. 
The judge and deputy judge are appointed by the General 
Assembly and hold office for the term of two years from the 
first Monday in June, odd years. It has limited original 
civil and criminal jurisdiction. 

JUSTICES COURT. 

This court is presided over by Justices of the Peace, who 
are elected by ballot for the term of two years. It has 
limited original civil and criminal jurisdiction. 



Incidents of the Early Settlers 313 

The Colony of Connecticut was made up of separate 
towns, and at the time Greenwich was incorporated a town, 
in 1665, there were in the present bounds of the State of 
Connecticut fourteen plantations, called towns. ^ Each of 
these was a petty commonwealth by itself, maintaining 
within the limits of the town a government of its own 
choice. The inhabitants of each town elected their own 
local officers, framed their own codes, and cared for their 
own common interest. Assembled in town meetings, they 
discussed and determined all questions relative to local 
improvements and expenses, took action as to the opening 
of roads, the building of bridges, the levying of taxes, the 
support of the poor, and all other matters appertaining to 
the welfare of the town. They also exercised the right to 
grant, or deny, applications for admission to citizenship. 
Two deputies (now representatives) chosen by a majority 
of the voters of each town, took part with the magistrates 
(now senators), also chosen by vote, in the general govern- 
ment. The legislature thus constituted, then known as the 
General Court, met in the spring and fall of each year. With 
this law-making body, the courts, a governor, and other high 
officials of their own election, the people of the Colony of 
Connecticut were already, more than one hundred years 
before the Revolutionary War, an independent state. 

The early settlers were farmers, living frugally upon the 
products of the soil. Most of their wants were supplied by 
domestic industry, and what they purchased was commonly 
procured by the way of barter. "They trafficked chiefly," 
we are told, in wood and cattle. By the middle of the 
eighteenth century, however, we find quite a variety of 
trades carried on in the town, such as those of wheelwrights, 
hatters, carpenters, tanners, saddlers, weavers, coopers, 
basket-makers, and millers. They were farmers, who plied 
these handicrafts in addition to the cultivation of the soil, 
particularly during the fall and winter months. A few, 

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314 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

however, devoted the greater part of their time to fishing. 
The week-day Hfe of the early settler was one of hard and 
unremitting toil. No eight -hour law, or Saturday half holi- 
day would have suited his ideas, or agreed with the require- 
ments of his environments. His acres of forest land must be 
cleared and fenced, his meadows mowed, swamps drained, 
and upland lots tilled by his own strong arms aided, perhaps, 
by those of his sturdy boys. Not less busy were his wife and 
daughters, upon whom devolved not only the cares that now 
rest upon the humblest of their sex, but also the labor of 
preparing, through every stage of manufacture and adjust- 
ment, the coarse but substantial garments of the entire 
family, as well as the bedding. Each room in the house, 
even the kitchen and the parlor, or best room, was generally 
supplied with a bed. Besides these, a table or two, a cup- 
board, some chests, and a few chairs constituted the heavier 
articles of household furniture. The dishes in ordinary use 
were made of wood ; only a few families took pride in dis- 
playing a few pieces of pewter in the cupboard. The floors 
were generally bare and the kitchen was the principal sitting- 
room of the family. On the Sabbath the family attended 
church all day, or paid a fine for being absent without a 
reasonable excuse. 

An incident is related of Richard Crab, who seems to 
have been somewhat remiss in his attendance at the meeting- 
house on the Sabbath and who also was found harboring a 
Quaker by the name of Thomas Marshall. ' So on the first 
day of December, 1657, Daniel Scofield, then marshal at 
Stamford, with a strong force was directed to proceed to 
Greenwich, Old Town, now Sound Beach, search the house of 
Richard Crab and seize the aforesaid Thomas Marshall and 
his books. When they came to Goodman Crab's house to 
demand the Quaker's books and seize the aforesaid Thomas 
Marshall, Goodwife Crab went into ye other room and 
made herself fast by shutting the door, and Richard Crab 

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Incidents of the Early Settlers 315 

used means to have the door opened again, and when it was 
opened Goodwife Crab came and said : "Is this your fasting 
and praying, to come and rob us and rob men's houses; then 
she held up her hands and said the vengence of God hangs 
over your heads at Stamford for taking away our land with- 
out commission and wronging of them ; then she fell a railing 
of the ministers, and said they were priests and preached for 
hire, and called them Baal's priests, and she would not hear 
them, and said we were shedders of ye blood of the saints of 
God ; also she told Goodman Bell he was a traitor, a liar and 
a villain, and his posterity would suffer for his iniquity. 
She then fell upon the officer, John Waterbury, and said he 
was a traitor and railed upon the marshal Daniel Scofield, 
with bitter words." Whereupon Richard Crab and his wife 
were bound over for trial at the Magistrates Court at New 
Haven for their many clamorous and reproachful speeches 
against the ministry, government and officers, and neglecting 
of meetings for sanctification of the Sabbath, 

Richard Crab pleaded his own case before the court. 
"The governor told him that these were notorious things 
which were testified to, and must not be suffered. He 
replied so they are, " but he could not restrain his wife. The 
governor demanded of him, "whether he owned the Lord's 
Day to be ye Christian Sabbath, to be sanctified by virtue of 
the fourth commandment, to which he answered that he did 
own it. " He was fined by the court and compelled to give 
security for his quiet Christian carriage, and that he would 
testify his esteem of ye ordinances by his attendance on 
them. 

Situated on the north shore of Long Island Sound, ' and 
within thirty miles of the City of New York, Greenwich has 
enjoyed from its earliest times whatever facilities existed for 
public communication. It is indeed difficult at this late day 
to imagine how rude and inconvenient the early modes of 
communication must have been, until a comparatively recent 

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period. For nearly an hundred years after the first settle- 
ment of the town, all travel by land was performed on 
horseback, or on foot. Deputies (representatives) rode their 
horses up to the sessions of the General Court, or were con- 
veyed thither by sailing vessels. The journeys of the early 
settlers were short and limited to the neighboring towns of 
Rye and Stamford. The interests and sympathies of the 
people then were eastward, not as now toward the City of 
New York. 

Government communications between different places 
were established at an early date, and in 1672 the General 
Assembly fixed a schedule of prices to be paid persons who 
should be employed in the service of the colony for the con- 
veyance of letters and other official documents. This was 
done owing to the great extravagance of the messenger, who, 
by profuse spending at the ordinaries (taverns), and other 
public places on the road upon the country's credit, rendered 
large expense accounts, and caused great delays in the 
journeys. The charges from Rye to Hartford, from the first 
of May to the middle of October, were "horse hyer twelve 
shillings, the man and expenses twenty shillings; all is one 
pound and twelve shillings." From October to April, the 
charges to be eight pence more "for every night they lye 
out." 

Postal communications between New York and Boston 
were first established on the first day of January, 1673. The 
messenger, or post, made only monthly trips, leaving New 
York on the first of the month, and Boston on the middle of 
the month. According to instructions, dated the twenty- 
second day of January, 1673, the messenger, or post, was to 
apply to Governor Winthrop of Connecticut for "the best 
direction how to forme the Post Road, to establish places on 
the road where to leave the way letters, to mark some Trees 
that shall direct Passengers the best way, and to fix certain 
houses for your several stages [stopping places] both to bait 
and lodge at." The post through the Town of Greenwich 
followed the old Indian trail from the great stone in the 



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Byram River to the Mianus River at Dumpling Pond (now 
North Mianus), and from thence to the village of Stamford. 
The names for this trail have been the Westchester Path, 
Country Road, Kings Highway in 1679, Post Road, Turn- 
pike Road, and now it is the Post Road again. It now 
deviates somewhat from the original trail, particularly 
between the top of Byram and Nigerhole Hills, at the top of 
Put's Hill, and between the mill pond at Cos Cob and the 
City of Stamford. As^ early as 1672 the General Assembly 
began to pass laws regulating the Country Road. 

The messenger was to allow persons who desired to 
travel in his company and to afford them the best help in his 
power. He was to provide himself with a spare horse, a 
horn, and good portmanteaux. 

Madam Knight^ gives the following account of her jour- 
ney on horseback from Boston to New York in 1704. 

Tuesday, October ye third, about 8 in the morning, I 
with the Post proceeded forward . . . and about 2 after- 
noon, arrived at Post's second stage, where the western 
Post met and exchanged letters Having here dis- 
charged the Ordinary for self and Guide, as I understood was 
the custom, about 3 afternoon, went on with my third Guide, 
who road very hard; and having crossed Providence ferry, 
we come to a River which they generally ride through. But 
I dare not venture ; so the Post got a lad and canoe to carry 
me to the other side, and he rid through and led my 
horse. . . . Rewarding my sculler, again mounted and made 
the best of my way forward. The Road here was very 
uneven and ye day pleasant, it being now near sunset. But 
the Post told me we had 14 miles to ride to the next stage, 
where we were to lodge. I asked him of the rest of the Road, 
foreseeing we must travel in the night. He told me there 
was a bad river we were to ride through, which was so very 
fierce a horse could sometimes hardly stem it ; but it was nar- 
row and we should soon be over. Late at night, the traveller 
after all these adventures was roused from her pleasing 
imaginations by the Post's sounding his horn, which assured 
me he was arrived at the stage where we were to lodge; and 

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31 8 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

that musick was the most musical and agreeable to me. 
. . . From Norwalk we hasted towards Rye, walking 
and leading our horses neer a mile together, up a prodigious 
high hill, and so riding till about nine at night, and there 
arrived and took up our lodgings at an ordinary, which a 
French family kept. 

The stage line between New York and Boston was first 
established on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1772, as will 
more fully appear by reference to the preceding pages of this 
volume, and in 1802 a stage line was established between 
Horseneck (Borough of Greenwich) and Ridgefield, running 
through Stanwich and Bedford. 

An account of a journey by stage taken in 1826, written 
by AmeHa, daughter of Zophar Mead, of Field Point, who 
married Isaac Lyon in 1828, has been preserved by his 
descendants, and is substantially as follows : 

A sketch of a journey taken in 1826 during the months of 
September, October and November. 

September 24, The morning being cloudy and unpleas- 
ant, I did not leave home till eight and then in company with 
brother Oliver and sister Louisa. We set out for Uncle Job 
Lyon's, where we met with Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Holly, Miss 
Sarah Mead, Miss Elizabeth R. Mead, Abraham Mead, 
Abraham D. Mead and Isaac Lyon. We had an early 
dinner and bidding uncle adieu, we left North Street. The 
weather was lowering and just after we left Bedford it began 
to rain a little, but we rode to Somers, where we all partook 
of a good supper and now have retired to our rooms. 

September 29. Just been taking a view around me and 
find it is a delightful morning. The clouds have gone and 
with them every dull feeling. The air is clear and cool, 
and my spirits are as good as the weather is fine. Somers is 
a neat place, too small to be called a village. We left here 
at an early hour and rode to Carmel, where we took break- 
fast. We left Carmel at ten, and here we had the pain of 
parting with our friends, who had come this far with us, 
leaving Mr. and Mrs. Holly, brother Oliver and myself to 
proceed on our journey. 

Fishkill was the next place we passed through. The part 



A Journey by Stage in 1826 319 

we saw was very indifferent in its appearance. It was very 
rough and we were either ascending, or descending hills, or 
travelling on the edges of them, which appeared very dan- 
gerous. We passed over the Fishkill mountains where there 
was a broken space in the ridge of the mountains. I should 
not have known them from their appearance from the other 
hills we passed. Stormville and Hopewell were the next 
towns. The last is a pleasant, but small place. At Hacken- 
sack the land puts on a rich and fertile appearance. My 
gallant called here on Mrs. Seward, a friend of my grand- 
mother's. The weather has suddenly changed and the clouds 
look strangely. The sun is shining. The wind blows high 
and the rain is falling fast. To give a complete description 
would be impossible, but I will attempt to sketch some of its 
most prominent features. The horizon was edged with a 
dark cloud of a velvet appearance. Above this was a streak 
of clear sky from whence the sun was shining. Above this 
was a black heavy cloud, which produced the rain. This is a 
sketch of the clouds on the left. Those on the right were in 
the most wild and confused manner thrown into every form 
that imagination can picture. The under side was of a dark 
and lively blue and shaded to the lightest satin, like clouds 
that grace the summer eve, and from these clouds the wind 
came in sudden gusts, which took up the dust and leaves and 
sent the rain with redoubled violence, and to add to this 
scenery the mountains on the opposite side of the North 
River looked like so many clouds of a smoky blue. About 
sunset we came in sight of Poughkeepsie. It appeared 
smaller than I expected, not larger than Stamford. On 
entering it I found myself very much mistaken. The town 
lies on the banks of the river, which hides the size of it. We 
rode through a number of streets, but did not see enough to 
give much description, but all was bustle and confusion. 
They had had a general training. Poughkeepsie is a busy 
place and has many elegant buildings, but it is dusty and 
noisy. 

September 30. Another pleasant morning and we set out 
on our ride. Leaving Poughkeepsie we passed through many 
small places, which I did not hear the names of. Rhinebeck 
and " Loradown " were the largest. This morning I had the 
pleasure of beholding the North River. It did not appear 
more than half a mile wide, but in reality it is a mile. This 
is a beautiful river and has many delightful places along its 
banks. I with pleasure observed the vessels as they glided 



320 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

down the silvan stream towards that much admired City of 
New York. The Catskill Mountains have been in full view 
to-day. We have seen an elegant building near the top of 
one of the mountains, which I expect was the Mansion 
House. I had a wish to visit it, but it laid out of the route 
we had planned. We continued our journey until three 
o'clock, when we arrived at Hudson and concluded to spend 
the Sabbath there. Hudson is much larger than I expected. 
It has one street that runs to the river, that is a compact 
street and is a mile in length. We walked down to the foot 
of the street where we had a very fine view of the river and of 
Athens on the opposite bank of the river. It is smaller than 
Hudson and situated much lower. 

October i . This morning we attended the Presbyterian 
Church. It is a small house and was not very well filled. 
We heard a sermon from the Second of Corinthians, fifth 
chapter, the verse I do not remember. The words were 
"through the terror of the Lord, we do persuade you. " We 
had an animated speaker. He was young and engaging in 
his manner. We attended the same church again in the 
afternoon and heard the same minister preach from Proverbs, 
the seventeenth chapter and first verse, "boast not thyself of 
tomorrow." Hudson has five houses of public worship, 
Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptists, Methodists, and Uni- 
versalists. 

October 2. We were ready to start before sunrise and 
I feel pleased at the idea of bidding Hudson farewell, as it is 
a dull place. The inhabitants have a great resemblance to 
the Dutch in manners and appearances. We took a view of 
the town from the third story, which overlooked those 
houses around us, and we could see the river for some dis- 
tance. Now and then a steamboat and sloop passed, all 
moving very quickly. We could see Athens very plain and 
the Catskill Mountains were still to be seen. We rode to 
Kinderhook. The roads here were very rough owing to the 
late rains. I have observed a fashion in this vicinity, which 
I never saw before and which induced me to think that the 
ladies here had all been quarrelling with their ovens for they 
were turned out of doors and sometimes even across the 
street. We came in sight of Albany this afternoon. It 
appears very much like Brooklyn, except it is much larger 
and is situated on a much higher bank. On entering the 
town, I was very much disappointed. The dirty narrow 
streets do not suit my taste. The pavements are broken, 



A Journey by Stage in 1826 321 

which make the riding very disagreeable, and to finish off, 
we came very near being upset by a couple of young Dutch 
gentlemen. The lower part of the town in particular is 
unpleasant. The upper part is more regular and pleasant. 
After we left Albany we saw a number of elegant places, 
some of the most delightful I ever saw. We soon came along 
side of the Grand Canal, as it is called. In this sight I was 
completely disappointed. There was nothing grand about 
it. It is like a large ditch, as I have heard it called. We 
saw the Northern Canal too, and rode between them for 
some distance. We crossed the river at Albany and travelled 
on the west side. We soon came in sight of Troy. It is on 
the east side of the river. We had a good view of this vil- 
lage. It appears neater than Albany. We passed through 
West Troy where there are a number of beautiful summer 
seats. We soon came to the junction of the Hudson and 
Mohawk Rivers, and continued our journey beside the 
Mohawk. In passing over this river, we saw the falls called 
the Cohoes. The river was low, but still it was a grand sight 
to see a sheet of water pouring over a precipice of forty feet. 
The bridge over the Mohawk is said to be half a mile long 
and has a closed cover with a few windows and is a gloomy 
looking place. We arrived at Waterford in the evening. 
October 3. Waterford is the " pleasantest " place we 
have seen. It is small, but neat. The houses appear new 
and well finished. It is situated on a point between the 
Hudson and the Mohawk Rivers. Leaving Waterford we 
rode a few miles beside the Hudson River. Leaving the 
river we rode through a sandy barren country to Saratoga. 
This is a tasty place. The houses are generally painted 
white and indeed everything is finished in the most elegant 
and showy manner. Congress Hall in particular. It is a 
long white building with a row of white pillars in front and 
these pillars have green vines twisted around them in an 
elegant and splendid manner. The United States Hotel is 
the largest building. It is of brick and four stories high, and 
has one hundred and twenty lodging rooms. We visited a 
number of the springs and tasted of the Congress and Wash- 
ington waters and found them very disagreeable. We vis- 
ited a number of smaller note and one of them had a singular 
rock formed over it. We walked to the much admired Pine 
Grove, and rode to Ballston. This is a pretty village, but 
not to be compared with Saratoga in size or in beauty, 
although some of the houses are very handsome. I saw the 



322 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Lafayette Springs at Ballston, but did not taste of the water, 
being satisfied with those I had previously tasted. We rode 
to a small village called "Larkings Comer." Tuesday eve- 
ing has come and I do not feel those low spirits. Travelling 
has a very agreeable effect on me, it enlivens my feelings and 
gives me an excellent appetite. 

October 4. We rode to Schenectady. This appears to 
be an ancient town. The buildings are small and old and 
formed after the Dutch mode of building. They have noth- 
ing of that taste and elegance, which we saw in Saratoga and 
Ballston. Union College is situated on a hill opposite the 
town. It consists of large white buildings with a beautiful 
green around them, which makes a very grand appearance. 
Here we again saw the canal, as it passes through the town, 
and we crossed it three times. On leaving Schenectady, we 
crossed the Mohawk River on a singular bridge built of 
large beams and braces, and so constructed as to form a very 
strong and substantial conveyance. Later in the day we 
crossed the river on a flat ferry-boat. We rode along the 
banks of the river to Amsterdam. It is a small village 
settled by the Dutch. A great part of the inhabitants in 
this vicinity are Dutch, or of that descent. We have this 
evening put up at a Dutch Tavern. It is a fine large white 
house. In front flows the Mohawk River, beyond is the 
canal and then the country road. The inside of the house is 
finished after the Dutch style and what was better we had an 
excellent supper. This evening for the first time I have been 
reminded of home. It was the music on the canal that 
sounded across the Mohawk, and so resembled the music we 
often hear from the vessels as they pass Field Point at home, 
and for a moment I could scarce believe that I was not really 
at home. The name of this place is ''Palistina. " We 
found bad roads to-day. 

October 5. Another foggy morning. We have had only 
one clear morning since we left home. The clouds and fog 
are generally dispersed in an hour or two after the sun is up. 
We found bad roads this morning and broke our carriage 
and "galled" our horse, and have stopped to take a new 
start. Everything is now in readiness again to start and we 
crossed another bridge similar in construction to that across 
the river near Schenectady. The name of this river is 
"Canawah Creek." We next visited Little Falls and the 
canal near them. The canal here is a curiosity, or its locks 
by which it is carried up the falls. The boats here look 



A Journey by Stage in 1826 323 

better than any I have seen before. There is a flourishing 
Httle village here, principally built of stone cut m the shape 
of large brick. From this village we rode to Herkimer. 
Here we crossed the Mohawk again and agam came m con- 
tact with the canal, and in our ride to Utica, which was 
twelve miles, we crossed it nine times. We saw a number ot 
boats and saw the canal carried over two small streams It 
was quite late this evening before we reached Utica. wnen 
we entered the main street it had the appearance ot JNew 
York, the Bowery and Chatham Street in particular We 
took a walk and saw the packet boats come m and all was 
bustle and confusion. Some gentlemen were running witJi 
ladies and others with trunks, and in a few minutes they 
were oflE again. This was done several times, and now on 
the arrival of the stage all is bustle and confusion again. 
There were five stages during the evening, and the valet tola 
my gallant that the stages and boats were continually calling 
so as to keep them busy during the night. Utica is the most 
agreeable place I have seen on our nde. It is neat and 
showy, built after the EngHsh style, and full of business and 
very lively, more so than formerly on account of the canal^ 
which passes through the town in the form of a street with 
walks on each side. Brother Oliver says, Utica has grown 
very fast since he was here before, which was about six years 
ago He thinks it is very near as large again as it was wnen 
he first saw it. The appearance of the inhabitants is 
different from those we have been travelling among._ i ney 
are large, but well proportioned and^ more easy m their 
manners, or not "so much Duchafyed." 

October 6. A delightful morning. We rode through 
New Hartford, which is a pleasant little village Bndge- 
water and Vernon were next. After leaving Vernon, we 
passed by a number of Indian huts and for the first time 1 
saw the Indians. They looked very dirty m their dress and 
their huts appeared neither comfortable nor convenient. 
We saw a piece of ground, which we took to be their burying 
place. It appeared much like the Friends burymg yard 
excepting there was no regularity about it Some one had 
shamefully misused their sacred place by plowing up a part 
of it We passed Sullivan and Manlius this afternoon and 
rode to Onondaga Hollow, where we spent the night. 

October 7. Cloudy and prospects of ram, but we set out 
early in hopes of reaching Genoa the same evening; rode to 
Nine Mile Hollow. This is a singular village situated between 



324 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

two steep hills; rode to Skaneateles, This is an elegant 
village. It lies at the head of a lake of the same name. The 
houses are generally built of wood and painted white. They 
appear to have more taste about their houses, yards and gar- 
dens, than is generally seen in this country. We arrived at 
Auburn about two o'clock in a shower of wind, hail and rain. 
The shower was soon over. Mr. Holly and brother Oliver 
walked out and met with Amos Husted, who was the first 
person I saw since I left home, that I had seen before. He 
was going to Genoa, and invited us to accompany him ; so we 
set out having him for a guide. The clouds soon grew black 
and it began to rain again. We concluded that it looked 
like a week's storm and thought it best to go on, so we 
wrapped our cloaks around us and arrived at Mrs. Caleb 
Lyon's in the evening. 

■ October 8. More pleasant than we expected. Rode to 
Northville to church, heard Mr, Smith preach from Romans, 
tenth chapter, twentieth verse. In the afternoon from Gen- 
esis, eighteenth chapter, twenty-third, fourth and fifth 
verses. Two good sermons. We saw numerous friends, 
some of whom knew only our parents, who expressed great 
pleasure in seeing us. In the evening we walked down to 
the Five Comers to an evening meeting and heard an 
exhortation delivered by Dr. Smith from these words ' ' Christ 
sayed follow me." This evening had a call from Mr. and 
Mrs. Palmer. 

October 9 to 15. Were spent in calling on and visiting 
friends and relatives in Genoa. 

October 16. We expected to ride to Auburn to-day, but 
it is raining and I think we shall be disappointed. The 
weather has cleared and at eleven o'clock we set out and at 
four we arrived at Auburn. Auburn is not very pleasant, 
being low and muddy. The theological seminary is an ele- 
gant edifice. It is built of stone and situated on a hill a 
little north of the village. We visited the State's Prison. 
The prison and its walls are built of stone. They are very 
strong and high. On entering we were informed that there 
were three hundred and thirty convicts, seven of whom were 
females. The first we saw was a company of several dejected 
fellows. They came one after the other to one of the prison 
gates and all with fallen countenances. They all appeared 
healthy. I scarcely ever saw so many stout looking men 
together without one sickly one, and those that were at their 
work had more the look of satisfaction in their countenances. 



A Journey by a Canal Packet Boat in 1826 325 

October 17. At four o'clock this morning I was handed 
into the stage by my gallant and rode thirteen miles to 
Seneca Falls, where we took breakfast. In our ride this 
morning we passed over Cayuga Lake on a bridge said to be 
a mile and a half in length. We had no view of the lake 
owing to a fog, which entirely covered the water. We rode 
several miles by the Seneca River and all at once we came in 
sight of Seneca Lake. We travelled at the north end of the 
lake, saw a sloop on its waters, which appeared very natural. 
It bears no resemblance to Long Island Sound. After leav- 
ing the lake we came to Geneva. This is a large village. 
Some of the streets are paved. There are a number of ele- 
gant public buildings and the private houses are neat and 
frequently elegant. They are generally built of brick of a 
pale color. From this place we rode to Canandaigua. We 
passed a lake of the same name. The village is smaller than 
Geneva. The houses are neat, new and elegant, and are 
painted a light yellow, which appeared very showy. We 
dined here. This afternoon we rode through a new country — 
one that was filled with stumps and logs and frequently 
burned as black as fire could make them. After riding all 
the afternoon and until eight in the evening, we arrived at 
Rochester — a new and pleasant, village. It appeared to a 
very good advantage after so tedious a ride. Six years ago 
there was scarce a building here, and far the greatest part has 
been built in the last three years. The houses are built in 
the modern style and are generally large and handsome. 

October 18. This morning we stepped on board one of 
the canal packet boats. It is a gay thing painted in the 
finest style. As we left Rochester we had a beautiful view 
of it. It appeared more elegant than last evening. Little 
did I expect to see so fine a place in the new country. As we 
left Rochester the small houses and stumps were thickly 
"intermined, " but they were soon out of sight and we had 
a full view of the trees and stumps. Brockport is the 
largest village we have passed since we came on the canal. 
It is very small. Has one pleasant street. The houses are 
principally brick. At Hawley, the canal is carried across a 
valley forty or fifty feet deep. The embankment appears 
very strong, but should it at any time give way, it appears 
that the canal would very soon be entirely emptied. We 
passed through Newport this evening. 

October 19. At Lockport. We passed several locks in 
the night which I had no opportunity of seeing. We left 



326 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

the packet at an early hour. Lockport is another one of 
those villages which the canal has been the means of build- 
ing. This is a place of considerable business, but there is 
something unpleasant in its appearance. I have just been 
observing a sheep team, a curiosity I never saw before. They 
were driven about as meek as lambs. They quite forgot 
their dignity when the dogs barked at them and ran to their 
driver for protection. We were soon seated in the stage in 
company with a gentlemen from Tennessee and another 
from Ireland. They were very sociable and full of their 
jokes, which helped to pass the time more agreeably, while 
we were riding over a bad road, which lasted for five or six 
miles from Lockport. After this we had a good road. Just 
before we came to Lewiston, we observed the monument 
erected over General Brock's remains. It is built of white 
marble. Is one hundred and fifty feet high and is con- 
structed in such a manner as to accommodate observers 
from the top. It stands on Queenstown Heights on the 
Canadian side, and here for the first time I saw the British 
dominions. We proceeded on the American side and in a 
short time we caught sight of the fog that arose from the 
Niagara Falls and could distinctly hear the water that 
poured over the rocks roar. This sight was just as I had 
painted it to myself. The sides of the river for more than a 
mile are completely lined with perpendicular rocks, which 
had a rough and terrific appearance, and perfectly coincides 
with the idea that the falls were once some distance below, 
and by the force of so large a body of water have by degrees 
worn it away to its present location, and this I think must be 
permanent. It seems impossible that the rocks around Goat 
Island should ever give way to the force of water. We are 
now at the hotel within a short distance of the falls. Have 
observed a constant tremor in everything around us, occa- 
sioned by the falling of the water. We are impatiently 
waiting for dinner, so we can have a more particular view of 
this great curiosity of nature. Have spent this afternoon in 
rambling about the falls. I have taken all the different 
views from the American side and what shall I say of this 
terrible and grand piece of nature. I know not where to 
begin, nor in what language to express my ideas to convey 
them in terms strong enough to describe this majestic scene. 
We first crossed the bridge on Goat Island. From this 
situation we saw the water for some distance above come 
"dousing" and foaming down a descent, then frequently 



A Journey by Stage in 1826 327 

coming up in a sharp high wave fly several feet in the air in 
various forms and shapes. We then crossed the island to 
view the western part of the river. Here the water flows 
faster and was deeper and pours over the rocks m a majestic 
manner. I will not attempt a description for an accurate 
one is out of my power. We followed the path that leads 
around the island and soon came in sight of the eastern part 
of the falls. We crossed the bridge back again, and walked 
down on the eastern side, and went down to the edge oithe 
river and stood on the brink, and as many may say I had 
the foolishness to put my foot in the water. Here we saw 
the river rush down the rocks in the wildest fury. Leaving 
this spot we walked down to the ferry. In passing over to 
the Canadian side, we had a new view. The mist and fog 
that arose from the falling water ascended to a great height 
and hung in a grand and beautiful festoon. The water, as if 
anxious to hurl itself down the precipice, was falhng ma wide 
white sheet and bounding in a terrific manner on the broken 
rocks below. From thence the fog arose and the water 
foaming, boiling and raging hastened away. It being now 
after sunset every scene was of majestic gloom, and the falls 
apparently roared the louder to warn us of the approach of 
night. We were soon across, but not without some toil. The 
current turned the boat around several times, but having 
good oarsmen, we soon gained the shore and for the first 
time walked on British ground. An event which will be 
long remembered on several accounts. I now find myself 
at an elegant Mansion House opposite the falls and feel as 
much at ease as I should at my father's, but I feel myself at 
a great distance from home. I have not been attacked with 
the disease of homesickness. ^ rr.-,- ■ 

October 20. I was misinformed last evening, ihis is 
the Niagara Pavilion. We have a delightful prospect here. 
The land is green and smooth. We have an elegant view 
of the Niagara River. Spent the morning in rambling about 
the banks of the river and viewing the falls. The most superb 
and grandest sight I ever beheld, I never saw any language 
that could describe the half that is to be seen here on the 
Canadian side. It is much the better prospect on the west 
side This afternoon we again seated ourselves m the stage 
and rode to Waterloo, opposite Black Rock. Here we 
crossed the Niagara River, bidding Canada adieu. I was 
much pleased with the attention we met with and the manner 
in which I spent my time there. Black Rock is a small 



328 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

village. It was burned by his majesty's officers during the 
last war. This evening we rode to Buffalo, put up at the 
Eagle Tavern. It was dark when we came in so we shall not 
walk out this evening. Took supper in the dining room. 
It is the most splendid room of the kind I ever saw in the 
country. The paper that covered the walls represented a 
hunting party of ladies and gentlemen. The ceilings were 
high, the room spacious and the furniture elegant. 

October 21. Have just returned from a walk and find 
Buffalo to be a pleasant place. The houses are generally 
large and handsome. There is a church here that is not 
finished, which will be one of the finest churches I have ever 
seen. The court house is an elegant building. It is brick 
and painted lead color with a row of white pillars in front and 
edged with white. We again set out on a stage ride about 
nine. It began to rain in an hour or two. The roads were 
considerably muddy. We took dinner at Batavia. This 
is a neat little village. We stopped a short time at Leroy, 
which is a pleasant village. At Leroy the sun set and it had 
ceased to rain, but a fog came over, which made it very dark, 
and we had fifteen miles to ride before we reached Avon, 
where we expected to spend the Sabbath. We arrived there 
about ten after a tedious ride. This evening we crossed the 
Genesee River, during our ride. This morning we saw a 
young bear and fox. The bear was cross, but the fox was 
very quick and sly. The next time we stopped we saw a 
young deer. It was very gentle and came into the house 
and associated with the family like a pet lamb; saw an 
Indian and his lady, who appeared to be in good circum- 
stances. They were mounted on a pair of fine horses and 
dressed in gay attire with feathers and pink and red trim- 
mings. 

October 22. Sunday morning. It being foggy and two 
miles from Avon Church, I believe we shall not attend 
church to-day. Brother Oliver attended the Methodist 
Church. 

October 23. A clear, frosty morning. We are again on 
our way towards home. Called at Bloomfield. Here we 
heard the report of the Avon Springs, sometimes they are 
called Sulphur Springs from the strong sulphurous smell. 
They are said to have stronger medicinal qualities than the 
Saratoga waters, and are a certain cure for rheumatism, and 
indeed for every disease, but consumption. In this morn- 
ing's ride we again came to Canandaigua, taking the same 



A Journey by Stage in 1826 329 

route that we came out on. Canandaigua appears much 
better than when we passed through it before. We took 
dinner at Geneva. On leaving Geneva we took the north 
road instead of the lake road and passed through Waterloo, a 
small, but neat village. I think there is a prospect of this 
place growing much larger, as there are great opportunities 
for water-works here. They have commenced a canal beside 
the Seneca River, which leads to the Seneca Lake. There 
are several mills situated on this river. Since they changed 
horses the last time the driver has run them several times 
and once we came very near being upset off of a bridge four 
or five feet high. This evening we crossed the Cayuga Lake 
again on a bridge and had a good view of the lake. The lake 
above the bridge appears something like the western part of 
the sound, but that below is diiTerent from any view I ever 
saw. It is very wide at one place and we could look out of 
sight of land. We arrived at Auburn about nine. 

October 24. Had a call from Mr. Enoch Mead. Heard 
from home for the first time. My relatives are well, but 
some of my acquaintances are sick, and one has died. Mr. 
Mead invited us to visit the theological seminary, and we 
accepted the invitation. We saw the library, which con- 
tains three thousand volumes, and had a pleasant walk in the 
garden. Left Auburn at eleven and arrived at Mrs. N. Lyon's 
at four o'clock. 

October 25, 26 and 27. Were spent visiting friends and 
relatives at Genoa. 

October 28. Spent last night at Mr. Holmes', called at 
Deacon Lyon's, rode to Ludlowville and dined with Mr. 
Curtis. Then rode to Danby and spent the night at Mr. 
Beers'. In our ride to-day we passed through Ithaca. It is 
a pleasant growing village and has a larger proportion of 
public buildings than is usual. Mr. Beers has a pleasant, 
neat situation. 

October 29. The weather is pleasant and mild this 
morning. This was unexpected yesterday, as it then was 
chilly and stormy. Attended church with Mr. Beers' family. 
Heard Dr. Beers preach from Isaiah, sixth chapter and ninth 
verse. In the afternoon heard Mr. Finna preach from Mat- 
thew, twelfth chapter and thirtieth verse. When we returned 
home it rained in torrents and the wind blew a gale. 

October 30. Another pleasant morning, but cool. We 
are expecting Mr. and Mrs. Holly to call for us to proceed on 
our homeward journey. Called at Mr. J. Beers'. He has an 



330 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

interesting lady. Mr. and Mrs. Holly came before we 
returned. After dinner we set out taking leave of Mr. 
Beers' family. This being the last family of our acquaint- 
ance in this vicinity. The idea of returning to my friends 
again gave me pleasure, but still I felt a reluctance, which I 
gave no reason for. We found the roads muddy. In this 
country we saw great quantities of black logs and stumps. 
Our road lay between two ranges of mountains that were 
covered with pines, cedars and hemlocks. We frequently 
came in sight of the Owego River. This evening we passed 
through a beautiful grove of pine trees. Arrived at Owego 
after dark, 

October 31, A very pleasant morning, which makes 
Owego appear very pleasant. The houses are generally 
large and painted white. The church and court house are 
fine buildings. We left Owego this morning, passed through 
Nanticoke and Chenango Forks. The last is an agreeable 
looking village, is very neat and a place of considerable 
business. We forded the Chenango Creek here, although 
there was a good bridge. We entered into the spirit of the 
village and did our part toward bringing the bridge com- 
pany to terms. We continued our ride through a pine 
country in a valley with mountains on each side until we 
came to the great bend in the Susquehanna River, We 
crossed the river and came into the State of Pennsylvania, 
We found here a very different road. We were crossing the 
hills and mountains continuously. Reached the borders of 
New Milford, where we spent the night, 

November i. What a change in the weather. This 
morning it rains hard, and appears like the commencement 
of a week's storm, but about twelve it ceased to rain and we 
set out again, I was disappointed at seeing New Milford, 
There are a few handsome houses, but no village. There is 
no cessation to the hills. We were continuously ascending 
or descending them, I do not think we travelled half a mile 
on level ground to-day, and to finish we ascended Elk Moun- 
tain and put up for the night, feeling fatigued, but am well. 
We saw a curiosity to-day, which excited considerable merri- 
ment. It was an ox harnessed before a wagon. The driver 
said he had set up a new line of stages. My gallant observed 
it was an opposition which he consented to, 

November 2, Passed the remainder of a dismal range of 
mountains. They make muddy and bad travelling. The 
ground where it is not covered with bushes is covered with 



A Journey by Stage in 1826 331 

black or moss-grown logs. Indeed I saw nothing that was 
pleasant. At eight this morning we came to Belmont. This 
is pleasant, but not as agreeable as Pleasant Mount one 
mile farther. I have been informed that on Monday of this 
week two men were hunting. One of them had shot a deer 
and was dressing it, when he was discovered by the other and 
taken to be a deer. He instantly shot him through the 
breast and he died immediately. Deers, bears, wolves, 
panthers and foxes are not uncommon here. At Pleasant 
Mount, we took the old turnpike road, that was not so hilly, 
nor so muddy, but led through a desolate and barren coun- 
try which was more disagreeable than we travelled through 
yesterday. Bethany is the first village we saw in this state. 
It is small, has a church, academy and court house. This 
was the only church we saw in the State of Pennsylvania, 
and the only neat and flourishing village. This afternoon 
we rode beside the Dy berry Creek for several miles, and after 
travelling until evening we passed the Lackawaxen River, 
where we put up for the night. They have it in contempla- 
tion to make a canal beside this river for the purpose of 
obtaining coal from some of the mountains. 

November 3. A clear morning and we set out early and 
rode five miles, and then came out on the " Mountrose Turn- 
pike. " This road I have been wishing to see ever since we 
left Owego. Our friend Mr. J. Beers advised us to take the 
"Mountrose Turnpike." When we were at Owego, we 
were advised by a number to take the "New Burge," so we, 
thinking those nearest knew the best, took their advice and 
to my sorrow for we had a dull and unpleasant road. Took 
dinner at Milford. This place and Bethany are the only 
villages we saw in this state. A short distance from Milford 
we crossed the Delaware River on a flat ferry-boat. They 
were building a noble bridge over the river. We now came 
into the State of New Jersey and found the land appeared 
much more productive. We travelled to Franklin, where 
we spent the night. 

November 4. This morning we rode through Sparta and 
"Berkshire" and after riding a few miles farther we came on 
the side of a mountain, which was from fifty to sixty feet 
down a precipice and as many feet higher than the road and 
in this frightful situation we travelled some distance. Dover 
is small, but full of manufactories, iron factories in particu- 
lar. A few miles back we passed an iron mine from whence 
they were taking the ore and conveying it to the furnaces. 



332 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Hanover is the next place of any size. Here is a neat little 
church, the first one we have seen in New Jersey, or in a 
day and a half's ride. Orange is a pleasant village and larger 
than any we have seen since we left the State of New York. 

November 5. We rode this morning to Newark. This 
is a larger place than any we have seen in some days. It will 
almost compare with Utica as to size, but not as to business, 
Newark is large and elegant and is more than commonly 
pleasant in its appearance. On leaving Newark we took the 
Hoboken Road and passed over the Passaic River. We had 
a delightful ride. The road was hard and smooth, made of 
gravel with a row of willow trees on each side. It is said 
that this road is thronged with Yorkers through the simimer 
season. We arrived at Hoboken about one o'clock and 
crossed over to New York, and with pleasing emotions 
hastened to our friends. 

November 6. Left New York about two o'clock and 
arrived home in the evening in a storm of rain. 

A weekly packet, or stage boat, was established between 
New York and Mianus from the landing above the bridge, as 
early as 1696; from Cos Cob in 1710; and from Rocky Neck 
at the landing near the mouth of Horseneck Brook in 1725. 
These boats were fitted up to carry passengers and many 
availed themselves of this mode of travel to and from the 
City of New York. The principal purpose of these boats, 
however, was to carry produce from the Town of Greenwich 
to the city, and at one time there were two boats running 
from Mianus, three from Cos Cob, and two from Rocky Neck. 
In the early days potatoes were the staple crop and during 
the potato season as many as twenty-eight thousand bushels 
of this product have been shipped from the Town of Green- 
wich to the City of New York in one week. It was not an 
unusual sight to see a line of carts, each containing fifty 
bushels of potatoes, extending from the landing at Cos Cob 
to the Hub, waiting for a chance to unload. The potato 
crop in the Town of Greenwich frequently controlled the 
price in the New York market. Later on, after the farms 
were well cleared of trees and underbrush, a variety of crops, 
including hay and grain, as also poultry, cattle, sheep, and 



Packet Boats 333 

swine were raised. Shipments of poultry by these market 
boats near Thanksgiving and Christmas have been as high 
as four thousand pounds for one week ; hay two hundred and 
ten tons ; and butter one thousand and five hundred pounds, 
each during one week. After the Civil War apples were 
extensively raised and shipments of these for one week have 
been as high as six thousand and five hundred barrels. The 
orchards have since been ruined by the canker worm and the 
San Jose scale. The last market boat that ran from Cos Cob 
was the E. M. J. Beatty, Captain Stephen Ferris, which made 
her last trip in 1890. The George and Edgar, Captain 
Chauncey Smith, made her last trip in 1894, and the James 
K. Polk, Captain John L. Lockwood, ran a season or two 
longer and then was discontinued. At Rocky Neck, The 
Greenwich and New York Navigation Company now rims a 
tri-weekly freight boat to New York. At the present time 
more produce is shipped into the Town of Greenwich than 
there is shipped out of it. 

Packet Boats running from Mianus. 

Vessel. Captain. 

Unknown, Samuel Peck. 

Unknown, Nathaniel Peck. 

Emeline, Henry Whelpley. 

Caroline Peck, Solomon Peck. 

Adaline, Uriah Lockwood. 

Little Phebe, Stephen Morrell. 

Edge Elnora, Jacob Morrell. 

William S. Horner, David Ferris. 

William S. Horner, Andrew J. Newman. 

Milton, John L. Lockwood. 

George and Edgar, Chauncey Smith. 

James K. Polk, John L. Lockwood. 

Packet Boats running from Cos Cob. 

Vessel. Captain. 

Unknown, Nathaniel Close. 

Unknown, WiUiam Knapp. 



334 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Vessel. 

Plough Boy, 

Tradesman, 

Ann Maria, 

Billy Martin, 

Sarah Bush, 

Telegraph, 

Confidence, 

Fashion, 

Telegraph, 

Stella, ^ 

Stella, 

J. C. R. Brown, 

President, 

President, 

Deep River, 

E. M. J. Beatty, 



Captain. 

Robert Clark. 
Robert Clark. 
Robert Clark. 
Robert Clark. 
Ard Knapp. 
Ard Knapp. 
Charles Stud well. 
James Waring. 
George W. Marshall. 
George W. Marshall. 
George W. Brush. 
George W. Marshall. 
George W. Marshall. 
John Marshall. 
William Scott. 
Stephen Ferris. 



Packet Boats running from Rocky Neck. 



Vessel. 

Unknown, 

Unicorn, 

George Washington, 

Theodore, ^ 
Theodore, 
Ann Amelia, 
Ann Amelia, 
Mary Willis,^ 
Telegraph, ■* 
Theodore, 
Comet, 
Deep River, 
Locomotive, ^ 
Locomotive, 



Captain. 

Daniel Smith. 
Daniel Merritt. 
Daniel Merritt 

Augustus Lyon. 
Daniel Merritt. 
Caleb W. Merritt. 
Wilhs J. Merritt. 
Caleb W. Merritt. 
WilHs J. Merritt. 
Lewis A. Merritt. 
Caleb W. Holmes. 
Luther Holmes. 
William Scott. 
Caleb W. Holmes. 
Charles H. Holmes. 



and 



I Built at Palmer and Duff's Shipyard, launched October i, i860. 
' Built on Pipen Island at Rocky Neck. 

3 Built on the shore of the Mianus River at Indian Field, launched April 
10, 1837. 

* Built on the westerly shore of Indian Harbor, near Davis' Mill, in 1840. 
5 Built at Pahner and Duff's Shipyard in 1850. 



Steamboats 335 

Vessel. Captain. 

Lizzie A . Towle, Charles H. Holmes. 

David Nelson, Charles H. Holmes. 

Mennucatuck, Charles H. Holmes. 

The first line of steamboats on Long Island Sound was 
established on the twenty-first day of March, 1815, when the 
Fulton arrived at New Haven from New York with thirty 
passengers. The trip took eleven and one half hours and it 
was the first one of the semi- weekly trips between New York 
and New Haven arranged to be made by this boat. 

Just when the first steamboat commenced stopping at 
Rocky Neck (Greenwich) is not definitely known, but as 
near as can be ascertained there was a boat running from 
there to New York a few years after the above date. Among 
the boats were the Nimrod, Oliver Wolcott, Fairfield, Cricket, 
John Marshall, Norwalk, Stamford, and Cataline. They were 
either from Norwalk or Stamford. The Cataline ran until 
shortly after the close of the Civil War, when William M. 
Tweed located in Greenwich and built the Americus Club 
House on the point where the residence of Elias C. Benedict 
now stands. William M. Tweed was the principal organizer 
of the Greenwich and Rye Steamboat Company, which was 
incorporated on the sixth day of March, 1866, under the 
joint-stock laws of the State of Connecticut with a capital 
stock of $75,000.00, of which $70,000.00 was paid in. A 
great deal of this stock was sold to the residents of Greenwich. 
Mr. Tweed, however, retained two hundred shares. The 
ofiicers of the company were Captain Thomas Mayo, Presi- 
dent; and Sanford Mead, Secretary. The principal object 
of this company was to run a steamboat to New York daily 
and return. It purchased the famous John Romer, which 
was built by Harlan and Hollings worth, and originally cost 
$50,000.00, but as her owners were financially embarrassed 
the company obtained her for $35,000.00. The boat com- 
menced running in 1866 and was said to have been the fastest 
one on the sound. Stephen G. White was the captain and 



336 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Billy Witherwax the pilot. The John Romer was exceedingly 
popular and it was not an unusual sight to see between two 
hundred and three hundred passengers disembark at Rocky 
Neck on pleasant days. The gross receipts for the first year 
were $21,763.15, expenses $21,417.28. This boat ran two 
seasons, after which she was sold. After this, arrangements 
were made to have the Norwalk, or Stamford, boat stop. 
Among the number were the Ella, she ran foul of a spar 
standing in a sunken vessel in the Hell Gate and sank, 
Stamford, Shippan, Nellie White, and the Shady Side. 

Captain Charles H. Holmes ran the steamer Greenwich 
for the seasons of 1879 and 1880, and then returned to sailing 
vessels, which he continued to run until 1886, when that 
mode of transportation was permanently discontinued by him. 
The steamer Maid of Kent was then placed on the line and 
was run continuously by him until the tenth day of July, 1902, 
when she was succeeded by the General Putnam. After the 
death of Captain Charles H. Holmes, on the seventeenth day 
of March, 1903, his son, Frank J. Holmes, succeeded him in 
the business and ran the General Putnam as her captain until 
April, 1907, when the passenger service was discontinued, 
and a line exclusively for freight established. 

In 1908, The Greenwich and New York Navigation Com- 
pany was incorporated with a capital of $25,000.00, which 
took over the business of Captain Holmes. The officers of 
this company are (191 1), William J. Smith, President; 
David K. Allen, Vice-President; Amos W. Avery, Secretary; 
James Maher, Treasurer; and Frank J. Holmes, General 
Manager. The freight boat Sarah Thorp has been running 
since April, 1907. 

Another mode of travel and transportation was intro- 
duced on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1848, when 
the New York and New Haven Railroad Company ran its 
first passenger train through the Town of Greenwich, and 
opened the line for traffic the following month. The road 
was originally single track and the motive -power steam. 



Trolley Line 337 

Double-tracking from New Haven to New Rochelle was 
commenced in 1851 and completed in 1852, Four-tracking 
from Port Chester to New Rochelle was commenced in 1885. 
The original layout through the Town of Greenwich was 
straightened, grades reduced, and four- tracking commenced 
in 1893. The motive-power between New York and Stam- 
ford was changed to electricity in 1907, the electricity for 
this zone being generated at the power-house, which is 
located just south of the railroad tracks at Cos Cob. 

Trolley Line. 

Incorporated, 1893. 
Charter amended in 1897, 1899, 1901, 1903, and 1905. 

The Greenwich Tramway Company was incorporated by 
an act of the General Assembly passed in 1893, when it was: 

Resolved that William J. Smith, Noah C. Rogers, R. 
Jay Walsh, John Dayton, Heusted W. R. Hoyt and Whit- 
man S. Mead, together with such persons as may be asso- 
ciated with them, are hereby constituted a body politic and 
corporate by the name of The Greenwich Tramway Com- 
pany. 

The time for organization was extended in 1895. 

Construction work was commenced in the spring of 1901, 
and the first trolley car was run into the Town of Greenwich 
from Port Chester on the fifteenth day of August, 1901. As 
fast as sections of the line were completed, they were opened 
for traffic. The trolley lines in the Towns of Stamford and 
Greenwich, and in the Village of Port Chester, were author- 
ized to be merged into one company by an act of the General 
Assembly passed in 1903, called The New York and Stam- 
ford Street Railway Company. This company was in turn 
absorbed by the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Com- 
pany in 1905. 

The Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company was 
originally known as The Gas Supply Company, which was 



33^ Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

incorporated in 1 895 ; name changed in 1 899 to the Connecti- 
cut Lighting and Power Company ; and name again changed 
in 1 90 1 to the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company. 

Business Centres. 

Greenwich, Old Town, now known as Sound Beach, 
never attained any prominence as a business centre. The 
inhabitants at that place usually transacted such business as 
was necessary for their comfort and maintenance at Stamford. 

Postal communications between New York and Boston 
were first established in 1673, and Dumpling Pond, now 
known as North Mianus, being on the King's Highway, 
became the first business centre of the town. It was here 
that the first mills in the town were built, and just above 
where the first packet boat made its landing. It supported 
two taverns and a general store. It retained its prestige 
until 1788, when the old bridge at Mianus was rebuilt and 
made into a cart and wagon bridge. The Post Road was 
then changed to run through Mianus and to cross the river 
at that point. Mianus then became the business centre of 
the town and retained its prestige for over one hundred 
years. It maintained three general stores, a lumber yard, 
a grist-mill, and a tavern. On the arrival and departure of 
the market boats it was a scene of great activity with its 
crowd of farmers with their loads of produce, who purchased 
their supplies at one of the general stores. The market 
boats also made connection with the stages for the North and 
East. After 1885, the business began to fall off, owing to so 
much produce being used for home consumption, and after 
the last market boats stopped running, in 1896, the place 
presented quite a deserted appearance, the business having 
gradually drifted over to Horseneck, now known as the 
Borough of Greenwich. 

Cos Cob was next in prominence to Mianus and at one 
time had two general stores and a grist-mill, but with its three 
market boats it is probable that, occasionally, a larger volume 




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of business was transacted here than at Mianus, Like Mianus, 
the business has gone to the Borough of Greenwich. 

East Port Chester has always been more of a residential 
than a business centre. Its development commenced in 
about 1853, and it has built up so quickly that it now sup- 
ports four different churches, the German Lutheran, the 
Danish Lutheran, the Slovak Lutheran, and the Roman 
Catholic. In 1899, James J. Nedley, a police officer, was 
assigned to patrol the streets for the first time. This village 
is still growing rapidly. 

At the time the Borough of Greenwich, formerly Horse- 
neck, was incorporated in 1854, there were on Greenwich 
Avenue only three or four small stores and a couple of meat 
markets. Very little, however, of the charm of this delight- 
ful place was known prior to the advent of William M. 
Tweed, who located here soon after the Civil War. He 
first built the Americus Club House on the point where the 
residence of Elias C. Benedict now stands ; on the fifth day of 
January, 1867, he obtained a lease of the grounds, consisting 
of about eight acres, for seven years; organized the Green- 
wich and Rye Steamboat Company in 1866, which purchased 
the famous John Romer to make daily trips from Rocky 
Neck to New York; later built a palatial residence in the 
centre of the borough on the property now owned by Mrs. 
Anderson, and in many other ways started business activity 
in the borough. After the collapse of the Americus Club, 
the club house was remodelled and run as the Indian Harbor 
Hotel until 1895, when the property was sold to Elias C. 
Benedict. This hostelry was a rendezvous for many promi- 
nent New Yorkers, some of whom recognized the advantages 
the town offered as a place of residence and located here. 
It was not, however, until after 1886 that the Borough of 
Greenwich obtained the supremacy over either Mianus or Cos 
Cob as a business centre. Its growth during the last fifteen 
years has been remarkable and beyond the expectations of 
the most extreme optimists. It is now commercially, politi- 
cally, and financially the centre of the Town of Greenwich. 



340 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Industries. 

The principal industry is farming, although at present 
the farms are gradually being merged into large estates, or 
cut up into plots for residential purposes. There are, how- 
ever, a few manufactories. 

THE GREENWICH IRON WORKS. 

Reference, Greenwich Graphic, Feb. 8, 1908. 

The Greenwich Iron Works, more familiarly known as 
the Rolling Mills, were located on the Mianus River a short 
distance above the Steep Hollow (North Mianus) District 
Schoolhouse, and were started in 1829 by Robert Cox, who 
had been an ironworker in England. He soon after took 
in his brother, William Cox, as partner, and the firm was 
known as the Cox Brothers. It, however, was not a financial 
success. Douglass and Gold soon succeeded them, with 
indifferent success for a time, when Mr. Roberts took posses- 
sion of the mill and ran it. It was afterwards bought by 
James H. Holden, and Barrington Hicks, who was well 
known in this vicinity, was superintendent of it until 1857. 
That was the year of the great panic and the mill succumbed 
under the financial stress. 

John Hughes then made a contract with Holden to run 
the mill on shares, or something of that kind, from 1857 to 
1 86 1. The mill then turned out bar iron for tires, horse- 
shoe nails, rods, and axe iron. In 1861, at the time the Civil 
War broke out, Mr. Hughes took in Lorenzo Finney as a 
partner, and they made a specialty of spike iron. Later Mr. 
Finney handled the entire business and made his contract 
direct with Mr. Holden. From 1861 to 1864 spike iron rose 
in price from $60 to $200 per ton, and Mr. Holden made 
$75,000 net in the year 1864, when he got the output of these 
mills. 

After the war closed prices began to drop and he lost 
heavily, and the mill changed hands again, and was bought 
by Pettit, Ayres, and Davenport. They were the owners of 



Industries 341 

the Stillwater Rolling Mills, situated on the Rippowam River, 
in Stamford, In the fall of 1879 business began to run 
behind, owing to the fact that other large mills had been 
established at tide water, and this mill was too far away to 
compete with them, because of the additional cost for 
cartage, and the mill was abandoned in the spring of 1880. 

THE WIRE MILL. 

Reference, Greenwich Graphic, Feb. 8, 1908. 

The Wire Mill, which was located just a short distance 
below the Rolling Mills, was always owned by the same 
people who controlled the Rolling Mills. At first it was used 
for making fine wire and pump chains. At the time hoop- 
skirts were in the height of fashion, 1859 to 1868, this mill 
was kept busy making hoopskirt wire. After the passing of 
the hoopskirt the mill soon closed down, which was probably 
in 1868. 

swan's paper mill 
Reference, Greenwich Graphic, Aug. 15, 1908. 

Swan's Paper Mill was located on the Mianus River 
between the Steep Hollow (North Mianus) District School- 
house and the Rolling Mills. It was built by Walter Swan 
about 1800, and a very fine quality of linen paper was manu- 
factured by this mill, which was used for ledgers and writing 
paper. Mr. Swan died in 1825, and his widow and son ran 
the mill until it was destroyed by fire a few years later. 

A sawmill was soon thereafter erected on the same site 
by Henry Cox, who married Mr. Swan's daughter. Charles 
Stevens put in some lathes in a portion of the building, which 
were used in making axe handles and spokes for carriage 
wheels. The supply of suitable hickory for this purpose 
soon gave out and the enterprise was abandoned. 

Later George Peabody made a hand sewing-machine 
here, which turned with a crank, and sold for five dollars. 
Although he made a very good thing of it, he, too, passed 
along with the rest. 



342 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Soon after that, Simon Ingersoll, the famous inventor, 
who probably made the first automobile in this country, 
occupied the old mill, but his son, S. C. Ingersoll, succeeded 
him in a short time. The son passed along, too, after a 
short stay, and a Mr. Carter occupied it in the sixties and 
used the mill for his machines for grinding shoddy, which 
made so many fortunes during the Civil War. The shoddy 
business came to an end about 1869. Mr. Cox then took 
possession of the mill and converted it into a country cider-, 
saw-, and feed-mill, and it remained the same until destroyed 
by fire during the summer of 1909. 

THE RIPPOWAM WOOLLEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1895. 

The Rippowam Woollen Manufacturing Company com- 
menced the manufacture of plush carriage robes and horse 
blankets in January, 1896, at North Mianus, and continued 
in business until November, 1899, when it was dissolved. 

THE MIANUS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1899. 

The Mianus Manufacturing Company on the second day 
of November, 1899, purchased the plant and machinery 
which was formerly operated by the Rippowam Woollen 
Mantifacturing Company, at North Mianus. 

This plant is located on the site of the old Rolling Mills 
and was erected for the special purpose of the manufacture of 
plush carriage robes and horse blankets. The officers of 
the company are (191 1), Thomas I. Raymond, President; 
Whitman S. Mead, Vice-President; Minor D. Randall, 
Secretary ; and Frederick A. Springer, Treasurer and General 
Manager. 

Under efficient management, competent workmen, and 
the maintenance of the quality of the product, the business 
has rapidly increased and the product is distributed in every 
state and territory in the United States. An extensive line 



Industries 343 

of automobile robes has been added and every desirable 
quality and style to meet the demand of the trade is being 
introduced. Thousands of yards of plush are sold to manu- 
facturers of fur robes for lining purposes, and also for the 
making of velour gloves. 

In 1907 the company introduced the manufacture of 
imitation fur fabrics, which are so realistic in appearance and 
quality as to successfully imitate natural furs, and this new 
product has since been largely used in the manufacture of 
infants', children's and misses' cloaks, as well as for coat 
linings and imitation fur robes. At the present time practi- 
cally all the large jobbing manufacturers of cloaks in the 
United States are using the product of The Mianus Manu- 
facturing Company, which has been trademarked. The 
business has grown so rapidly as to compel largely increased 
facilities and a most satisfactory volume of business is now 
successfully distributed by the company, which has over 
sixty thousand square feet of floor space devoted exclusively 
to specialties handled by it. 

The carriage and automobile robe output is contracted 
for yearly by one of the largest horse-blanket houses in the 
country, that distributes the robes and blankets through a 
force of forty-eight efficient salesmen. The plush goods and 
imitation fur fabrics are sold direct by the company, which 
is now well established on a sound substantial basis, and 
good dividends are being paid to its stockholders. 

VOLUNTEER ROCK DRILL COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1891. 
Sound Beach. 

The Volunteer Rock Drill Company was incorporated on 
the twenty-fourth day of March, 1891, as a joint-stock com- 
pany for the purpose of manufacturing steam drills. It 
continued in business at Sound Beach for about five years 
and then was abandoned. 



344 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

THE RIVERSIDE WATER COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1903. 

The Riverside Water Company was incorporated by an 
act of the General Assembly passed in 1903, whereby it was: 

Resolved, that William J, Tingue, Nathaniel Witherell 
and Henry H. Adams, all of Greenwich, in Fairfield County, 
be and they are hereby, with their successors and assigns, 
created a body politic and corporate by the name of The 
Riverside Water Company [etc.J. 

CONTINENTAL MOWER AND REAPER COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1865. 
Riverside. 

The Continental Mower and Reaper Company was incor- 
porated on the thirteenth day of September, 1865, as a joint- 
stock company with a capital stock of $100,000.00 for the 
purpose of manufacturing the Continental Mower and the 
Continental Reaper, and all other agricultural implements. 
A large amount of this stock was taken by the inhabitants of 
the Town of Greenwich and Shadrach M. Brush was elected 
its president. It erected a large plant on the easterly side 
of the Mianus River a short distance south of the draw- 
bridge and manufactured a considerable number of the 
mowers and reapers. Many of the farmers in the town used 
the machines. The undertaking, however, was not a success, 
and the property was sold in 1867 to Martin H. Shepard, 
who converted the plant into a cottonseed-oil factory. This 
was continued until about 1870, when the plant was aban- 
doned and the business removed to New Orleans. 

THE MIANUS MOTOR WORKS. 

Incorporated, 1904, 
formerly the 

BROOKLYN RAILWAY SUPPLY COMPANY. 

Mianus. 

The Brooklyn Railway Supply Company was incor- 
porated imder and by virtue of the laws of the State of New 



Industries 345 

York on the second day of December, 1880, for the purpose 
of manufacturing railway sweepers, apparatus, furniture, 
and such other manufactured articles as are required and 
used by railway companies. It located at Mianus in the 
summer of 1890, where it continued in business until the 
twenty-ninth day of December, 1904, when it was merged 
into The Mianus Motor Works, which was incorporated on 
the same day, under and by virtue of the laws of the State of 
Connecticut, with a capital stock of $100,000.00, for the pur- 
pose of the manufacture and sale of engines, motors, machin- 
ery and the necessary attachments for the application of 
power; the manufacture and sale of wood and metal vessels 
and boats, and the sale of motors, machinery, and boats, as 
the agents for others. The erection and maintenance, under 
previously acquired rights, of dams and the grinding of grain, 
etc. 

The construction of a larger plant was commenced on the 
eighth day of August, 1910, in the City of Stamford, which is 
now in operation. 

Officers, 191 1, George Gray, President; Frederick A. 
Hubbard, Vice-President and General Counsel ; Augustus P. 
Avery, Secretary; and Charles B. Allyn, Treasurer. 

PALMER AND DUFF's SHIPYARD. 

Cos Cob. 

Palmer and Duff's Shipyard was located at Cos Cob on 
that part of the David Bush property which, during the 
Revolutionary War, was occupied by salt works. In 1848, 
this property was bought by Thomas Gilbert, William 
Cantrell, and John Midwinter and operated as a shipyard. 
John Duff bought the property on the twenty-third day of 
November, 1848. In 1851 he took in as a partner William 
White, and about three years later Charles Bams became a 
partner. The shipyard was operated by the firm of White, 
Bams, and Duff until 1855, when Denom Palmer bought 
out the interests of White and Bams, and the firm became 



34^ Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Palmer and Duff, Silas W., son of Ard Knapp, became a 
member of the firm in 1866, and continued as such until his 
death on the twenty-eighth day of March, 1870, when the 
firm again became Palmer and Duff. The principal business 
of the shipyard was the overhauling, repairing, and building 
of sailing vessels. Owing to the advanced age of the mem- 
bers of the firm, the business was discontinued in 1907, the 
partners being eighty-eight and eighty-three years of age 
respectively. 

PALMER BROTHERS. 

Cos Cob. 

This concern first started in business under the ownership 
of Frank T. Palmer in 1888, at Dumpling Pond, now North 
Mianus, where a plant was erected, and telephone and elec- 
trical supplies were manufactured. A few years later, after 
gasoline came into use as a means of generating power, the 
manufacture of gasoline engines and launches was com- 
menced. In 1 90 1, through efficient management and com- 
petent workmanship, the business had grown to such an 
extent that the plant was too small to satisfactorily turn out 
the work, so another plant was erected at Cos Cob, where 
launches were exclusively manufactured. This plant was 
enlarged in 1905, 1908, and 1909, so that now both gasoline 
engines and launches are manufactured at Cos Cob, and the 
plant at Dumpling Pond only used in a small way. 

The Palmer Brothers have kept right along with the 
march of improvements and are right up to date, and to-day 
are shipping their gasoline engines and launches all over the 
world. 

WILCOX FACTORY. 

Riversville. 

The Wilcox Factory was erected in September, 1828, at 
Riversville, by Josiah Wilcox, formerly of Berlin, Connecti- 
cut, for the manufacture of tinners' tools. The building was 
originally thirty feet by thirty-five feet, but was added to 



Industries 347 

from time to time, as the business increased. In 1858 the 
manufacture of carriage hardware was added. The business 
was continued until 1904, when the factory was abandoned 
on account of competition and extra charge for cartage. 

GEORGE M. REYNOLDS. 

Glenville. 

The main factory building, now occupied by George M. 
Reynolds for the manufacture of blown furs, roundings, etc., 
used in the manufacture of hats, was built by his father, 
Solomon Reynolds, in 1872. The plant was first operated by 
Augustus Lyon, of Weaver Street, and Joseph Carter, now of 
Port Chester, who leased the building from Solomon Rey- 
nolds. They put two or three machines in the building to be 
used for the purpose of making furs for hatters, and ran the 
same for about six months, when they gave up the under- 
taking. Solomon Reynolds bought the machines from Lyon 
and Carter and started manufacturing the same materials. 
He gradually increased the business and at the time of his 
death, in 1900, he was running eight machines. He was 
succeeded by his son, George M. Reynolds, who converted 
also the old grist-mill adjacent, which was built sometime 
prior to the Revolutionary War and abandoned about 1900, 
into a factory for the manufacture of hxrs. There are now 
sixteen machines operated in these two buildings. 

AMERICAN FELT COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1899, New Jersey, 
formerly 

THE HAWTHORNE MILLS COMPANY. 

Glenville. 

It is somewhat uncertain just when a plant for the manu- 
facture of woollen and cotton goods was first erected at 
Glenville. There was, however, a small factory in operation 
at the time Jared Peck conveyed the premises on the easterly 
side of the Byram River to the Byram Manufacturing 



348 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Company on the twelfth day of September, 1814. The 
Byram Manufacturing Company ran the mill until the first 
day of May, 1829, when it sold out to George L. Cornell and 
Samuel G. Cornell of Brooklyn. Samuel G. Cornell went 
into bankruptcy in 1852, and the property was conveyed to 
Ralph Henry Isham, who changed the name to the Glenville 
Woollen Company. He ran the mill for two or three years, 
but was unable to make it pay, and sold out on the twentieth 
day of November, 1855, to Augustus Whitlock. He ran the 
mill until the twenty-fifth day of May, 1864, when he sold 
out to Amos D. Lefevre, who took his son Samuel in the 
business with him in 1868. They ran it until about 1874, 
when it was sold to Hoyt, Sprague and Company, who 
changed the name to the Glenville Mills. In 1875 the 
property was attached to secure the payment of the sum of 
$30,000.00 and bought in by Nathan Hodgson of Granby, 
Oswego County, New York, who sold the same on the 
sixteenth day of August, 1875, to William J. Tingue of Pater- 
son, New Jersey. He formed the partnership firm of Tingue, 
House and Company, and manufactured woollen, worsted, 
cotton, and mixed goods. They ran it as such until the 
thirteenth day of February, 1892, when it was incorporated 
as a joint-stock company by the name of The Hawthorne 
Mills Company. It ran as such until the eighth day of 
February, 1899, when the American Felt Company, a cor- 
poration created early in 1899, under and by virtue of 
the laws of the State of New Jersey, acquired the plant. 
It manufactures felt and machinery cloths at these mills. 

Officers, 191 1, William H. Sweatt, President; Robert F. 
Herrick, Vice-President; George F. Willett, Treasurer; and 
Winthrop D. Smith, Secretary. 

THE GLENVILLE POWER AND WATER COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1903, charter amended in 1909. 

The Glenville Power and Water Company was incor- 
porated by an act of the General Assembly passed in 1903, 
whereby it was : 



Industries 349 

Resolved, that William J. Tingue, Nathaniel Witherell 
and Henry H. Adams, all of Greenwich, with such other 
persons as shall be associated with them, are, with their 
successors and assigns, hereby constituted a body politic and 
corporate, under the name of The Glenville Power and 
Water Company, etc. 

RUSSELL, BURDSALL AND WARD BOLT AND NUT COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1901, New York, 
formerly 

RUSSELL, BURDSALL AND WARD. 

Pemberwick. 

The property at Pemberwick was acquired by John C. 
Sanford about 1830, who erected thereon a button factory, 
which he operated for a while, then sold out to Isaac D. 
Russell and went to Stamford. Mr. Russell associated with 
him two partners and continued the business under the style 
of Russell, McKay and Beach. On the sixteenth day of 
October, 1845, Ellwood Burdsall and WilHam E. Ward, 
composing the firm of Burdsall and Ward, hired a room and 
water power from Russell, McKay and Beach, and started 
their bolt, nut, and screw factory. In 1852 their business 
had increased to such an extent that they admitted Isaac D. 
Russell as an equal partner, he putting in the desired amount 
of funds. The manufacture of buttons was discontinued and 
the screw factory was operated under the well-known partner- 
ship firm of Russell, Burdsall and Ward, composed of Isaac D. 
Russell, Ellwood Burdsall, and Wilham E. Ward. It ran as 
such until the twenty-sixth day of December, 1866, when it 
was incorporated under and by virtue of the laws of the 
State of Connecticut as a joint-stock company, under the 
name of Russell, Burdsall and Ward, with a capital stock of 
$300,000.00, for the purpose of manufacturing bolts, nuts, 
rivets, washers, screws, and other hardware of iron, or other 
metals, etc. This corporation operated the plant until the 
twenty-ninth day of April, 1901, when it was merged with 



350 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

the Port Chester Bolt and Nut Company into the Russell, 
Burdsall and Ward Bolt and Nut Company, a corpora- 
tion created under and by virtue of the laws of the 
State of New York with a capital stock of $2,000,000.00, 
which now operates the plant at Port Chester as well 
as at the one at Pemberwick, and manufactures the same 
articles. 

Officers, 1910, W. L. Ward, President; Samuel Comly, 
Vice-President; R. H. Burdsall, Treasurer; Ellwood Burdsall, 
Secretary; and W. S. Comly, General Sales Agent. 

ABENDROTH BROTHERS. 

Incorporated, 1876, New York. 
East Port Chester and Port Chester. 

This concern was started in 1840 by William P. Aben- 
droth and Philip Rollhaus under the name of the Eagle 
Foundry for the purpose of manufacturing stoves and iron 
cooldng-utensils, Mr. Rollhaus retired from the firm in 
1845, and Mr. Abendroth took in, in his stead, his two broth- 
ers, Augustus and John, and the name of the concern was 
changed to William Abendroth and Brothers. Some years 
later he took in also his brother-in-law, John D. Eraser. John 
Abendroth withdrew from the firm in 1874 and Augustus 
remained until his death in 1882. It was incorporated under 
and by virtue of the laws of the State of New York in 1876, 
under the name of Abendroth Brothers, and now manu- 
factures stoves, coal and gas ranges, furnaces, hot water and 
steam heaters, and plumbers' soil pipe and fittings. The 
main plant is located on the westerly side of the Byram 
River in the Village of Port Chester, and that part of the 
plant in which plumbers' soil pipe and fittings are manu- 
factured is on the easterly side of the same river in the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Ofiicers, 1910, JohnF. Mills, President ; Arthur R. Wilcox, 
Vice-President; Charles I. Smith, Secretary; and Fred W. 
Hoose, Treasurer. 



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GEORGE MERTZ' SONS. 

Incorporated, 1907. 
East Port Chester. 

This concern was organized on the first day of June, 1872, 
as a partnership, by George Mertz and Emil C. Boemer, 
under the firm name of Mertz and Boemer, for the purpose 
of manufacturing building materials. It was incorporated 
on the seventh day of January, 1907, under the name of 
George Mertz' Sons, which continues to maniifacture the 
same materials. 

Officers, 1910, Louis C. Mertz, President; George E. 
Mertz, Vice-President; Frank C. Mertz, Secretary; and 
James H. MacCullough, Treasurer. 

NEW LEBANON IRON FOUNDRY. 

East Port Chester. 

This concern was started in 1901 by Joseph A. Taylor 
under the name of the New Lebanon Iron Foundry for the 
purpose of casting parts and fittings for general machinery. 

HAWTHORNE BRASS FOUNDRY. 

East Port Chester. 

This concern was started in 1904 by John Weug under 
the name of the Hawthorne Brass Foundry for the purpose 
of doing general job work in bronze, bell metal, brass, and 
in all kinds of mixtures. 

DISTILLED MINERAL WATER COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1901, New York. 
East Port Chester. 

The Distilled Mineral Water Company was incorporated 
in 1 90 1, under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New 
York, for the purpose of manufacturing carbonated bever- 
ages, ginger ale, sarsaparilla, soda, and all other kinds of soft 
drinks. It is now operated and controlled by Chris P. 
Neilsen. 



352 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

C. IRVING HALE. 

East Port Chester. 

C. Irving Hale commenced the operation of his plant for 
carpet cleaning and upholstering on the thirtieth day of May, 
1902. He also renovates feathers and does cabinet work. 

E. M. MERRITT's shipyard. 

Rocky Neck. 

This shipyard was started in 1858 by Lockwood Clark 
and Thomas Ritch, but was taken over by Augustus Mead 
in the winter of 1862, and then operated by Ephraim M. 
Merritt. He sold out in 1866 to Roswell Ferris and removed 
to Norwalk, Connecticut. The yard was abandoned in 
1871. 

GREENWICH YACHT YARD. 

Rocky Neck. 

This concern started in business under the ownership of 
Joseph E. Montells in 1904, for the purpose of building, 
overhauling, outfitting, and general repairing of yachts of all 
types. 

STERLING FOUNDRY COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1885. 
Rocky Neck. 

The Sterling Foundry Company was incorporated in 1885, 
as a joint-stock company, for the purpose of manufacturing 
castings for gas stoves. It ran for about two years and was 
then abandoned. 

GREENWICH GASLIGHT COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1875. 

The Greenwich Gaslight Company was incorporated by 
an act of the General Assembly passed in 1875, whereby it 
was: 



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Resolved, that Charles Nettleton, Charles H. Nettleton, 
Gilbert Ackerman, John Dayton, William J. Mead, Frank 
Shepard, Zophar Mead, H. W. R. Hoyt and Joseph E. 
Brush, and such other persons as shall associate with them 
for that purpose, are constituted a body politic and cor- 
porate by the name of the Greenwich Gaslight Company, 
etc. 

THE GREENWICH GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHTING COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1885. Amended, 1889. 
Rocky Neck. 

The Greenwich Gas and Electric Lighting Company was 
incorporated by an act of the General Assembly passed in 
1885, whereby it was: 

Resolved, that Robert M. Bruce, A. Foster Higgins, 
John Dayton, George Dayton, Thomas Mayo, Nathaniel 
Witherell, John G. Reynolds and H. W. R. Hoyt are consti- 
tuted a body politic and corporate by the name of The 
Greenwich Gas and Electric Lighting Company, etc. 

This concern was absorbed by the Connecticut Lighting 
and Power Company on the twenty-sixth day of April, 1899, 
and has since been known as the Connecticut Company, and 
now (191 1 ) is called the Housatonic Power Company. 

GREENWICH WATER COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1880. Amended, 1887, 1893, 1901, 1903, and 

1909. 

The Greenwich Water Company was incorporated by an 
act of the General Assembly passed in 1880, whereby it was: 

Resolved, that Elias C. Benedict, William Rockefeller, 
Jeremiah Milbank, Sylvester Mead, Luke A. Lockwood, 
John Voorhis, Philip W. Holmes, Luther P. Hubbard, A. 
Foster Higgins, Allen H. Close and Edwin A. Knapp, be and 
they hereby are, with their successors and assigns made and 
established a corporation by the name of the Greenwich 
Water Company, etc. 



354 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

GREENWICH MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1855. 

The Greenwich Mutual Fire Insurance Company was 
incorporated by an act of the General Assembly passed in 
1855, whereby it was: 

Resolved, that Zenas Mead, Joseph Brush, Samuel Close, 
George J. Smith, Augustus Mead, William White, Thomas 
A. Mead, William A. Ferris, Edward B, Hewes and Shadrach 
M. Brush, and all other persons who may hereafter become 
members of said company in the manner hereinafter pre- 
scribed, be and they hereby are incorporated and made a 
body politic by the name of the Greenwich Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company, etc. 

This corporation was voluntarily dissolved in 1910. 

THE GREENWICH SASH AND DOOR COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1907. 
Rocky Neck. 

The Greenwich Sash and Door Company was incor- 
porated in 1907, for the purpose of manufacturing, buying, 
and selling sashes, doors, blinds, etc. 

Officers, 1910, Joseph Brush, President; Henry Fenn, 
Secretary and Treasurer. 

HARRIE MOREHOUSE, 
SUCCESSOR TO THE FENN & MOREHOUSE CO. 

Borough of Greenwich. 

This concern was started in 1894, for the purpose of 
manufacturing doors, sashes, blinds, and all interior finish. 
In 1905, Harrie Morehouse succeeded The Fenn & More- 
house Co., and continues manufacturing the same articles. 

QUARRIES. 

The first stone quarried in the Town of Greenwich was 
taken from the quarry on Byram Shore, which was opened by 




CAPTAIN HENRY S. LOCKWOOD. 



Industries 355 

William Ritch and Thomas Ritch in 1840. In 1870 John 
Voorhis and Sylvester Hill commenced the operation of quar- 
ries on the Byram Shore and a little later a quarry was opened 
near the old Toll Gate. The business reached its height in 
1900, when owing to the introduction of concrete for build- 
ing and construction purposes it began to decline, but is car- 
ried on now by WiUis and Silas D. Ritch, and Jacob Voorhis. 
The Second Congregational, the Presbyterian, the Epis- 
copal, and the Roman Catholic Churches are all built of 
stone quarried within the Town of Greenwich. 

OYSTERS. 

The cultivation of oysters in this vicinity was first com- 
menced in 1850, when Captain Henry S. Lockwood, then of 
Greenwich, Old Town, but now of Cos Cob, started planting 
shells just before spawning time at the mouth of the Mianus 
River. An examination of the shells in the early fall showed 
that the spawn had set and that young oysters were in the 
process of formation. As soon as these had sufficiently 
matured they were taken up, placed on the market, and the 
ground replanted with fresh shells. He was followed by 
Andrew Ferris, Nelson Studwell, Abraham Brinkerhoff, 
Samuel B. Lockwood, and others. Prior to that time the 
oysters were taken from natural grounds. This was the 
commencement of the development of planted grounds, 
which are now cultivated so extensively and successfully. 
Before the shells, or seed, can be planted on new ground it 
has to be dredged over and the vegetable growth and other 
foreign matter at the bottom removed. The first attempt to 
cultivate oysters was not successful, owing to the destruction 
of the beds by starfish, which killed the young oysters, and 
the undertaking was abandoned. It, however, was started 
again in i860, and has been successfully continued, as means 
have been devised to remove the starfish from the beds 
without disturbing the oysters. In 1878, Captain Henry S. 
Lockwood had built the first steamboat in the United States 
which was especially constructed for the oyster business. 



356 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

In 1849, the General Assembly of the State of Connecti- 
cut passed its first act relative to the planting of oysters and 
the staking out of oyster beds designated by the town 
officials. This act was revised at the May Session, 1855, 
and the General Assembly passed an act authorizing the 
towns to appoint a committee to designate suitable places 
for planting oysters, but ' ' no one person shall have set out to 
him territory exceeding two acres in extent." Under the 
revision of 1881, the law was so changed as to allow of grants 
to any one person of territory to any extent, provided it was 
not unreasonable. It also created the State Shell-Fish Com- 
mission which has general supervision of the oyster industry 
within the state. A few years after this change in the law 
the oyster industry within the Town of Greenwich was at its 
height. There were over twenty men residing in the town, 
who were owners of oyster grounds, which gave employment 
to upwards of one hundred different individuals. The 
decline in the business began about 1890, owing to the culti- 
vation of a better grade of oysters in different localities, 
particularly at Providence, Buzzard's Bay, Cape Cod, Peconic 
Bay, and Gardiner's Bay, so that now there are only a few 
men remaining in the business. Among the number is 
Captain E. Frank Lockwood, who, in 1905, organized the 
Standard Oyster Company, which operates in Long Island 
Sound west of Bridgeport, Peconic Bay, Gardiner's Bay, and 
New York Bay south of Staten Island. It was bought by 
the Andrew Radel Company in 1909, but still operates in 
the same territory. In 1910, Captain E. Frank Lockwood 
purchased a large tract of oyster ground at Rockaway and 
another tract at the east end of Long Island, which he 
expects to develop into one of the best grounds in America. 

THE GREENWICH OBSERVER. 

Established, 1877. 

The first newspaper regularly published in the Town of 
Greenwich was called The Greenwich Observer, and it was 




ERWIN EDWARDS, EDITOR OF "THE GREENWICH GRAPHIC. 



Newspapers 357 

published by Keeler Brothers, editors and proprietors, who 
had an office on the northerly side of Putnam Avenue a short 
distance west of Greenwich Avenue. The first copy was 
issued on the fifteenth day of November, 1877, ^^^ thereafter 
every Thursday. It continued under this management until 
the fourth day of April, 1878, when William Mead Keeler 
became the sole editor and proprietor. It was sold by him 
to B. F. Ashley on the twenty-first day of October, 1880, and 
he in turn sold it to John K. Mead on the twentieth day of 
November, 1880. It continued under the management of 
Mr. Mead, as editor and proprietor, until it was consolidated 
with The Greenwich Graphic on the third day of February, 
1883. 

THE GREENWICH GRAPHIC. 

Established, 1881. 

The first issue of The Greenwich Graphic was published 
on the third day of December, 1 881, by Edwards Brothers, 
editors and proprietors. The office was then on the easterly 
side of Greenwich Avenue about opposite the truck house, 
and it is now on the southerly side of Putnam Avenue just 
west of Greenwich Avenue. It continued under the manage- 
ment of Edwards Brothers until the nineteenth day of July, 
1890, when Erwin Edwards bought out the interest of Lucian 
B. Edwards, and thus became the sole editor and proprietor, 
under whose management it still continues. It is published 
every Friday, and is considered one of the best country 
weeklies published in the State of Connecticut. 

Mr. Edwards, who is also an antiquarian, recognizing 
that Greenwich is rich in Revolutionary lore, has been 
engaged for a number of years collecting material, consist- 
ing of old houses, old mills, and old bridges for a book to 
be pubHshed in the near future. His office is a regular 
curiosity shop of Indian and Revolutionary relics. Among 
his collections is the old stirrup used by General Putnam 
when he rode down the hill, shingles from famous old houses, 
arrow heads, tomahawks, and other rare Indian implements. 



35^ Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

THE GREENWICH NEWS. 

Established, 1888. 

The first issue of The Greenwich News was published on 
the second day of February, 1888, by the Hon. R. Jay 
Walsh, proprietor, and Charles H, Lee, editor. Its office 
was then at No. 173 Greenwich Avenue. On the twentieth 
day of July, 1889, The Greenwich News was sold by Judge 
Walsh to Edwin H. Abrams, who later removed it to his 
building at No. 157 Greenwich Avenue. In the spring of 
1906, it was removed to its present home in the Abrams 
Building at Nos. 221-225 Greenwich Avenue. The present 
editor and proprietor of the paper, Frederick W. Lyon, pur- 
chased it from Mr. Abrams on the fourteenth day of May, 
1906, since which time it has grown from a six-page, seven- 
column paper to a twelve-page, seven-column paper. It is 
issued every Friday afternoon. Mr, Lyon has been con- 
nected with The Greenwich News since August, 1888, when he 
began his apprenticeship as a printer. 

THE GREENWICH PRESS. 

Established, 1910. 

The first issue of The Greenwich Press was published on 
the twelfth day of October, 1910, by Norman Talcott, editor 
and proprietor. Its office is located at No. 175 Greenwich 
Avenue, and the paper is issued weekly on Fridays. The 
editorial council consists of George Barr Baker, Irving 
Bacheller, Richard Lloyd Jones, Lincoln Steffens, Ernest 
Thompson Seton, Gilman Hall, and Julian Street, 

Mr. Talcott commenced his newspaper career as a 
reporter on The Boston Traveller; later was a reporter on The 
Worcester Gazette, The Boston Post, and The Boston American; 
was also associate editor of a small weekly in the State of 
New York, and also another in the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts. On the second day of April, 1905, he took a 
position as reporter on The Greenwich Graphic; on the four- 




FREDERICK W. LYON, EDITOR OF "THE GREENWICH NEWS." 




NORMAN TALCOTT, EDITOR OF "THE GREENWICH PRESS. 



Banks 359 

teenth day of May, 1906, he became associate editor of The 
Greenwich News, and remained with the latter until the last 
of September, 19 10, when he left to start The Greenwich 
Press. 

GREENWICH SAVINGS BANK. 

Established, 1870. 

The Greenwich Savings Bank was organized by Robert 
M. Bruce, Mark Banks, Heusted W. R. Hoyt, John Dayton, 
Benjamin Wright, Willis H. Wilcox, and twenty others during 
the month of August, 1870, and was first opened for business 
on the third day of September, 1870. The bank was first 
located on the northerly side of Greenwich Avenue about 
midway between Church Street and Lafayette Place, and 
was removed to its present quarters on the easterly side of 
Greenwich Avenue in the fall of 1890. Mark Banks was its 
treasurer for twenty-six years. The present officers (1910) 
are: Willis H. Wilcox, President; Nathaniel A. Knapp, ist 
Vice-President; Benjamin Wright, 2d Vice-President; and 
Charles E. Merritt, Secretary and Treasurer. 

THE GREENWICH TRUST COMPANY, 

formerly 

THE GREENWICH TRUST, LOAN AND DEPOSIT COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1886. 

The Greenwich Trust, Loan and Deposit Company was 
incorporated by an act of the General Assembly passed in 
1886, whereby it was: 

Resolved, that Odle C. Knapp, Edwin A. Knapp, Nehe- 
miah H. Husted, Cornelius Mead, Hanford Lockwood, John 
G. Reynolds, Edwin L. Scofield, David H. Clark, Isaac L. 
Mead, George E. Scofield, George G. McNall, Charles E. 
Wilson, Henry M. Brush, John Voorhis, R. Jay Walsh, 
Henry Webb, Henry B. Marshall, etc., are created and estab- 
lished a body politic and corporate by the name of The 
Greenwich Trust, Loan and Deposit Company, etc. 



36o Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

The Trust Company, when it was first opened for business 
on the twelfth day of July, 1887, had its office on the easterly 
side of Greenwich Avenue in the LaForge Building. It 
removed into its present quarters on the fifth day of Feb- 
ruary, 1890. The present officers (1910) are: Robert Jay 
Walsh, President; Alfred A. Rundle, Vice-President; A. W. 
W. Marshall, Vice-President and Secretary; Walter B. Todd, 
Treasurer; and Luther H. Allcom, Trust Officer. 

GREENWICH NATIONAL BANK. 

EstabHshed, 1906. 

The Greenwich National Bank was organized by Charles 
E. Finlay and Josiah W. Place of the City of New York on 
the fifteenth day of April, 1906, and was first opened for 
business on the second day of June, 1906, in the Abrams 
Building, Nos. 221-225 Greenwich Avenue. It removed to 
its present quarters in the Smith Building on the first day of 
August, 1907. The present officers (191 1) are: Oliver D. 
Mead, President; William J. Smith, Vice-President; Robert 
M. Wilcox, Cashier; and Albert F. Rippel, Assistant Cashier. 

Lawyers. 

Adams, Percy D., LL.B., son of Samuel Gardner and 
Sophia Matilda (Demarest) Adams; bom in the City of 
Chicago, 111.; graduate of Columbia Law School, Class of 
1883; admitted to the New York Bar, Nov. 11, 1884; 
removed to Greenwich, Conn., Nov., 1904, and was admitted 
to the Connecticut Bar, June, 1911; married, Apl. 17, 1895, 
Alice H., daughter of Charles H. Pinkham. 

Anderson, Walter Morgan, B.S., son of Thomas and 
Maria (Johnson) Anderson; bom in the Town of Stamford, 
Conn.; graduate of Wesleyan College, Class of 1901 ; settled 
in the Town of Greenwich in 1902 ; took the full course in law 
at the New York Law School; admitted to the Connecticut 



Lawyers 361 

Bar on Jan. 19, 1909, and at the same time opened an office in 
the Borough of Greenwich for the practice of law; married, 
Mch. 29, 1910, Lucretia, daughter of Lyman and Harriet 
(Mead) Mead. 

Brush, Ralph E., LL.B., son of Augustus M. and Sarah 
(Hodgman) Brush ; bom in the Town of Greenwich ; graduate 
of the New York Law School, Class of 1908 ; admitted to the 
New York Bar in Oct., 1908; admitted to the Connecticut 
Bar in July, 1909; practises law in the City of New York. 

BuRNES, Charles Dudley, LL.B., son of Harvey E. and 
Grace L. (Andrews) Bumes; bom in the Town of Kensington, 
Conn,; took part of the academic course at Wesleyan Col- 
lege; graduate of Yale Law School, Class of 1893; admitted 
to the Connecticut Bar on June 28, 1893 ; settled in the Town 
of Greenwich in July, 1894, ^^^ was for a time in the law 
office of Hon. R. Jay Walsh ; opened an office in the Borough 
of Greenwich for the practice of law in July, 1898; Judge of 
the Borough Court of Greenwich since 1897; representative 
to the General Assembly in 1907 and 1909; married, Feb. 6, 
1895, Elizabeth May, daughter of Thomas I. and EHzabeth 
T. Raymond, of South Norwalk, Conn. 

Curtis, Julius B., son of Nichols and Sarah (Bennett) 
Curtis; bom in the Town of Newtown, Conn., Dec. 10, 1825; 
studied law with Hon. Edward Hinman of Southbury, Isaac 
M. Sturges, and Amos S. Treat of Newtown, also at the 
National Law School, Ballston Springs, N. Y. ; admitted to 
the Connecticut Bjlt on Dec. 27, 1850; commenced the prac- 
tice of law in the Town of Greenwich in 1851 ; state senator 
in 1858 and i860; removed to Stamford, Conn., in 1864. 
Among the important law cases with which he has been 
connected was the famous and familiar case of Mead vs, 
Husted, a civil action for buming the bams of Alexander 
Mead of Greenwich. He married, ist, Oct. 30, 1854, Mary, 
daughter of Peter Acker of Greenwich, who died on Feb. 20, 



362 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1884; married, 2d, May 11, 1886, Alice (Kneeland) Grain, 
daughter of Henry and Margaret Kneeland and widow of 
Francis H. Grain. 

Elliott, Richard A., LL.B., son of James and Martha 
Louise (Armstrong) Elliott; bom in the City of Brooklyn, 
New York; graduate of Columbia Law School, Class of 1898 ; 
admitted to the New York Bar in 1898, or 1899; removed to 
the Town of Greenwich in 1907 ; admitted to the Connecticut 
Bar, June, 191 1; representative to the General Assembly in 
1911. 

Fairchild, James B., practised law in the Town of 
Greenwich from 1826 to 1828. 

Fairchild, Robert, practised law in the Town of Green- 
wich from 1824 to 1 84 1. 

Ferris, Clarence Clark, A.B., LL.B., son of Samuel 
H. and Mary (Clark) Ferris; bom in the Town of Greenwich ; 
graduate of Yale College, Class of 1887; graduate of Colum- 
bia Law School, Class of 1892; admitted to the New York 
Bar in 1891 ; admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1908; mar- 
ried, 1st, Jan. 14, 1897, Katherine Dudek, who died on Oct. 
17, 1905; married, 2d, Apl. 16, 1908, Bertha Vincent Odell, 
of New Rochelle, N. Y. ; no children by either wife; practises 
law in the City of New York, 

Ferris, William J., LL.B., son of Jacob Wesley and 
Sarah (Murgatroyd) Ferris ; bom in the Town of Greenwich ; 
graduate of Yale Law School, Class of 1903; admitted to the 
Connecticut Bar in 1903 ; opened an office in the Borough of 
Greenwich for the practice of law in 1904; married, Oct. 16, 
1907, Lydia, daughter of Oliver D. and Cornelia A. (Scofield) 
Mead. 

HoYT, Heusted Warner Reynolds, son of the Rev. 
Warner and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Hoyt; bom in the Town 



Lawyers 363 

of Ridgefield, Conn,, Nov. i, 1842; prepared for college at 
the Greenwich Academy, and entered Columbia College in 
his seventeenth year ; but on account of illness was unable to 
complete the course; studied law in the office of Henry H. 
Owen of the City of New York; admitted to the Bar in 1865, 
and opened an office in the Borough of Greenwich for the 
practice of law shortly thereafter; state senator in 1870 and 
1873; representative to the General Assembly in 1886 and 
1887; Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1887; was 
appointed the first judge of the Borough Court of Greenwich, 
which was created in 1889, and held the office until his death. 

In 1863 he was appointed 2d Lieutenant of Company 
F., 8th Regiment, Connecticut National Guards; was pro- 
moted from one office to another until he was appointed 
Colonel of the 4th Regiment, Connecticut National Guards, 
which command he held until Mch. 24, 1877. 

He married Annie E., daughter of Hon. John T. Waite, 
and died on Apl. 8, 1894, leaving him surviving his widow, 
one son, and three daughters. 

Hubbard, Frederick A., LL.B., son of Luther P. and 
Mary (Tenney) Hubbard; bom in the Town of Holhs, N. H. ; 
came to the Town of Greenwich when seven years old; was 
educated at the public schools and the Greenwich Academy ; 
studied law in the office of Hon. William E. Evarts of the 
City of New York; graduate of the New York University 
Law School, Class of 1875; admitted to the New York Bar 
in May, 1875; admitted to the Connecticut Bar in Septem- 
ber, 1875, and at the same time opened an office in the 
Borough of Greenwich for the practice of law; in June, 1909, 
was appointed deputy judge of the Borough Court of Green- 
wich; married, Aug. i, 1883, Agnes H., daughter of George 
P. and Ellen F. (June) Waterbury. 

LocKwooD, Luke Adolphus, M.A., LL.D., son of Fred- 
erick and Mary Ann (Jessup) Lockwood ; bom in the Town 
of Greenwich, Dec. i, 1833; graduate of Trinity College, 



364 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Class of 1855; was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his 
college fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi ; was Junior Fellow of 
Trinity College, 1877 to 1883, and at the time of his death 
was one of its trustees; honorary degree of Doctor of Laws 
was conferred on him by Trinity College in 1902. 

After his graduation from college, he studied law with 
Thomas H. Rodman of the City of New York; was admitted 
to the New York Bar in 1856, and afterwards admitted to 
the Connecticut Bar; practised law in the City of New York 
and was for many years the senior member of the well-known 
firm of Lockwood and Hill. 

He was made a mason in Union Lodge of Stamford in 
1856, and in 1857 became a charter member of Acacia Lodge 
of Greenwich ; was its first master and held the office for ten 
years; High Priest of Rittenhouse Chapter, R. A. M., of 
Stamford in 1863; Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons 
of the State of Connecticut in 1865 and 1866; published in 
1867 his work on Masonic Law and Practice, which is the 
recognized authority on masonic jurisprudence ; Grand Mas- 
ter of Masons of the State of Connecticut in 1872 and 1873; 
through his efforts the fraternity is largely indebted for the 
establishment of the Masonic Home at Wallingford, of which 
he was the first president, holding that office until his death. 

It was through his personal influence and efforts that 
Saint Paul's Church at Riverside was organized in 1876, of 
which he was senior warden from its organization until his 
death, and also conducted the services regularly, as lay 
reader, until July 10, 1886, when the Rev. Charles Wright 
Freeland, curate at Saint Andrew's Church, Stamford, took 
charge. 

He was married in Christ Church, Borough of Greenwich, 
Sept. II, 1862, to Mary Louise, daughter of Captain William 
L. and Catherine (Mead) Lyon; died on Nov. 20, 1905, at 
his home in Riverside, and was buried with masonic honors 
in Saint Andrew's Churchyard, Stamford. Their children 
were Theodora Lyon, Gertrude Louise, Luke Vincent, Wil- 
liam Frederick, and Alfred Whitney. 



Lawyers 365 

McNall, George G., bom in the City of Utica, N. Y. ; 
came to the Town of Greenwich when nine years old; was 
clerk in the office of town clerk for seven consecutive years ; 
admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1882; elected judge of 
the Probate Court for the District of Greenwich in 1886, 
1888, and 1898; was appointed deputy judge of the Borough 
Court of Greenwich in 1893; has been attorney for the 
Borough of Greenwich since 1889; was Grand Master of 
Masons of the State of Connecticut in 1899; married, Apl. 
24, 1899, Mrs. Emma Frances Montells. 

Mason, Myron L., bom in the Town of Enfield, Conn., 
Aug. 9, 1823; was a member of the junior class at Yale Col- 
lege; taught school for awhile and then entered upon the 
study of the law; was at one time the law partner of Hon. 
William W. Eaton of Hartford; about 1851 removed to 
Westport, Conn., and was judge of probate for that district 
for seventeen consecutive years; was clerk of the House of 
Representatives in 1854; removed to the City of New York 
in 1869; removed to the Borough of Greenwich in 1871, and 
opened a law office on Putnam Avenue ; elected judge of pro- 
bate for the District of Greenwich in 1873, 1875, 1876, 1877, 
and 1878; designed the seal now used by the Town of Green- 
wich; died in the Borough of Greenwich on June 8, 1890, 
leaving him surviving a son and a daughter. 

Mead, Daniel M., Major, son of Edward and Susan A. 
E. (Merritt) Mead; bom in the Town of Greenwich, June 2, 
1834; after a three years' course at Yale College, he entered 
the Poughkeepsie Law School, from which he graduated in 
1855; was admitted to the Connecticut Bar the same year, 
and opened an office in the Borough of Greenwich for the 
practice of law ; author of the History of the Town of Greenwich 
published in 1857; representative to the General Assembly 
in i860; was made a mason in Union Lodge of Stamford in 
1856, and in 1857 became a charter member of Acacia Lodge 
of Greenwich. 



366 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was commissioned 
Major in the loth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry; 
died in the Town of Greenwich, Sept. 19, 1862, while in the 
service, and home on sick leave; married, June 16, 1856, 
Louisa S., daughter of Colonel Thomas A. and Hannah 
(Seaman) Mead; no children. 

Mead, James R., son of Benjamin C. and Mary E. 
(Ritch) Mead; born in the Town of Greenwich; studied law 
in the office of Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt ; admitted to the 
Connecticut Bar in 1882; practised with Colonel Hoyt for 
three years, and then opened an office in the Borough of 
Greenwich for the practice of law ; town clerk of the Town of 
Greenwich from 1887 to 1903 inclusive; assistant prosecuting 
attorney for the Borough Court of Greenwich from 1893 to 
1899 inclusive; deputy judge of the Borough Court of Green- 
wich in 1900 and 1901 ; representative to the General Assem- 
bly in 1903; warden of the Borough of Greenwich in 1907 
and 1908; married, Nov., 1888, Elizabeth M., daughter of 
Thomas Stone, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mead, Joseph, son of William Mead; bom in England in 
1630; came to America in 1635; settled in Stamford in 1641 ; 
removed to the Town of Greenwich in 1665; died on May 3, 
1690. He was the first lawyer who was a resident of the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Mead, S. Cristy, A.B., LL.B., son of Solomon and Mary 
E. (Dayton) Mead ; bom in the Town of Greenwich ; graduate 
of Yale College, Class of 1890; graduate of Yale Law School, 
Class of 1892; admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1892; 
admitted to the New York Bar in 1894; ^^^ been secretary 
of the Merchants' Association of New York since 1897; 
married, June 26, 1890, Frances R. Boss. 

QuiNLAN, Edward J., A.B., LL.B., son of Jeremiah 
Quinlan, Jr., and Frances (Nugent) Quinlan; bom in the 



Lawyers 367 

Town of Branford, Conn. ; graduate of Yale College, Class of 
1907; graduate of Yale Law School, Class of 1909; admitted 
to the Connecticut Bar in 1909; came to Greenwich in 1909, 
and is connected with the law firm of Walsh and Wright. 

Radford, Stephen L., son of Stephen L. and Julia 
Sophia (Ritch) Radford; bom in the Town of Greenwich; 
studied law in the office of Michael Kenealy of Stamford, 
and also at the New York University Law School; clerk in 
the office of the town clerk of the Town of Greenwich in 1898 
and 1899; admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1899; opened 
an office in the Borough of Greenwich for the practice of law 
on June i, 1899; has been clerk of the Borough Court of 
Greenwich since 1905. 

RuNGEE, William C, LL.B., son of Henry J. and Pau- 
line F. (Liefeld) Rungee; bom in the City of New Britain, 
Conn.; graduate of the Yale Law School, Class of 1903; 
admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1903; opened an office 
for the practice of law in New Haven in 1903; continued in 
practice there until ApL, 1905, when he accepted a position 
with the law firm of Walsh and Wright of Greenwich, Conn. ; 
remained with them until Sept. i, 1908; married, Sept. 7, 
1908, Adeline S., daughter of Mills H. Husted; then went 
abroad for two months, and on his return opened an office in 
the Borough of Greenwich for the practice of law. 

Russell, Joseph E., LL.B., son of Joseph E. and Sophia 
A. (Mead) Russell; bom in the Town of Greenwich, July 28, 
1 851; graduate of the New York University Law School, 
Class of 1873; admitted to the New York Bar in 1874; never 
appUed for admission to the Connecticut Bar; married, ist, 
Nov. 13, 1878, Mary EHzabeth, daughter of William E. and 
EUzabeth (Greene) Stone of Utica, New York, who died 
Jan. 10, 1898; married, 2d, Sara, daughter of John H. and 
Ann (Evans) Jones of Utica, New York ; was judge of probate 
for the District of Greenwich for ten consecutive years, 1901 



368 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

to 19 10; died on the seventh day of April, 191 1, and left him 
surviving his widow and a daughter by his first wife. 

TiERNEY, Jeremiah, bom in Ireland; came to America 
when four years old and settled in the Town of Norwalk, 
Conn.; at the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a 
private in Company K, 69th Regiment, New York National 
Guard; learned the hatter's trade in Norwalk; was at one 
time general secretary of the Hatters' National Union and a 
leading spirit of trade unionism in America; was largely 
instrumental in the settlement of the hatters' strike, which 
occurred in Norwalk in 1884; appointed by Governor 
Andrews as one of the commissioners to investigate prison 
labor in the different prisons in the United States; while 
working at his trade he took up the study of law under L. P. 
Deming of New Haven and General Nelson Taylor of Nor- 
walk, and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1882; 
removed to the Town of Greenwich in 1894 ^^^ opened an 
office in the Borough of Greenwich for the practice of law; 
deputy judge of the Borough Court of Greenwich from 1896 
to 1899, and from 1902 to 1909. He is the only lawyer now 
in the Towns of Greenwich and Stamford who is a member 
of the Grand Army. He entered upon his duties as judge 
of probate for the District of Greenwich on the first day of 
January, 191 1. 

TiERNEY, William L., B.A., LL.B., son of Jeremiah 
and Mary (Loughlin) Tiemey ; bom in the Town of Norwalk, 
Conn.; graduate of Fordham University, Class of 1898; 
graduate of the New York Law School, Class of 1900; 
admitted to the New York Bar July, 1900; admitted to the 
Connecticut Bar, December, 1910; first commenced the prac- 
tice of law in the City of New York, July, 1900, and opened 
an office for the practice of law in the Town of Greenwich, 
December, 1910. 

Walker, Thomas, practised law in the Town of Green- 
wich from 1800 to 1824. 



Lawyers 369 

Walsh, James Francis, son of James F. and Annie E. 
Walsh; bom in Lewisboro, Westchester County, N. Y. ; in 
1864 the family removed to the Town of Ridgefield, Conn.; 
removed to the Town of Greenwich in 1882 and commenced 
the study of law with his brother, Hon. R. Jay Walsh; 
admitted to the Connecticut Bar in Jan., 1888, and immed- 
iately opened an office in the Borough of Greenwich for the 
practice of law; was appointed prosecuting agent for the 
county commissioners in 1888, and in 1889 prosecuting 
attorney for the Borough Court of Greenwich, both of which 
offices he held until 1905; representative to the General 
Assembly in 1901 ; state senator in 1903 and 1907; treasiurer 
of the State of Connecticut in 1905 and 1906; appointed 
judge of the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in 1905 and 
has held the office ever since; married, Apl. 11, 1893, Emily 
Gene, daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Moore) Tweedale of 
Port Chester, N. Y. 

Walsh, Robert Jay, son of James F. and Annie E. 
Walsh; bom in Lewisboro, Westchester County, N. Y, ; in 
1864 the family removed to the Town of Ridgefield, Conn.; 
educated at the High Ridge Institute and the New Britain 
Normal College ; taught school for a number of years ; studied 
law in the office of Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt of Green- 
wich; admitted to the Connecticut Bar in Apl., 1880; prac- 
tised with Colonel Hoyt until 1882, when he opened an office 
in the Borough of Greenwich for the practice of law; state 
senator in 1885 and 1887; was one of the members of the 
committee to whom was entrusted the revision of the statutes 
in 1888; secretary of the State of Connecticut from 1889 to 
1893; appointed judge of the Criminal Court of Common 
Pleas in 1889, which position he held until 1901; town 
counsel since 1882; president of The Greenwich Trust Com- 
pany since 1890; married, Oct. 7, 1879, Annie E., daughter 
of Matthew and Julia (Downes) Merritt. 

White, Henry B., son of Thomas C. and Annie E. 



370 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

(Walsh) White; bom in the Town of Ridgefield, Conn.; 
studied law in the office of Hon. James F. Walsh of Green- 
wich and also at the New York University Law School; 
admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1903; clerk of the Bor- 
ough Court of Greenwich in 1904 and 1905; prosecuting 
attorney of the Borough Court of Greenwich since 1905; 
clerk and treasurer of the Borough of Greenwich in 1906, 
1907, and 1908. 

Wright, Wilbur S., A.B., son of Lieutenant Benjamin 
and Abigail R. (Mead) Wright ; bom in the Town of Green- 
wich; graduate of Yale College, Class of 1893; studied law in 
the office of Hon. R. Jay Walsh of Greenwich and also at the 
New York Law School ; admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 
1899, and during the same year became the junior partner of 
the law firm of Walsh and Wright; assistant prosecuting 
attorney of the Borough Court of Greenwich since 1901. 

Physicians. 

Allen, Charles C, M.D., practised medicine in the 
Town of Greenwich from 1848 to 1869; resided at Cos Cob 
just west of the schoolhouse ; removed to New York. 

Austin, Albert E., A.B., A.M., M.D., son of Henry C. 
and Leah Martha (Huddlestun) Austin ; bom in the Town of 
Medway, Mass.; A.B., Amherst College, Class of 1899; A. 
M., Amherst College, Class of 1904; M.D., Jefferson Medical 
School, Class of 1905; engaged in hospital work in Philadel- 
phia, Pa. ; practised medicine in Medway, Mass. ; opened an 
office in Sound Beach for the practice of medicine on Sept. i, 
1907; married, Mch. 29, 1910, Anne T. Christy. 

Belcher, Elisha, M.D., son of Colonel William Belcher 
and Desire (Morgan) Belcher; bom in the Town of Preston, 
now Lebanon, Conn., in 1756; took up the study of medicine 
and at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War entered the 



Physicians 371 

Continental Army as surgeon's mate; in April, 1780, he was 
promoted to surgeon and transferred to the 9th Regiment, 
4th Brigade, Connecticut Militia, and stationed at Green- 
wich, Conn.; was made a mason in Union Lodge of Stam- 
ford in 1780; representative to the General Assembly in 
1798, 1803, and 181 1 ; married, July 19, 1781, Lydia, daughter 
of Horton and Lydia (Knapp) Reynolds. After the close of 
the Revolutionary War he resided at Round Hill, a short 
distance south of the present Episcopal Church, and prac- 
tised medicine in the Town of Greenwich until his death, 
which occurred on Dec. 23, 1825. His children were Clarissa, 
Alethina (Alice), Lydia K., Mary (Polly), EHsha R., Sarah 
B., William N., Elizabeth M., and Ann Augusta. Both his 
sons were physicians, but removed from Greenwich soon 
after reaching the age of twenty-one years. 

Bergin, Thomas J., A.B., M.D., son of Patrick and 
Ellen (Crotty) Bergin; bom in the City of New Haven, 
Conn.; graduate of Yale College, Class of 1896; graduate of 
Yale Medical School, Class of 1899; assistant surgeon in the 
army during the Spanish- American War; surgeon in the 
New Haven Hospital for two years; practised medicine in 
New Haven for three years ; opened an office in Cos Cob for 
the practice of medicine in 1907. 

Boyle, Stacey Watkyn, M.D., son of Charles C. and 
Isabelle Stacey (Watkins) Boyle; bom in the City of New 
York; graduate of the New York Homoeopathic Medical 
College and Hospital, Class of 1908; interne in the Metropol- 
itan Hospital, Blackwell's Island, Department of Charity, 
June I, 1908 to June i, 1909; spent part of the year 1907 in 
the study of medicine abroad ; opened an office in the Borough 
of Greenwich for the practice of medicine on June i, 1909. 

Brooks, Frank T., A.B., M.D., son of Charles A. and 
Fanny P. (Chase) Brooks; bom in the Town of Haverhill, 
Mass.; graduate of Yale College, Class of 1890; graduate of 



372 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

the Long Island College Hospital, Class of 1893; interne in 
the Long Island College Hospital during the years 1893 and 
1894; settled in the Borough of Greenwich in 1894 ^^^ soon 
thereafter opened an office for the practice of medicine; 
spent the winter of 1901 in medical studies abroad; married, 
Jan. 20, 1907, at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, Madeline 
Conkey. 

Brush, James H., M.D., son of David and Sophia 
(Young) Brush; bom in the Town of Greenwich, Sept. 17, 
1822 ; studied law in the City of New York and was admitted 
to the New York Bar; practised law in the City of New York 
for a few years; then took up the study of medicine in the 
cities of New York, London, and Paris ; first commenced the 
practice of medicine in the City of New York; removed to 
the Town of Greenwich in 1863, and opened an office for the 
practice of medicine, where he died Oct, 14, 1893; was judge 
of probate for the District of Greenwich from 1865 to 1873; 
married, April 13, 1864, Sarah Amelia, daughter of George 
D. and Sarah Parker. 

Burke, William, M.D., son of William and Joanna 
(Dwyer) Burke; bom in Perryville, N.Y. ; graduate of 
Casenovia Seminary; graduate of the Long Island College 
Hospital, Class of 1896; opened an office in the old Mead 
Homestead on Greenwich Avenue, Borough of Greenwich, 
May I, 1896, for the practice of medicine; married, Nov. 4, 
1897, Anna A., daughter of Patrick T. Mongan of Green- 
wich. 

Bush, Ralph L, A.B., M.D., son of David and Sarah 
Bush; bom in the Town of Greenwich, Oct, 29, 1779; grad- 
uate of Yale College, Class of 1802; first studied medicine 
in the Town of Greenwich and then with Dr. Rush of Phila- 
delphia, Pa., where he received his medical degree; practised 
medicine in Rockland County, N. Y,, and in the City of New 
York; died in the City of New York on Aug. 4, i860. 



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Bush, William, M.D., son of Justus Bush; bom in the 
Town of Greenwich, Feb. 24, 1737; practised medicine in 
the Town of Greenwich ; was made a mason in Union Lodge 
of Stamford in 1780, and was its master from 1788 to 1792; 
died in Dec, 1801; married, Jan. 11, 1778, Deborah, widow 
of Seth Mead. 

Clarke, John A., M.D., son of Alexander and Cassandra 
Clarke; born in the City of New York; graduate of Bellevue 
Medical Hospital, Class of 1897; ambulance surgeon at the 
Harlem Hospital; practised medicine in South Manchester, 
Conn., for two years; opened an office in the Borough of 
Greenwich for the practice of medicine on June i, 1900. 

Close, Thomas, M.D., son of Abraham and Mary (Hub- 
bard) Close ; bom in the Town of Greenwich, Dec. 30, 1 784 ; 
first practised medicine in the City of New York; removed 
to Port Chester, N. Y., about 1830; removed to Brooklyn, 
N. Y., in 1862, where he died April 14, 1863; married, April 
29, 1807, Jemima Hobby of Greenwich, and had five chil- 
dren. 

Ferris, Harry Burr, A.B., M.D., son of Samuel H. and 
Mary (Clark) Ferris ; bom in the Town of Greenwich ; grad- 
uate of Yale CoUege, Class of 1887; graduate of Yale Medical 
School, Class of 1891 ; Professor of Anatomy at Yale Medical 
School; married Helen W., daughter of Gilbert Hopkins and 
Mary (Knight) Ferris, by whom he had Helen Millington 
and Henry Whiting. 

Franklin, Thomas M., M.D., son of William H. and 
Hannah R. Franklin; bom in the City of New York; grad- 
uate of New York University Medical School, Class of 1847; 
opened an office at Cos Cob for the practice of medicine 
in 1887; died, March 22, 1896, and left a son, Spencer 
Franklin, M.D., who soon removed from the Town of 
Greenwich. 



374 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

GoEHLE, Otto L., A.B., M.D., son of Carl A. and 
Augusta (Bette) Goehle; bom in the City of Buffalo, N, Y. ; 
graduate of Cornell College, Class of 1902; graduate of 
Cornell Medical School, Class of 1905; interne at the New 
York Hospital from 1906 to 1908; interne in the private 
pavilion of the New York Hospital from 1908 to 1909; 
graduate of St. Mary's Hospital of the City of New York for 
Children, 1909; graduate of the Memorial Hospital of the 
City of New York, Jan. i, 1910; engaged in dispensary ser- 
vice at Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital of the City of New 
York doing ear work; settled in the Borough of Greenwich 
in June, 19 10, and opened an office for the practice of medi- 
cine. 

Graham, John Augustus, M.D., resided at White 
Plains, N. Y., during the Revolutionary War and was a 
leading patriot; removed to the Town of Greenwich, where 
he died on May 18, 1796, age 47 years and 2 months. 

Griswold, Ralph B., M.D., son of Lucius and Julia 
Elizabeth (Barnard) Griswold; bom in the Town of Cole- 
brook, Litchfield County, Conn.; studied medicine at the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York, 
and graduated from the Eclectic Medical College, Cincin- 
nati, O., Class of 1856; was a resident physician for a year in 
Dr. Strong's Sanitarium, Saratoga, N. Y. ; removed to Banks- 
ville in 1858, and opened an office for the practice of medi- 
cine; married Mary J., daughter of Andrew Derby of 
Winsted, Conn. Banksville is located on the boundary line 
between the Town of North Castle, N. Y., and the Town of 
Greenwich, and lies partly in both states. 

Griswold, William L., Ph.B., M.D., son of Ralph B.. 
and Mary J. (Derby) Griswold; bom in Banksville, Town of 
North Castle, N. Y. ; graduate of Yale College, Class of 1881 ; 
graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the 
City of New York, Class of 1885; engaged in out-patient 



Physicians 375 



work at the Northwestern Dispensary during part of the 
year 1885; opened an office in the Borough of Greenwich for 
the practice of medicine in July, 1885; married, ist, in 1889, 
Martha E. Conkey; married, 2d, in 1906, CaroHne E. 
Morrell. 

Hanlon, Albert F., M.D., son of Edward and Frances 
Louise Hanlon; bom in the City of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; graduate 
of the Boston University School of Medicine, Class of 1906; 
graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College of the City of 
Philadelphia, Class of 1907; spent the summer of 1907 at 
the London General Hospital, London, England, in the study 
of medicine ; house physician at the Hahnemann Hospital of 
the City of Philadelphia for one year; practised medicine in 
Atlantic City for one year; settled in the Borough of Green- 
wich in 1909, and opened an office for the practice of medi- 
cine. 

Hobby, Samuel D., M.D., son of Hezekiah and Eliza- 
beth (Mead) Hobby; bom in the Town of Greenwich in 
1 781 ; died June 7, 1861. 

Holly, Francis M., M.D., grandson of John W. Holly 
of the Town of Stamford; born in the City of New York; 
graduate of Yale Medical School, Class of 1855; settled at 
Round Hill in the Town of Greenwich in 1859, and opened 
an office for the practice of medicine; removed his office to 
the Borough of Greenwich in 1868, where he is still located. 

HoYT, James H., M.D., son of Joseph W. and Louisa M. 
(Whelpley) Hoyt; bom in the Town of Ridgefield, Conn.; 
studied medicine in the City of New York with Dr. Valen- 
tine Mott; first commenced the practice of medicine in the 
Borough of Greenwich in 1853; representative to the General 
Assembly in 1856; removed to the Town of Stamford about 
1865, where he died Feb. 10, 1875; married, July 18, 1854, 
Elizabeth S., daughter of Joseph and Sarah A. (Mead) 



376 Ye Historic of Ye Town of GreeiYwich 

Brush, bom Feb. 14, 1829, died May 17, 1898, by whom he 
had Sarah Louisa and Isabelle T. 

HuGERFORD, Thomas, M.D., Settled in the Town of 
Greenwich in 1742, died about 1761, and his widow, Eliza- 
beth, afterwards married Captain Israel Knapp, inn-keeper. 

Hyde, Fritz Carleton, B.S., M.D., son of Wesley 
Warren and Mary Elizabeth (Powell) Hyde; bom at Grand 
Rapids, Mich.; graduate of the University of Michigan, 
Class of 1898; graduate of the Medical Department of the 
University of Michigan, Class of 1900; spent one year as a 
physician at Calumet Hospital; settled in the Town of 
Greenwich in 1901, and now has an office for the practice 
of medicine on the easterly side of Maple Avenue, Borough of 
Greenwich ; President of the Staff of the Greenwich Hospital ; 
married, in 1901, Harriet Virginia, daughter of Edwin 
Howard and Carrie Virginia (Richardson) Baker, 

Hyde, Harriet Baker, M.D., daughter of Edwin PIow- 
ard and Carrie Virginia (Richardson) Baker; bom at Ware, 
Mass.; graduate of the Medical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, Class of 1900; settled in the Town of 
Greenwich in 1900, and now has an office for the practice 
of medicine on the easterly side of Maple Avenue, Borough of 
Greenwich ; attending physician at the Greenwich Hospital ; 
married, in 1901, Fritz Carleton Hyde, B.S., M.D. 

Jones, Leander P., M.D., son of Thomas and Abigail 
(Carter) Jones; bom at Shaftsbury, Vt. ; graduate of the 
New York College of Homoeopathy, Class of 1874; opened an 
office in the Borough of Greenwich for the practice of medi- 
cine on July I, 1875; one of the earliest advocates of pre- 
ventive medicine; prominent member of the American 
Public Health Association ; medical examiner for the coroner 
for upwards of twenty years; state senator in 1893; first 
health officer of the Borough as well as the Town of Green- 



Physicians 377 

wich; died at Bellaire, Fla., March 17, 1907; married Fanny, 
youngest daughter of Milo and Rhoda (Barrett) Hotchkiss, 
by whom he had Milo H., Philip L., Horace C, Barrett, and 
Rhoda. 

Jones, Milo Hotchkiss, M.D., son of Dr. Leander P. 
and Fanny (Hotchkiss) Jones; bom at Kensington, Conn., 
Feb. 26, 1875; attended the pubUc school in the Borough of 
Greenwich; King's School at Stamford, Conn.; graduate of 
Yale Medical School, Class of 1896; spent two years as a 
physician at Bellevue Hospital in the City of New York, 
after which he commenced the practice of medicine in the 
Borough of Greenwich with his father; died, July 27, 1903, 
unmarried. 

Klein, Alvin W., M.D., bom in Owenton, Owen County, 
Ky. ; graduate of the Cincinnati Medical College, Class of 
1889; resident physician at the Manhattan State Hospital, 
N. Y., for three years; resident physician at Sanford Hall, 
Flushing, L. I. ; settled in the Town of Greenwich in 1903, 
and opened an office for the practice of medicine in the 
Borough of Greenwich; health officer for the Borough of 
Greenwich since 1907; married Augusta J. Bowman, who 
was bom in 1867 and died in 1907. 

Marshall, James L., M.D., son of Captain WilHam S. 
and Sarah E. (Morrison) Marshall; bom in the City of 
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1854; family removed to North 
Mianus in 1857; graduate of the Bellevue Medical Hospital, 
Class of 1876; first practised medicine in the Borough of 
Greenwich, then removed to Cos Cob ; removed to Norwalk, 
Conn., in 1899, where he died in June, 1904; married Carrie, 
daughter of James and Cora (Thompson) Knapp, by whom 
he had William J. and Clayton. 

Mead, Amos, M.D., son of Ebenezer and Hannah 
(Brown) Mead; bom in the Town of Greenwich, Feb. 22, 



378 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1730; surgeon of the 3d Connecticut Regiment, French and 
Indian War, campaign of 1759; prominent patriot during 
the Revolutionary War, serving on many committees; 
delegate to the convention held at Hartford, Jan., 1788, 
which ratified the United States Constitution; represent- 
ative to the General Assembly from 1770 to 1776; 1778 
to 1781; 1785, 1787, 1788, 1790 to 1793; practised medi- 
cine in the Town of Greenwich until his death, which 
occurred on Feb. 24, 1807; married Ruth, daughter of 
Justus Bush. 

Mead, Clarkson S., A.B., M.D., son of Isaac H. and 
Mary E. (Mead) Mead; graduate of Columbia College, 
Class of 1882; graduate of the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, Class of 1885; interne and house physician at 
Roosevelt Hospital of the City of New York for eighteen 
months ; practised medicine in the Town of Greenwich until 
Oct. 31, 1887, when he removed to Port Chester, N. Y., 
where he is now engaged in the practice of medicine. 

Mead, Darius, M.D., son of Joshua and Rachel (Knapp) 
Mead ; bom in the Town of Greenwich, July 9, 1 787 ; graduate 
of Yale College, Class of 1807; studied medicine in Phila- 
delphia, Pa., under Dr. Benjamin Rush and received his 
diploma in 1809; practised medicine in the City of New 
York for a few months, and then returned to the Town of 
Greenwich, where he practised medicine until his death, 
which occurred on Jan. 28, 1864; state senator in 1844 and 
1845; married, in 1809, Lydia K., daughter of Elisha Belcher, 
M.D., of Round Hill. 

Mead, Elisha Belcher, A.B., M.D., son of Amos and 
Mary (Purdy) Mead; bom in the Town of Greenwich, Aug. 
20, 1823; graduate of WilHams College; graduate of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons ; practised medicine in the 
Town of Greenwich until his death, which occurred on April 
5. 1849. 



Physicians , 379 

Mead, Shadrach, A.B., M.D., son of Titus and Rachel 
(Rundle) Mead; bom in the Town of Greenwich, Jan. 15, 
1758; graduate of Yale College, Class of 1779; practised 
medicine in the Town of Greenwich until his death, which 
occurred on Sept. 16, 1844; married, ist, Tammy Hobby, 
who died April 21, 18 14; married, 2d, Abigail Ingersoll, 
who died April 7, 1875. 

Mead, Sylvester, M.D., son of the Rev. Mark and 
Hannah (Mead) Mead; born in the Town of Greenwich, in 
1806; graduate of Yale Medical School, Class of 1829; after 
finishing the study of medicine he assisted Dr. Darius Mead 
for a year or two, and then opened an office for the practice 
of medicine in the Town of Wilton, Conn.; left Wilton in 
1864, and returned to the To\^'n of Greenwich, and opened 
an office in the Borough of Greenwich for the practice of 
medicine; bought out the drug store of Dr. Aiken, then at 
the comer of Mechanic Street (now Sherwood Place) and 
Putnam Avenue, which burned down about a year later; 
then located in the old Greenwich Savings Bank Building 
near the comer of Putnam Avenue and Church Street ; later 
removed to Greenwich Avenue; practised medicine in the 
Town of Greenwich until his death, which occurred on Dec, 
21, 1894; unmarried. 

O'DoNNELL, Thomas J., M.D., son of Michael J. and 
Mary E. (Burke) O'Donnell; bom in East Syracuse, N, Y. ; 
took a two-year preparatory course in Syracuse University ; 
graduate of Syracuse Medical College, Class of 1907; interne 
at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, Syracuse, for eighteen 
months ; opened an office for the practice of medicine in the 
Town of Greenwich, in 1908. 

Palmer, David, M.D., son of Samuel Palmer, Jr., and 
Amy (Rundle) Palmer, daughter of William and Amy 
(Mead) Rimdle; bom in the Town of Greenwich, Oct. 10, 
1790; studied medicine with Dr. Elisha Belcher of Round 



380 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Hill; practised medicine at White Plains, N. Y.; died on 
Nov. 14, 1873; married, on Nov. 2'], 1816, Sarah B., daughter 
of Dr. Elisha and Lydia (Reynolds) Belcher, by whom 
he had Sarah Augusta and David Belcher. 

Palmer, Henry, M.D., son of Nathaniel and Rachel 
(Marshall) Palmer; bom in the Town of Greenwich, in 1799; 
practised medicine in the City of New York; died in Dec, 
1825. 

Parker, Edward O., A.B., M.D., graduate of Harvard 
College, Class of 1891 ; graduate of the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, Class of 1 896 ; alumnus of the New York Hospi- 
tal and the Sloan Maternity Hospital of the City of New York ; 
assistant physician attending out-patient department of the 
New York Hospital ; assistant gynecologist at the New York 
Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital; practised medicine 
in the City of New York for five years ; settled in the Town 
of Greenwich, in 1905, and now has an office for the practice 
of medicine on Putnam Avenue in the Borough of Green- 
wich. 

PiATTi, Virgil C, M.D., bom in the City of New York; 
graduate of the College of the City of New York, Class of 
1888; graduate of the New York Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege, Class of 1 891 ; graduate of the New York Ophthalmic 
College and Hospital, Class of 1892; resident physician of 
the Brooklyn Maternity and Child's Hospital in 1893; spent 
eight months abroad in the study of medicine ; settled in the 
Town of Greenwich, in 1894, ^'^^ opened an office for the 
practice of medicine in the Borough of Greenwich; now 
makes a specialty of pathology and bacteriology in the City 
of New York. 

Sanford, Clark, M.D., a native of Vermont, commenced 
the practice of medicine in the Town of Greenwich about 
1 790. He was noted for his skill in the treatment of an epi- 
demic known as the "winter fever," which prevailed exten- 



Physicians 381 

sively from 1812 to 1815. He was widely known to the 
profession as one of the first who manufactured pulverized 
Peruvian bark, which was sold under the name of "Sanford 
Bark. " He had a mill at Glenville for grinding drugs, which 
was one of the first establishments of the kind in the country. 
He died about 1820, aged over sixty years, leaving him sur- 
viving the following children: Josephus, John, Henry, and 
two daughters. 

See Baird's History of Rye, published in 1871. 

Smith, Charles, M.D., son of Franklin and Margaret 
(O'Neil) Smith; bom in the City of New York; graduate of 
the Long Island College Hospital, Class of 1890; engaged in 
dispensary work in the City of New York; practised medi- 
cine in the City of New York until 1901 ; spent two years in 
Honduras; settled in the Town of Greenwich, in Sept., 1903, 
and now has an office for the practice of medicine on the 
southerly side of the Post Road at the top of the hill east of 
the Mianus River Bridge. 

White, Bartow F., M.D., son of Dr. Ebenezer and Amy 
(Green) White; bom in the Town of Somers, Westchester 
County, N. Y., May 28, 1801; commenced the study of 
medicine with his father ; removed to the Town of Greenwich 
about 1 82 1, and completed his medical studies with Dr. 
Elisha Belcher at Round Hill, after which he opened an 
office for the practice of medicine at Round Hill ; representa- 
tive to the General Assembly in 1834; made a Mason at 
Union Lodge of Stamford in 1824, and in 1857 became a 
charter member of Acacia Lodge of Greenwich; practised 
medicine in the Town of Greenwich until his death, which 
occurred on Dec. 12, 1869; married, on Nov. 27, 1823, Ann 
Augusta, daughter of Dr. Elisha Belcher, by whom he had 
William, Alethea H., Stephen, and Elisha. 

White, John C, M.D., son of Jacob and Mahala (Briggs) 
White; bom in Schenectady County, N. Y. ; graduate of the 



382 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Albany Medical School, Class of 1866; opened an office for 
the practice of medicine at Round Hill in the Town of Green- 
wich in 1866; removed to the Borough of Greenwich in 1887; 
removed to Port Chester, N. Y., in 1889, where he now has 
an office for the practice of medicine; married Mary Secor, 
and has a son, John F., who is also a physician. 

WoRDEN, Nathaniel, M.D., granted a parcel of land by 
the Town of Greenwich, Dec. 12, 1720; practised medicine 
in the Town of Greenwich until his death in 1738. He left 
him surviving, his widow, Margaret, and the following chil- 
dren: Roger, Gabriel, Daniel, Nathaniel, Job, Elizabeth, 
wife of Jonathan Merritt, Thankful, wife of Samuel Worden, 
Hopestill, and Margaret. 

Hospitals. 

greenwich general hospital. 

The Greenwich General Hospital, which is located on 
the Parsonage Road, was presented to the Town of Green- 
wich by the late Robert M. Bruce in September, 1903, and at 
the annual town meeting, held on the fifth day of October, 
1903, the following preamble and resolution were unani- 
mously adopted : 

Whereas our esteemed townsman, Mr. Robert M. Bruce, 
has presented to the Town of Greenwich land and building 
to be used as a hospital fully furnished and equipped for the 
care of emergency cases, therefore be it: 

Resolved, that a vote of thanks be extended to Mr. Bruce 
for his generous gift, and for his foresight in the establishment 
of an institution, which is not only now of value, but which 
will increase in value and importance in the future growth 
of our town. 

It has since been enlarged and is now known as the 
Greenwich General Hospital. 



Hospitals 383 

THE GREENWICH HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION. 

Incorporated, 1903. 

The Greenwich Hospital Association was incorporated by 
an act of the General Assembly passed in 1903, whereby it 
was: 

Resolved, that A. Foster Higgins, Edward Brush, Wil- 
liam P. Hall, Herbert B. Stevens, George Lauder, Jr., and 
such other persons, not exceeding fifteen in number, as they 
may name and appoint, and such other persons as shall from 
time to time be elected members as hereinafter provided, be, 
and they hereby are made a body politic and corporate by 
the name of The Greenwich Hospital Association, for the 
purpose of establishing and maintaining a general hospital 
in the Town of Greenwich, etc. 

It is located on the westerly side of Milbank Avenue in 
the Borough of Greenwich, and the building was completed, 
equipped, and opened for inspection on the tenth day of 
September, 1906. 

Officers, 1910, A. Foster Higgins, President; John T. 
Pratt, Vice-President; George Lauder, Jr., Treasurer; Colby 
M. Chester, Jr., Assistant Treasurer; and A. W. W. Mar- 
shall, Secretary. 

Fire Companies, 
fire department, borough of greenwich. 

Organized, 1879. 
Officers, 1 9 10. 

Henry B. Marshall, Warden. 
George W. Merritt, Chief Engineer. 
James N. Sullivan, ist Assistant Engineer. 
Frank E. Mead, 2d Assistant Engineer. 

AMOGERONE ENGINE, HOOK, LADDER AND HOSE COMPANY, 

NO. I. 

Isaac M. Hubbard, Foreman. 

Harry Talbot, 1st Assistant Foreman. 

Robert E. Talmage, 26. Assistant Foreman. . 

Albert S. Mead, Secretary. 

Charles E. Merritt, Treasurer. 



3^4 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

VOLUNTEER HOOK, LADDER AND HOSE COMPANY, NO. 2. 

Frank P. Haggerty, Foreman. 

Philip O. Alley, ist Assistant Foreman. 

George W. Briggs, 26. Assistant Foreman. 

Joseph W. Delaney, Secretary. 

William S. Any an, Treasurer. 

AMOGERONE ENGINE, HOOK, LADDER AND HOSE 
COMPANY, NO. I. 

The first action taken by the board of burgesses to 
organize a fire company in the Borough of Greenwich was at 
a meeting held on the fourteenth day of October, 1878, when 
it was: 

Resolved, that a committee consisting of Henry B. Mar- 
shall and Stephen G. White be appointed to organize a hook 
and ladder company, and to appoint a foreman, two assist- 
ants, and such foremen as may be deemed advisable; also 
to adopt rules for the government of the company, to pro- 
cure ladders, hooks, buckets and such other implements as 
may be thought advisable. 

The committee promptly proceeded to perform the duties 
imposed on it and a company was soon organized, which 
consisted of about thirty members and was called the 
"Amogerone Hook and Ladder Company, No. i." Its 
officers were Henry M. Fitzgerald, Chief Engineer; George 
E. Scofield, 1st Assistant Engineer; Thomas J. Ritch, 26. 
Assistant Engineer; Victor H. Russell, Foreman; and Wil- 
liam Talbot, Assistant Foreman. 

On the twenty-fourth day of June, 1879, the committee 
was further authorized to select a site, or building, for a fire- 
engine house. The committee selected a site on the westerly 
side of Greenwich Avenue within twenty feet of the present 
truck house. 

At a meeting of the board of burgesses held on the thir- 
teenth day of August, 1879, it was: 



Fire Companies 385 

Resolved, that the court of burgesses be instructed and 
authorized to purchase for the borough a suitable lot and 
erect a suitable building thereon to be used by the fire 
department of said borough as an engine, or truck house. 

The hook and ladder truck and other fire apparatus 
arrived on the fifteenth day of August, 1879, and were stored 
in the old armory building on the southwest corner of Green- 
wich Avenue and Elm Street in charge of Victor H. Russell, 
Foreman. The engine house was completed and turned 
over to the care of Henry M. Fitzgerald, Chief Engineer, on 
the twenty-ninth day of January, 1880, in accordance with 
the provisions of the charter and by-laws of the Borough of 
Greenwich. A handsome hose carriage was purchased in 
1 88 1, after the introduction of water into the borough. A 
new truck arrived on the twenty-first day of October, 1899. 

The present truck house was purchased on the second day 
of May, 1899. The purchase of a fire engine was authorized 
on the fifth day of June, 1900, which arrived on the twelfth 
day of September, 1900. An auto chemical hose wagon 
arrived on the twelfth day of September, 1910. It is rated 
as a 40- H. P. automobile, fitted for fire fighting, and carries a 
235-gallon chemical tank, 1000 feet of 23/^-inch hose, two 16- 
foot extension ladders, a siren alarm gong and a powerful 
searchlight, and has a speed of fifty miles an hour. 

The fire apparatus of this company now consists of a 
steamer, hook and ladder truck, patrol wagon, hose wagon, 
auto chemical hose wagon, and jumper. The jumper is the 
only part of the original apparatus left. 

VOLUNTEER HOOK AND LADDER AND HOSE COMPANY, NO. 2. 

Incorporated, 1892. 

The Volunteer Hook and Ladder and Hose Company, 
No. 2, was organized early in January, 1892, at a meeting 
held in the Lent Building, comer of Greenwich and Railroad 
Avenues, and the following officers were elected : John Hor- 
ton. Foreman; Edward Sheeran, ist Assistant Foreman; 



386 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Benjamin Evesson, 2d Assistant Foreman. It was incor- 
porated on the twenty-seventh day of August, 1892. The 
company was reorganized on the eighteenth day of June, 
1895, a-t a meeting held in a bam on Grigg Street owned by 
Jesse Reynolds, and the following officers were elected : John 
L. Mahoney, Foreman; John Doran, ist Assistant Foreman; 
Benjamin Evesson, 2d Assistant Foreman; Harry Doran, 
Secretary; William J. Smith, Treasurer. It purchased a 
jiimper and hose, which were received in the latter part of 
June, 1895, and placed in the Lent Building. The company 
was handicapped from the start owing to the lack of suitable 
quarters, so at the annual town meeting held on the seventh 
day of October, 1895, it was: 

Voted that an appropriation of $3500 or so much 
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made for the purchase 
of a site and the erection of a building in the vicinity of the 
railroad station for the Fire and Hose Company, and the 
selectmen are hereby authorized to make such purchase 
and construct such building, provided the Borough of Green- 
wich will maintain said building and the apparatus of said 
fire company. 

On the twenty- third day of February, 1895, the proposed 
plans for a truck house were submitted, and after approval 
the construction of the building commenced. The company 
moved into its new quarters on Arch Street early in August, 
1896. 

The fire apparatus of this company now consists of an 
auto chemical engine, which was received on the seventeenth 
day of April, 1909, hose wagon, and jumper. 

THE PROTECTION ENGINE AND HOSE COMPANY. 

FORMERLY THE 

NEW LEBANON ENGINE AND HOSE COMPANY. 

Incorporated, 1893. 
East Port Chester. 

The first fire company in East Port Chester was organized 
on the twenty-seventh day of April, 1891, at a meeting held 



Fire Companies 387 

in the old schoolhouse at that place, and the names of over 
forty men were secured for the organization. The following 
officers were elected: John Boal, Foreman; James J. Nedley, 
Assistant Foreman; Henry B rower, Secretary; Herman 
Schupp, Treasurer. On the fourth day of November, 1891, 
it purchased a hand engine and hose carriage from Patrick 
Gleason, Mayor of Long Island City, which arrived at Port 
Chester by boat on the twentieth day of November, 1891. 
Through the courtesy of the Putnam Engine Company, and 
the Morris Hose Company, of Port Chester, the apparatus 
was temporarily placed in their building until the seventeenth 
day of December, 1891, when it was transferred to its new 
quarters in one of the buildings of Abendroth Brothers, 
opposite the foundry, on Water Street. 

Milo Mead took a great deal of interest in the company 
and offered to deed it a lot on Mead Avenue for an engine 
house, provided it was called The New Lebanon Engine and 
Hose Company, and at a meeting held in January, 1892, 
this name was adopted. It was incorporated by an act of 
the General Assembly, approved March 29, 1893, whereby 
it was : 

Resolved, that John Boal, James J. Nedley, John A. 
Lowden, Charles O. Frederick, William Dehmer, Herman 
Schupp and William Moller, of East Port Chester, and such 
other persons residing in said East Port Chester as they shall 
associate with them by voluntary enlistment, not exceeding 
one hundred in number, and their successors, are hereby 
incorporated as an engine and hose company, to be located 
in said East Port Chester, by the name of The New Lebanon 
Engine and Hose Company, etc. 

On the failure of Milo Mead to deed the lot to the com- 
pany, its name was changed to The Protection Engine and 
Hose Company by an act of the General Assembly, ap- 
proved June 14, 1893. 

The quarters of this company were so undesirable and 
inaccessible that at the annual town meeting, held on the 
second day of October, 1893, it was: 



388 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Resolved, that a sum not exceeding $2500 be appro- 
priated for the purpose of maintaining a fire department at 
East Port Chester, by providing a house and suitable accom- 
modations for Protection Engine and Hose Company at 
East Port Chester, said property to remain the property of 
the Town of Greenwich. 

The contract for the construction of an engine house was 
given out on the eighth day of November, 1893, and the 
work progressed so rapidly that on the twenty-second day of 
February, 1894, the company took possession of its new 
quarters. The new hook and ladder truck was received on 
the twenty-sixth day of January, 1894, ^^^ the steamer on 
the twenty-first day of July, 1903. The old hand engine 
and hose carriage were conditionally given to the Glenville 
Fire Company on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1903. 

The fire apparatus of this company now consists of a 
steamer, hook and ladder truck, hose carriage, and jumper. 

Officers, 1910, Joseph V. Schupp, Chief Engineer; Eugene 
Conway, ist Assistant Engineer; Frank Bahringer, 2d As- 
sistant Engineer; Rudolph Goettel, Foreman; Chris Wag- 
ner, 1st Assistant Foreman; John Donalton, 2d Assistant 
Foreman; J. Henry Schmehl, Recording Secretary; Robert 
W. Schnautz, Corresponding Secretary; Henry Dehmer, 
Treasurer; and Henry Kahle, Steward. 

MIANUS LADDER AND HOSE COMPANY. 

Incorporated, Aug. 18, 1903. 
Mianus. 

A meeting for the purpose of organizing the Mianus 
Ladder and Hose Company was held in Newman's Hotel on 
the twenty-ninth day of April, 1903. Charles B. Allyn was 
chosen chairman and Daniel Maher, George E. Brush, and 
Benjamin B. Phillips were appointed a committee to prepare 
by-laws and make such arrangements as were necessary for a 
permanent organization, after which the meeting adjourned. 

At an adjourned meeting, held at the same place on the 



Fire Companies 389 

fifth day of May, 1903, the report of the committee was 
accepted and the company formally organized. The follow- 
ing officers were then elected: Charles B. Allyn, President; 
Alva H. Worden, Vice-President; S. Garfield Lowden, Secre- 
tary; George E. Brush, Treasurer; Daniel Maher, Foreman; 
Clarence Boyd, ist Assistant Foreman; Byron T. Newman, 
26. Assistant Foreman; Joseph G. McComb, Sergeant, 

The truck house was built by the Town of Greenwich at 
a cost of $2000 and formally opened on the seventh day of 
Jtdy, 1904. 

Early in 1909, the company ordered an auto fire engine, 
which was delivered on the first day of August, 1909. It 
carries twelve men, six chemical fire extinguishers and hose, 
and has a speed of from fifty to sixty miles an hour. The 
same engine that furnishes the propelling power is shifted by 
a lever to the pumping apparatus, which has a capacity of 
650 gallons per minute. 

The fire apparatus of this company now consists of an 
auto engine, hook and ladder truck, and two jumpers. 

Officers, 1910, Robert L. Chamberlain, President; Samuel 
Lowden, Vice-President; Joseph Maher, Treasurer; Warren 
E. Louden, Secretary; Leroy Eddy, Chief Engineer; George 
P. Clark, 1st Assistant Engineer; Harry J. Duff, 2d Assist- 
ant Engineer; George E. Brush, 3d Assistant Engineer; 
W. A. Wilmot, 4th Assistant Engineer; Frank W. Ferris, 
Foreman; Russell L. Eddy, ist Assistant Foreman; Byron 
T. Newman, 2d iVssistant Foreman; Stephen Selleck, 
Sergeant-at-Arms. 

PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY, NO. I. 

Glenville. 

Protection Engine Company, No. i, was organized at a 
meeting held in the Glenville District Schoolhouse on the 
twentieth day of June, 1903, at which meeting the following 
officers were elected: Thomas J. Darsey, Chief Engineer; 
Andrew Pottgen, Assistant Chief Engineer; John Lowy, 



390 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Foreman; George McKeever, Assistant Foreman; John 
Broderick, Secretary; Thomas F. Howley, Treasurer. 

On the twenty-fifth day of July, 1903, The Protection 
Engine and Hose Company of East Port Chester condition- 
ally donated to this company its old hand engine and hose 
carriage. This old hand engine was made in 1852, and at 
one time was part of the fire apparatus of Long Island City. 
It was purchased from Mayor Gleason of Long Island City 
by The Protection Engine and Hose Company of East Port 
Chester on the fourth day of November, 1891, and is the 
only fire apparatus the company at Glenville has. It was 
first kept in Broderick's Building, but was removed to the 
present truck house on the first day of December, 1904, at 
which time the building was formally opened. 

Officers, 1910, Edward J. Carroll, Chief Engineer ; Joseph 
Donnelly, Assistant Chief Engineer ; Hugh Hassen, Foreman ; 
Percy Higgins, Assistant Foreman; George Hugby, Secre- 
tary; Dominick Donnelly, Treasurer. 

SOUND BEACH HOSE COMPANY, NO. I. 

Sound Beach. 

A meeting for the purpose of organizing the Sound Beach 
Hose Company was held at the district schoolhouse on the 
fourteenth day of April, 1904, principally through the efforts 
of W. J. Guebelle, who was the principal of the Sound Beach 
District School at the time. After some discussion, it was 
considered advisable to adjourn the meeting until the twenty- 
second day of April, 1904, at which adjourned meeting a 
committee, consisting of V\^. W. Scofield, George D. Carey, 
and Benjamin Reilly, was appointed to prepare by-laws. 
The next meeting was held on the twenty-ninth day of 
April, 1904, when the report of the above committee was 
accepted, and the following officers elected: George A. 
Shasty, Foreman; G. Nelson Palmer, ist Assistant Foreman; 
Alden Flood, 2d Assistant Foreman; W. J. Guebelle, Secre- 
tary; George D. Carey, Treasurer. 

At the meeting held on the nineteenth day of June, 1905, 



Libraries 39i 

a site for a truck house was discussed, and it was decided to 
accept the offer of the school district to a lot on the comer of 
West and Sound Beach Avenues. The lot was granted to 
the Town of Greenwich on condition that when it ceased to be 
used for the purposes of the fire company, it was to revert to 
the school district. The building of a truck house was com- 
menced, which was completed and formally opened on the 
sixteenth day of March, 1906. 

The Gamewell fire-alarm system was installed during the 
month of December, 1909. The fire apparatus now consists 
of a truck and two jumpers. 

Officers, 1910, C. D. Potter, President; Alexander J. 
McGauhan, Secretary; George S. Vincent, Treasurer; Charles 
H. Knapp, Foreman; Albert Palmer, ist Assistant Foreman; 
E. J. Wickel, 2d Assistant Foreman. 

cos COB FIRE COMPANY, 

Cos Cob. 

The Cos Cob Fire Company was organized at a meeting 
held in the office of Palmer Brothers on the fourteenth day of 
January, 1909, at which meeting the following officers were 
elected: William Fosby, Foreman; Patrick Hughes, ist As- 
sistant Foreman; William Moxley, 2d Assistant Foreman; 
G. E. Gieser, Secretary and Treasurer. 

The fire apparatus, now consisting of a hose wagon, 
jumper, and hose, is housed in the bam of John Duff. The 
plans for a new truck house are being prepared and it is 
expected that the b lilding will be ready for occupancy in 
the near future. 

Libraries. 

greenwich library, 

formerly the 

GREENWICH READING ROOM AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 

Incorporated, 1878. 

The Greenwich Library is the successor in interest of an 
earlier enterprise in the same direction, originating about 



392 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1 805, which was called the ' ' Town Library. ' ' The following 
is a copy of the subscription list and the names of the sub- 
scribers to the first library.- 

We the subscribers, fully impressed with the utility of 
Library Institutions, as the means of infusing in the minds of 
youths the principles of truth, reHgion and virtue, of checking 
that dissipation and licentiousness of conduct, which natur- 
ally results from ignorance and idleness, of making the 
period of manhood pleasant and useful, and the retirement 
of advancing years satisfactory and dignified, 

Conceiving, therefore, that the dissemination of useful 
knowledge tends to reform the morals, enlighten the under- 
standing, refine the manner and dispose men to the support 
of good government and civil society, we trust that no 
institution will contribute more to these great and important 
ends, than the establishment of a Public Library upon the 
most liberal principles. 

We, therefore, the undersigned, do agree to pay unto such 
person, or persons, who may be fully authorized to receive 
the same the sum of six dollars for each share, we may have 
subscribed to, which money shall be paid by two install- 
ments; that is to say the sum of three dollars at the time 
when thirty persons have subscribed to the above Public 
Library, and the remaining three dollars at the expiration of 
three months after the first payment, which money shall be 
appropriated to the purpose of purchasing books for the 
furnishing of said library, and furthermore, that after thirty 
persons have obligated themselves to become members 
thereof, a meeting shall immediately be called at some con- 
venient place for the purpose of choosing officers to govern 
and promote the institution, and also for enacting whole- 
some laws and regulations for the advancement and well 
being of the same. 

Bush, Samuel, Mead, Abraham, Mead, Zaccheus, 

Cozine, John R., Mead, Ebenezer, Mead, Zenas, 

Davis, Silas, Mead, Ephraim, Mead, Zophar, 

Ferris, Nathaniel, Mead, Jared, Peck, Charles, 

Holmes, Reuben, Jr., Mead, Job, Walker, Timothy, 

Huggeford, Thomas, Mead, Noah, Waring, Stephen, 

Husted, Peter, Jr., Mead, Peter, Willson, Nehemiah. 

Lewis, Beal N., Mead, Richard, 



Libraries 393 

The present library was organized in 1874, and the read- 
ing room was first opened on the eighth day of January, 

1877, on the second floor of the building on the northeast 
comer of Greenwich Avenue and Lewis Street. It was 
incorporated by an act of the General Assembly passed in 

1878, whereby it was: 

Resolved, that Frank Shepard, Edward Brush, Luther P. 
Hubbard, Myron L. Mason, Henry B. Marshall, J. M. Mor- 
ton, S. S. Morton, Jennie Morton, James Charles, Charles R. 
Treat, F. M. Holly, M.D., John Voorhis, Edward J. Wright, 
S. C. A. Redfield, Lila A, Manvil, Sadie Mead, Jeannette 
Linsley Pinneo, Mary M. Miller, Mary T. Hubbard, Carrie 
E. Shepard, Fred A. Hubbard, and all others who are now 
members of the voluntary association known as The Green- 
wich Reading Room and Library Association, etc., be and 
they hereby are constituted a body corporate and politic by 
the name of The Greenwich Reading Room and Library 
Association, etc. 

In June, 1884, the library was removed to larger quarters 
on the second floor of the building on the southeast comer of 
Greenwich Avenue and Lewis Street. It remained in this 
building until the completion of the present library building 
on the easterly side of Greenwich Avenue, which is the gift of 
Mrs. A. A. Anderson in memory of her mother, the late Mrs. 
Jeremiah Milbank, into which it moved on the seventeenth 
day of January, 1896. 

The General Assembly passed a further resolution in 
1899, whereby it was: 

Resolved, that Edward Bmsh, Nelson B. Mead, AmeHa 
Mead, Fanny H. Jones, Thomas Ritch, Hobart B. Jacobs, 
John T. Perkins and Washington Choate, all of Greenwich, 
and such other persons as shall be associated with them, and 
their successors, be and they are hereby constituted a body 
politic and corporate by the name of The Greenwich Reading 
Room and Library Association, etc. 

In 1901, a permanent endowment fund of $25,000 was 
raised through the generous contributions of prominent citi- 



394 Ve Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

zens of the town, which enables the officers of the association 
to manage it as a free reading room and Hbrary. 

At the January Session of the General Assembly, 1907, 
the name was authorized to be changed to the Greenwich 
Library. 

Officers, 1910, Nelson B. Mead, President; Dr. A. J. 
Wakeman, Vice-President; Hobart B. Jacobs, Secretary; 
John T. Perkins, Treasurer; Mary M. Miller, Librarian. 

PERROT MEMORIAL LIBRARY. 

Sound Beach. 

The Perrot Memorial Library was organized in January, 
1905. by several of the prominent residents of Sound Beach, 
and first opened on the first day of February, 1905, in a room 
in the district schoolhouse which had been fitted up for that 
purpose. The books were the gift of Annie Decamp Porter, 
wife of Hon. Henry Kirke Porter of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania, a great-granddaughter of John Perrot, who is said to 
have opened the first private school in Greenwich, Old Town, 
now Sound Beach, in 1766, and the library was named in his 
memory. The library is open Tuesday and Friday after- 
noons from two until five. It recently purchased a lot near 
the truck house and is planning to erect a building in the 
near future. 

Officers, 1910, Wells McMaster, President; Eugene Pal- 
mer, Secretary; Irving Ferris, Treasurer; and Kate Mercer, 
Librarian. 

Schools. 

The first public schoolhouse in the Town of Greenwich 
was built in 1667, and was located near the old cemetery in 
the old Sound Beach School District. At a town meeting 
held on the fourteenth day of October, 1667, it was "agreed 
uppon and voted that the scoolmaster's sum for teaching 
scoole must be payd according to ye number of scoullars 
that went to scoole." 



Public Schools 395 

As soon as the settlement in different parts of the town 
warranted it, additional public schools were established, so 
that as early as 1756 there were nine school districts in the 
Town of Greenwich, namely: Greenwich, Old Town; Horse- 
neck; Cos Cob; North Street; Pecksland; Round Hill; 
Quaker Ridge; Stanwich; and Glenville. These were orig- 
inally governed by a committee appointed by the church 
society, and in 1756 the Horseneck Society, now the Second 
Congregational Church, appointed the following committees 
for the public schools within that parish, viz. : 

Horseneck, Dr. Amos Mead and Daniel Smith. 
Cos Cob, Benjamin Treen and Epenetus Holmes. 
North Street, Caleb Mead and Nathaniel Mead. 
Pecksland, Theophilus Peck and Isaac Howe. 
Round Hill, Jonathan Knapp, Jr., and Ezekiel Lockwood. 
Quaker Ridge, Eliphalet Mead and John Close. 
Glenville, No record. 

Greenwich, Old Town, and Stanwich were in different 
parishes. 

The public schoolhouse in Horseneck, now called the 
Meeting House School District, was first erected on the 
northerly side of Putnam Avenue, about midway between 
the Second Congregational Church and the present Sher- 
wood Place. In 1841 it was removed to the westerly side of 
Mechanic Street (now Sherwood Place), a short distance 
north of Putnam Avenue. It was replaced by a new building 
in 1853, which was abandoned in 1894, ^^^ torn down in 
January, 1900, the present public-school building at the 
comer of Greenwich Avenue and Arch Street taking its 
place. The old school bell is now in the tower of the Volun- 
teer Fire Company. 

The new school building was the gift of the late Henry O. 
Havemeyer, and on the twenty-ninth day of November, 
1909, his cliildren created a trust fund of $27,000. The in- 
come from which is to be used for the maintenance of the 
Meeting House Public School building, which some people 
now call the Havemeyer School. 



396 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Early in 1894 an effort was made to start a night school 
at East Port Chester, and at a special town meeting, held on 
the third day of February, 1894, it was: 

Resolved, that the sum of $500 (or so much thereof as 
may be necessary) be and the same is hereby appropriated to 
be paid from the treasury of this town for the maintenance of 
night schools for the present year. 

The school districts at the time of consoHdation in 1910 
were: 

Sound Beach, South Stanwich, Byram, 

Mianus, North Stanwich, Pemberwick, 

North Mianus, Banksville, Glenville, 

Cos Cob, Clapboard Ridge, King Street, 

North Cos Cob, Pecksland, Riversville, 

Meeting House, Round Hill, North Greenwich. 

North Street, New Lebanon, 

The General Assembly in 1909 passed an act providing 
for the consolidation of the different school districts in any 
town, which does not seem to be obligatory. However, the 
Town of Greenwich, so far as its schools were concerned, 
voted to consolidate the districts at the annual town meeting 
held on the fourth day of October, 1909. At a special town 
meeting held on the sixth day of June, 1910, the following 
school committee was elected : 

Beam, George E., Lanier, Henry W., 

Carmichael, George E., Peck, Albert C, 

Dayton, Henry, Rossbottom, Thomas H. 

On the first day of August, 1910, Edwin C. Andrews was 
engaged as superintendent of the public schools under the 
Consolidation Act. 

HIGH SCHOOL. 

At the annual town meeting, held on the third day of 
October, 1904, it was: 



Private Schools 597 

Resolved, that a High School be established in this town, 
and that Henry Dayton, John D. Barrett and James 
McCutcheon be appointed a committee to report on location 
and cost of same, and submit plans of structure and cost of 
same at a special meeting to be called, and that all expenses 
in connection therewith be paid by the town. 

The above committee reported at a special town meeting 
held on the eighteenth day of February, 1905, as regards 
location and plans for a building, which were accepted and 
said committee authorized to purchase a site for the Town 
High School, and to make the necessary contracts for the 
construction of a building for the Town High School along 
the lines indicated in their report. By an amendment, John 
Dayton and R. Jay Walsh were added to the foregoing High- 
School committee. 

The High School is located at the corner of Havemeyer 
Place, Mason Street, and Milbank Avenue, and was opened 
on the first Monday of October, 1906. 

THE GREENWICH ACADEMY. 

Incorporated, 1827. Amended, 1903. 

The Greenwich Academy had its inception in a sub- 
scription paper circulated in 1826. The project met with so 
much success that it was deemed advisable to incorporate 
the institution, therefore a petition was forwarded to the 
General Assembly, which, in 1827, 

Resolved, that Alvan Mead, William H. Mead, Thomas 
A. Mead, William Lester, Justus L. Bush, Ebenezer Mead, 
Darius Mead, Jr., Joseph Brush, Daniel Merritt, John Jay 
Tracy, Jabez Mead, Jr., Augustus Lyon, Benjamin D. Knapp 
and Albert Knapp, and all others who are, or shall hereafter 
become associated with them and their successors and 
assigns, be and they hereby are made, constituted and 
established a body corporate and politic, by the name of 
The Greenwich Academy, etc. 

The academy was originally located on the comer of 
Maple and Putnam Avenues, but was removed to its present 



398 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

site on the easterly side of Maple Avenue during the summer 
of 1905. 

NORTH GREENWICH ACADEMY. 

Incorporated, 1834. 

The North Greenwich Academy was created by an act of 
the General Assembly passed May, 1834, whereby it was: 

Resolved, that Obadiah Peck, Isaac Peck, Obadiah 
Mead, Silas H. Mead and all others, who now are, or shall 
hereafter become associated with them and their successors 
and assigns, be and they are hereby made, constituted and 
established a body politic and corporate by the name of 
The Proprietors of the North Greenwich Academy, etc. 

The academy continued in existence until about 1862, 
when, owing to lack of pupils, it was abandoned, 

PERROT SCHOOL. 

The first private school in the Town of Greenwich is said 
to have been opened in 1766, by John Perrot, son of James 
Perrot of St. Martin's in the Fields, City of Westminster, 
and Kingdom of Great Britain. He was bom in 1728, and 
married in Greenwich, Feb. 15, 1764, Hannah, widow of 
Merryday Bostwick, and daughter of Captain Elnathan 
Hanford of Norwalk, Connecticut. His wife in 1773 was 
Hannah, widow of David Lockwood. The school was 
located in the old Sound Beach School District, and 
was continued by him until the Revolutionary War, when 
he "having gone over to and joined the enemy, his estate 
was declared forfeited and confiscated." 

GRAHAM SCHOOL. 

In 1833, Cornelia J. Graham and Mary E. Graham con- 
ducted a private school on the northerly side of Putnam 
Avenue immediately west of the Second Congregational 
Church, which is now known as the " Elms, " and is run as a 
boarding-house. 



Private Schools 399 



HOWE S SCHOOL. 



Lewis Howe, A.M., a graduate of Yale College, bom 
Aug. 6, 1827, acquired an interest in the Graham School, 
and conducted it as a school for boys, under his own name, 
from 1847 until his death, which occurred July 3, 1857. 



HESS S SCHOOL. 



In 1857, Mrs. Hess conducted a kindergarten on Me- 
chanic Street, now Sherwood Place. 



NEWMAN S SCHOOL. 

In 1857, Miss Elathea Newman conducted a private 
school at Mianus. 

peck's school for boys. 

Harry Peck, who was bom in Bethel, Connecticut, in 
18 1 8, removed to the Borough of Greenwich, in 1861, where 
he opened a school for boys on the northerly side of Putnam 
Avenue immediately west of the Second Congregational 
Church, formerly conducted by Mr. Howe. The school was 
continued until 1869, when it was temporarily closed, but it 
was reopened in 1872, and continued until 1881, when it was 
finally discontinued. Mr. Peck died in Greenwich, in April, 
1887. 

DR. PINNEO'S FAMILY SCHOOL FOR BOYS. 

Timothy Stone Pinneo, M.D., was bom at Milford, 
Connecticut, Feb. 18, 1804. He was a man of very varied 
learning and true culture, the author of a famous series of 
grammars, composition books, and the compiler of the well- 
known McGuffey's Readers. He was a graduate of Yale 
Classical School and also of its Medical School. He went 
south and then west to practise medicine, but later devoted 
himself to the more congenial labors of a literary life. He 



400 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

was at one time a professor in Marietta College, Ohio. He 
married Jeannette, daughter of Rev. Joel H. Linsley, Presi- 
dent of Marietta College from 1835 to 1845, and pastor of the 
Second Congregational Church, Borough of Greenwich, from 
1847 to 1868. 

He opened a school for boys in the fall of 1876 on the 
northeasterly comer of Greenwich Avenue and Elm Street, 
which he conducted until June, 1887, when it was discon- 
tinued. He died at Norwalk, Connecticut, Aug. 2, 1893. 

ROSEMARY HALL. 

Incorporated, 1900. 

Rosemary Hall, a young ladies' boarding-school, formerly 
at Wallingford, Connecticut, purchased six acres of land at 
Rock Ridge, in December, 1899, and erected thereon a school 
and gymnasium, which were formally opened on the thirty- 
first day of October, 1900. It was incorporated under and by 
virtue of the laws of the State of Connecticut on the nine- 
teenth day of November, 1900, for the purpose of establish- 
ing, maintaining, and conducting a private school, etc., under 
the name of The Rosemary Hall Corporation. Since the 
opening of the school the corporation has purchased more 
adjoining land so that now it is the owner of about twenty- 
five acres. The school is conducted by the Head-mistress, 
Caroline Ruutz-Rees, Ph.D. 

The chapel connected with this school was consecrated on 
the eighteenth day of October, 1909, by the Right Rev. 
Chauncey B. Brewster, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church for the Diocese of Connecticut. 

BRUNSWICK SCHOOL. 

Incorporated, 1905. 

The Brunswick School was originally situated on the 
westerly side of Milbank Avenue on the property now occu- 
pied by The Greenwich Hospital Association, and first 



Churches — Congregational 401 

opened on the twentieth day of September, 1902, under the 
auspices of George E. Carmichael, A.B., Headmaster, as a 
school exclusively for boys. It was incorporated iinder and 
by virtue of the laws of the State of Connecticut on the 
twenty-fifth day of April, 1905, under the name of the 
Brunswick School, Incorporated, for the purpose of establish- 
ing in Greenwich a school for boys only, to give a thorough 
primary and secondary education. 

Its present site on Maher Avenue was purchased during 
the summer of 1905, and the erection of the present school 
building commenced early in August, 1905, which was 
formally opened on the fifth day of February, 1906. 

The school is conducted by George E. Carmichael, A.B., 
Headmaster. 

THE ELY SCHOOL. 

The Misses Ely School for young ladies, formerly located 
on Riverside Drive, near 85th Street, in the City of New 
York, purchased twenty-five acres of land on the easterly 
side of North Street in 1905, and erected thereon a school 
building, which contains a gymnasium and an auditorium. 
It was formally opened on the sixteenth day of October, 
1906, as a boarding-school for young ladies, and is conducted 
by EHzabeth S. Ely and Mary B. Ely. 

Churches, 

first congregational church. ' 

Greenwich, Old Town, now Sound Beach. 

Incorporated by an Act of the General Court, passed in 1665. 

The first religious services in the Town of Greenwich, as 
appears from the Records of the New Haven Colony, were held 

^Historical Discourses, by Rev. Frank S. Childs, published in 1879, and in 
1895, and also preceding pages of this volume. 
26 



402 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

as early as 1658 in the houses of the settlers; but after the 
construction of a schoolhouse in 1667, that became the cen- 
tral meeting place for the inhabitants, and also the place of 
worship. 

The First Congregational Church and Society, however, 
were created by an act of the General Court passed at the 
May Session, 1665, as follows, "upon ye motion and desire 
of ye people of Greenwich, this court doth declare that 
Greenwich shall be a township intire of itself, provided they 
procure and maintain an orthodox minister, and in the 
meantime and until that be effected they are to attend ye 
ministry at Stamford." 

The town meeting, held on the ninth day of November, 
1 69 1, considered for the first time the necessity for a church 
and appointed the following building committee: John 
Hobby, Sr., John Mead, Sr., John Mead, Jr., Samuel Peck, 
John Reynolds, Daniel Smith. 

A subsequent meeting, held in 1694, decided that the 
meeting-house should be thirty-two feet long by twenty- six 
feet wide, and stand on the hill between the houses of Daniel 
Smith and Ephraim Palmer, which site was near the old bury- 
ing-ground, southeasterly from the present edifice, and on 
the Sound side of the point. 

On the tenth day of August, 1734, the society voted to 
build a new meeting-house to "be erected in the place where 
the old meeting-house stood," and at the session of the 
General Assembly held in May, 1736, it appropriated $250 
out of the public treasury to be used for finishing the 
church. 

The third edifice was erected in 1791, and stood on the 
same site as the former churches. During the latter part of 
the eighteenth century, it was customary to petition the 
legislature for the privilege of holding a lottery in aid of some 
religious, charitable, or educational work. Such a privilege 
was granted to the society and the following advertisement 
appeared in the Farmer's Journal, published at Danbury, 
February 15, 1791. 



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Scheme for Lottery. ^ 

For raising the remainder of the sum granted by the 
General Assembly for the benefit of the First Society of the 
Town of Greenwich. 

Third Class. 

1200 tickets at one dollar each is 1200 dollars. 

To be drawn in prizes as therein enumerated. 

The drawing is to begin by the fifth day of April next, 
or sooner, if the tickets are disposed of, and the fortunate 
adventurers punctually paid. 

Stamford, January 22, 1791. 

Jabez Fitch, William Fitch and Elihu P. Smith, 

Managers. 

Tickets 

in the above lottery may be had of the managers and at the 
printing office, Danbury. 

The fourth edifice was completed in 1837, ^^'^ stood only 
a short distance south of the present church building. It 
was destroyed by fire on the seventh day of December, 1895. 

The corner-stone of the fifth, the present, edifice was laid 
on the twenty-ninth day of October, 1895, and the dedication 
of the completed structure was solemnized on the twenty- 
fifth day of June, 1896. 

The earliest church, or society, records extant are those 
commenced at the time of the installation of the Rev. John 
Noyes on the twentieth day of September, 18 10. The 
society is still maintained. 

Pastors. 

Rev. Eliphalet Jones, 1669 to 1673. 
Rev. William Leverich, 1673 to 1676. 
Rev. Jeremiah Peck, 1678 to 1691. 
Rev. Abraham Pierson, 1691 to 1694. 
Rev. Solomon Treat, 1695 to 1697. 

' Ilurd's History of Fairfield County, published in 1881. 



404 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Rev. Joseph Morgan, 1697 to 1700. 

Rev. Nathaniel Bowers, 1700 to 1708. 

Rev. John Jones, 1709 to 1710, settled for seven months and 
,t^ afterwards sued the society for his salary. 

Rev. Richard Sackett, 171 5 to 171 7. 

Rev. Ephraim Bostwick, 1730 to 1746, 

In 1755, the church having been without a pastor for 
nearly nine years and being destitute of any settled 
gospel minister, and unable of themselves to settle and 
support one among them, the Associated Pastors of 
the Churches of Christ in the Western District in the 
County of Fairfield, brought the matter before the 
General Assembly, and it was proposed to annex this 
parish to the Parish of Horseneck. A committee was 
appointed to view the state and circumstances of each 
of said parishes, and after due consideration the matter 
was amicably settled and the two parishes were allowed 
to continue as heretofore. 

Rev. Ebenezer Davenport, 1763 to 1769. 

Rev. Robert Morris, 1785 to 1794. 

Rev. Piatt Buffett and Rev. Abner Benedict, acting pastors 
from 1794 to 1800. 

Rev. Samuel Sturges, 1800 to 1807. 

Rev. Mark Mead and Rev. Simon Backus, acting pastors 
from 1807 to 1 810. 

Rev. John Noyes, 1810 to 1824. 

Rev. Charles F. Butler, 1824 to 1834. 

Rev. Thomas Payne, 1836 to 1842. 

Rev. S. B. S. Bissell, 1842 to 1853. 

Rev. William A. Hyde, 1854 to 1864. 

Rev. William P. Arms, acting pastor 1864 to 1866. 

Rev. William P. Hammond, 1867 to 1872. 

Rev. J. S. Bayne, 1872 to 1876. 

Rev. Granville W. Nims, 1876 to 1878. 

Rev. Prank S. Childs, installed Feb. 27, 1879, dismissed Aug. 
30, 1881. 

Rev. Martin Kellogg, called Dec. 17, 1882, resigned March 7, 
1886. 

Rev. Albert W. Lightboum, called Sept. i, 1886, resigned 
Sept. I, 1888. 

Rev. Albert E. Kinmouth, called Feb. 3, 1889, resigned 
March i, 1892. 

Rev. A. Lincoln Shear, called Nov. 9, 1892, resigned June 20, 
1894. 



Churches — Congregational 405 

Rev. De Witt C. Eccleston, called Sept., 1894, resigned Oct. 

I, 1910. 
Rev. Lewis W. Barney, called June i, 191 1. 

SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. ^ 

Horseneck, now Borough of Greenwich. 
Incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly, passed in 

1705. 

Title to that tract of land originally known as Horseneck, 
now the Borough of Greenwich, was purchased of the Indians 
in 1672, and settlement thereof immediately commenced. 
In the year 1696, the settlement had increased so rapidly 
that the Rev. Solomon Treat, pastor of the First Congrega- 
tional Church, held mission services here one Sabbath out of 
every three. ^ In 1701 the inhabitants felt the need of a 
meeting-house in the settlement, and at a town meeting, held 
on the twentieth day of March of the same year, a meeting- 
house was authorized to be built between the houses of John 
Reynolds and Angell Husted, Jr., in all respects like the 
meeting-house at Greenwich, Old Town, which was thirty- 
two feet long by twenty-six feet wide. The building com- 
mittee was Thomas Close, Sr., Joshua Knapp, and Ebenezer 
Mead. The church was erected about on the site of the 
present edifice, and within the parish lines of the First Soci- 
ety. It soon became evident that one minister could not 
satisfactorily attend to the spiritual needs of the two settle- 
ments. So the General Assembly, at the session held during 
May, 1705, passed an act creating the Second Congrega- 
tional Church and Society, divided the town into two 
ecclesiastical societies, and defined their parish lines. The 
First Society being on "ye East sid of sd Myanos River," and 
the Second Society being on "ye West sid of sd Myanos 
River." 

In 1732, the church had outgrown its quarters and a sec- 

^ Historical Discourse, by Rev. Joel Linsley, published in 1867, and also 
preceding pages of this volume. 
" Minutes of Town Meetings. 



4o6 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

ond edifice was erected, fifty feet by thirty-five feet, similar in 
architecture to the first, but surmounted with a turret, which 
was taken down in 1 749, owing, it was claimed, to a display of 
too much vanity. This structure gave way to a third meet- 
ing-house, which was dedicated on the seventh day of Janu- 
ary, 1799. The foundations for the fourth structure, the 
present edifice, were laid in 1856, and the building completed 
and dedicated on the eighth day of December, 1858. Iti 
interior was remodelled in 1901, and rededicated on the third 
day of December, 1901. The chapel adjoining the church 
was dedicated on the fourteenth day of April, 1907. 

All the church edifices have been erected on nearly the 
same site as the present church. The society was abolished 
in 1900. 

The church records are in a good state of preservation, 
except those kept during the pastorate of Rev. Abraham 
Todd, 1733 to 1773, which were burned during the Revolu- 
tionary War by tories, who plundered the house of Benjamin 
Peck of Clapboard Ridge, at that time the clerk of the 
church. 

Pastors. 

Rev. Joseph Morgan, installed 1705, dismissed 1708, for 

devoting too much time running his grist-mill on 

Strickland Brook at Cos Cob. 
Rev. Richard Sackett, installed Nov. 2^, ijij. "He died 

very suddenly on May 7, 1727. He was well on the 

Sabbath, May 6, and preached all day, and on Monday 

night following departed this life, leaving his church 

then consisting of ten males. " 
Rev. Stephen Munson, installed May 29, 1728, dismissed 

Dec, 1733. 
Rev. Abraham Todd, installed 1733, died in 1773. 
Rev. Jonathan Murdock, installed June 3, 1774, dismissed 

March 3, 1785, for being a tory. 
Rev. Isaac Lewis, installed Oct. 18, 1786, dismissed Dec. i, 

1818. 
Rev. Isaac Lewis, Jr., installed Dec. i, 1818, dismissed 

April 16, 1828. 




SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 



Churches — Congregational 407 

Rev. Noah C. Saxton and Rev. Albert Judson, acting pastors 

for about two years, 1828 to 1830. 
Rev. Joel Mann, installed Sept. i, 1830, dismissed Aug. 23, 

1836. 
Rev. Noah Coe, installed May 2^, 1837, dismissed May 20, 

1845- 

Rev. Frederick G. Clark, Rev. Ebenezer Mead, and Rev. 
George Bushnell, acting pastors for about two years, 
1845 to 1847. 

Rev. Joel Linsley, installed Dec. 8, 1847, retired June 19, 
1863. 

Rev. W. H. H. Murray, acting pastor, Dec. 4, 1864, to Oct. 
28, 1866. 

Rev. Frederick G. Clark, D.D., called April 24, 1867, dis- 
missed May 13, 1 87 1. 

Rev. Horace James, called July 24, 1871, dismissed Sept. 30, 

1873. 
Rev. Charles R. Treat, called Dec. 29, 1873, dismissed March 

8, 1880. 
Rev. George A. Gordon, called Nov, 22, 1880, dismissed 

Jan. 24, 1884. 
Rev. Edward C. Porter, called March 14, 1884, dismissed 

Nov. 21, 1887. 
Rev. Washington Choate, called April 23, 1888, dismissed 

Dec. I, 1 891. 
Rev. Russell T. Hall, called Dec. 7, 1891, dismissed Nov. 24, 

1897. 
Rev. Walter H. Barrows, called March 16, 1898, died on 

Aug. 10, 1899. 
Rev. Joseph H. Selden, D.D., installed June 28, 1900, 

resigned June 11, 191 1. 

STANWICH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. ' 

Incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly, passed in 

1732. 

The Stanwich Society was organized at a meeting of the 
inhabitants of the northwestern part of the Town of Stam- 
ford and the northeastern part of the Town of Greenwich 
held in ye North Street Schoolhouse early in 1731, at which 

' Manuals published in 1850, and in 1902, and also preceding pages of this 
volume. 



4o8 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

there was an agreement entered into whereby the several 
contributors to said society agreed to contribute the several 
sums set opposite their respective names toward the building 
of a "Prisbeterian Meeting Hous, " as the Congregational 
Church was frequently called in those days. One of the 
contributors, Jonathan Asten (Austin), deeded to said society 
a tract of land six rods square on which the present church 
edifice now stands. The deed is dated April 6, 1731, and is 
recorded in the land records of the Town of Greenwich, 

The parish, as originally established in 1732, began at the 
eight-mile line, or division line between the Colony of Con- 
necticut and the Province of New York, at the partition line 
between Stamford and Horseneck, and ran easterly by said 
eight-mile line three miles, and westerly by said line one and 
one half-miles, and southerly by said partition line between 
Stamford and Horseneck four miles, and thence parallel with 
said eight-mile line three miles into Horseneck, and one and 
one half miles into Stamford. 

The first meeting-house, which was thirty- two feet long by 
twenty-six feet wide, was erected in 1732, This was torn 
down in 1804, and a new edifice erected on the same site, fifty 
feet long and thirty-eight feet wide, which was dedicated the 
same year. In 1857 the meeting-house was enlarged to its 
present size. The society was abolished in 1894. 

All the records of the church and society, prior to 1796, 
were destroyed by fire in 1821. 

Pastors. 

Rev. Benjamin Strong, installed June 17, 1735, dismissed 

March 3, 1767. 
Rev. William Seward, installed Feb. 24, 1774, dismissed Feb. 

4. 1794- 
Rev. Piatt Buffett, installed May 25, 1796, dismissed June 3, 

1835. 
Rev. Daniel B. Butts, installed Oct. 2, 1839, dismissed Dec. 

6, 1842. 
Rev. Alonzo R. Rich, installed April 26, 1848, dismissed Nov. 

3. 1852 



Churches — Congregational 409 

Rev. Henry G. Jessup, installed April 26, 1853, dismissed 

Sept. 30, 1862. 
Rev. George W. Timlow and Rev. P. H. Hollister, acting 

pastors, 1863 to 1866. 
Rev. John S. Bane, installed May 18, 1869, dismissed Oct. 8, 

1872. 
Rev. John C. Houghton, acting pastor, 1873 to 1875. 
Rev. Homer J. Broadwell, installed June 15, 1875, dismissed 

Sept. 14, 1878. 
Rev. Frank C. Potter, installed Dec. 16, 1879, dismissed 

Sept., 1896. 
Rev. Gilbert B. Shaw, acting pastor, March, 1897, to Sept. i, 

1899. 
Rev. Matthew Patton, acting pastor, Oct. i, 1899, to Jan. i, 

1910. 

NORTH GREENWICH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. ^ 

Organized, 1826. 

The ridge's first name was Byram Long Ridge. It was 
first settled by a Quaker early in 1700, who owned a large 
part of it, so the name was changed to "Quaker Ridge." 
His name was John Marshall and his house stood about 
opposite the present church. 

On account of the rapid growth of the southern part of 
the town its inhabitants kept spreading farther and farther 
north, so that, in 1728, Benjamin Mead from the Second 
Congregational Church came and settled on the ridge south 
of the church, where the old house now stands. He was 
followed by others from the same church: Eliphalet Mead, 
who -settled where Captain Caleb Merritt's old house now 
stands, a short distance north of Benjamin Mead; Silas 
Mead, in 1750, settled a short distance west of the church, 
and Zebediah Mead settled just east of the church on the Cross 
Road to Round Hill. In 1797, these four families had 

' The data from which the greater part of this article is compiled is taken 
from a Historical Sketch of the Congregational Church at North Greenwich, pre- 
pared by Deacon Silas Hervey Mead, of North Greenwich, bora in 1796, and 
read by him at its semi-centennial celebration on the twenty-fifth day of De- 
cember, 1877. 



410 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

increased to six, and at that time Calvin Mead, bom in 1760, 
of Quaker Ridge, and Joshua Mead, bom in 175 1, of Round 
Hill, with his wife, united with the Second Congregational 
Church at Horseneck. Gilbert Close and his wife, Charlotte, 
united with the same church in 1801. 

The society (parish) lines were fixed by acts of the 
General Assembly. The First Society extended west as far 
as the Mianus River and north to the Parish of Stanwich, 
which was created by an act of the General Assembly passed 
during the May Session of 1732. The Second Society 
extended east to the Mianus River; thence north to the 
Parish of Stanwich ; thence west along the Parish of Stanwich 
to Round Hill, just below Calvary Episcopal Church ; thence 
northerly and parallel with the west bounds of Greenwich to 
the New York State line, so that Quaker Ridge and the 
lower part of Round Hill were included with the bounds of 
the Second Society. Prior to the "Toleration Act, " passed 
in 1798, it was required "that every person should attend 
public worship on Sunday, Fast Day and Thanksgiving Day 
under penalty of five shillings, and that all the inhabitants of 
each town, or society, were to be taxed to support its minis- 
ters." This act exempted members of other religious denom- 
inations from being taxed to support the Congregational 
churches, which they previously were compelled to do unless 
excused by some legislative act. 

In the fall of 1816, a young man by the name of Peter 
Lockwood, a theological student, came to Horseneck and 
held evening meetings, while the Rev. Isaac Lewis preached 
on the Sabbath. There was quite a revival in religion, and 
several from Quaker Ridge were admitted to the church. 
In 1817, the Rev. Dr. Lewis, now about seventy years of age, 
felt that he must give up his charge as pastor, and soon after 
resigned. He was succeeded by his son. In the fall of 1822, 
another young man by the name of Brinsmade came and 
held evening meetings, and another revival followed, a great 
deal larger than the one of a few years previous when a 
large number were admitted to the church, and of course a 



Churches — Congregational 411 

number from Quaker Ridge, and there was some talk of 
building a meeting-house on the ridge and also a Methodist 
Meeting-House at Round Hill. Time, however, passed on 
until after the harvest (fall) of 1826, and nothing had been 
done in either place. The time now seemed opportune for 
organization, so a meeting was called to be held at the house 
of Jehiel Mead, bom in 1742, which stood on the Cross Road 
to Round Hill, a short distance east of the present church, to 
take into consideration what should be done in relation to 
building a meeting-house, and further to take such action as 
was thought best. Thirteen people representing eleven fam- 
ilies attended, and it was unanimously voted to build a meet- 
ing-house, and the necessary committees were thereupon 
duly appointed for that purpose. Soon after a carpenter 
was consulted and asked to look at the Stanwich Meeting- 
House, as it was nearest the size the committee had agreed 
upon to have built. The plans finally adopted called for a 
house fifty feet long by thirty-eight feet wide. During the 
winter of 1 826-1 827 the people of Quaker Ridge cut and 
hauled all the timbers for the meeting-house to the site where 
it was to stand, which is on the site of the present church, 
and religious meetings were started and held at different 
houses on the ridge. On the first day of March, 1827, the 
building of the meeting-house commenced. The carpenters 
were boarded free of charge by the six families living nearest 
to the meeting-house, each family taking them for a week at 
a time. The names of the families were Obadiah Mead, 
Jehiel Mead, Darius Mead, Levi Mead, Calvin Mead, and 
Silas H. Mead. The meeting-house was finished, painted, 
furnished, paid for, and dedicated on Christmas Day, 
1827. 

The revision of the laws of the State of Connecticut, and 
the adoption of the constitution in 18 18, annulled all previous 
acts of the General Assembly in regard to parish bounds, and 
provided for the organization of societies for public worship. 
The church at North Greenwich was organized under these 
provisions. It is a voluntary association of individuals 



412 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

formed for public worship under the name of the North 
Greenwich Society and the North Greenwich Congregational 
Church. The society was organized on the twenty-sixth 
day of April, 1827. Two years after the completion of the 
church, a parsonage was erected by the society. It stands 
directly south of the church. 

The congregation the first winter was one hundred and 
forty. The Rev. Chauncey Wilcox was called as its first 
preacher and occupied the pulpit on the first Sunday in 1828. 
The first meeting-house was destroyed by fire in 1895, and 
the present church edifice was finished and dedicated on the 
tenth day of February, 1897. The society is still maintained. 
The church records are kept in excellent shape. 

Pastors. 

Rev. Chauncey Wilcox, installed June 25, 1828, dismissed 

May 5, 1846, died Jan. 31, 1852, in his 55th year. 
Rev. Frederick Munson, ordained and installed Sept. 22, 

1847, dismissed April 22, 1856. 
Rev. John Blood, installed Nov. 11, 1856, dismissed Oct. 12, 

1858. 
Rev. William H. Knouse, ordained and installed May 4, 1859, 

dismissed May 3, 1863. 
Rev. Lemuel S. Potwin, acting pastor from Sept. 4, 1863, to 

March i, 1865. 
Rev. Solomon R. Schofield, acting pastor from May 2, 1865, 

to May I, 1867. 
Rev. William P. Alcott, ordained and installed Feb. 18, 1868, 

dismissed Aug. 4, 1874. 
Rev. Alpheus Winter, acting pastor from Nov, 14, 1874, 

installed June 27, 1876, dismissed July 16, 1878. 
Rev. Richard B. Bull, acting pastor from Sept. i, 1878, to 

July 31, 1881. 
Rev. Richard B. Thurston, installed Nov. 21, 1882, resigned 

Dec. I, 1887, dismissed Feb. 19, 1888. 
Rev. Charles E. Hoyt, acting pastor from Feb. 21, 1888, to 

Sept. 30, 1890. 
Rev. Levi Rodgers, acting pastor from Nov. 16, 1890. 

Present minister. 



Churches — Congregational 413 

NORTH MIANUS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. ' 

Started as a Sunday School in 1850. Organized as a Church 

in 1897. 

The North Mianus Congregational Church was originally 
started in 1850, in the Steep Hollow District Schoolhouse, 
by Mr. Stickney and others from Stamford, as a Sunday 
School. It was kept up for about two summers and then given 
up. In 1852, the Rev. S. B. S. Bissell and others from 
Greenwich, Old Town, now Sound Beach, and Mianus, 
started it again, and after continuing it for three summers 
abandoned the undertaking. 

In the spring of 1856, Miss Beers, who was teaching in 
the district, with the aid of Miss Ritch, started it again in the 
schoolhouse, and invited the Rev. William A. Hyde and 
Deacon Hawes, of the First Congregational Church, and 
others to help them. The number of pupils began to increase 
and the schoolhouse was soon so crowded that it was decided 
to build a chapel, which was erected in 1858 on the site where 
the church edifice now stands, and it was known as the Union 
Sunday School Chapel, Steep Hollow. The undertaking 
was supported by Philander Button and Moses Cristy of the 
Second Congregational Church, who were respectively super- 
intendents of the Sunday School for a number of years. 
Others also from the Second Congregational Church assisted 
in the work. 

At a meeting held on the twelfth day of January, 1897, it 
was decided to organize a church, which is a voluntary 
association of individuals formed for public worship under 
the name of the North Mianus Congregational Church. 

The building was remodelled in November, 1898. 

Pastors. 

Rev. Arthur E. Davis, Feb. i, 1897, to July 30, 1898. 

Rev. William W. Davidson, Oct. 30, 1898, to Feb. i, 1900. 

'Kurd's History of Fairfield County, published in 1881. 



414 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Rev. Grove F. Ekine, April i, 1902, to April i, 1904. 
Rev. William H. Smith, April i, 1905, to Oct. i, 1906. 
Rev. J. F. Schneider, Jan. i, 1907, to May 25, 1907. 
Rev. C. M. Calderwood, July 25, 1907, to June 17, 1908. 
Rev. Samuel E. Dunham, July 6, 1908. 

SWEDISH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 

Organized, 1904. 

The Swedish Congregational Church was organized dur- 
ing the month of August, 1904, as a branch of the church at 
Stamford, and is not considered as a separate charge. The 
first services were held in a hall on the westerly side of Green- 
wich Avenue, near Grigg Street, and were continued in the 
same place for one year. On the last Sunday of August, 1905, 
the services were held in the Second Congregational Church, 
Borough of Greenwich, where they have been continually 
held until the present time. 

Ministers. 

Rev. K. F. Olsen, 1904 to 1906. 
Rev. Mr. Jansen, 1906 to 1908. 
Rev. Gustaf A. Quarnstrom, 1908. 

CHRIST CHURCH — EPISCOPAL. ^ 

Borough of Greenwich. 
Started as a Mission in 1705. Organized as a Parish in 1833. 

Undoubtedly more credit is due to Colonel Caleb Heath- 
coate of Mamaroneck, Surveyor-General of His Majesty's 
Customs for the Eastern District of North America, Judge 
of the Court of Admiralty for the Provinces of New York 
and New Jersey, and the Colony of Connecticut, one of His 
Majesty's Council for the Province of New York, and brother 
of Sir Gilbert Heathcoate of London, than to any one else, 
for having founded the Church of England in this vicinity. 

'Huntington's History of Stamford, published in 1868; Baird's History of 
Rye, published in 1871. 



Churches — Episcopal 415 

At his instance the Society for Propagating the Gospel in 
Foreign Parts of England, formed in 1701, sent one of its 
first missionaries, the Rev. Thomas Pritchard, to officiate in 
the Parish of Rye. He arrived at New York in April, 1704, 
and entered upon his duties in May. He soon, however, 
proved unsuitable and remained but a few months. 

His successor, the Rev. George Muirson, a native of 
Scotland, may be regarded as the first missionary in the 
Town of Greenwich. He came to America, as a school- 
teacher, under the auspices of the Society for Propagating 
the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and his work was so efficient 
that he was soon sent back to England as a candidate for 
orders, where he was ordained by the Bishop of London. He 
returned to Rye in the summer of 1705, and on the thirty- 
first day of July, 1705, Governor Combury signed a mandate 
for his induction as rector of the Parish of Rye, Mamaroneck, 
and Bedford. During his short ministry he conducted ser- 
vices at Greenwich and Stamford. His death occurred on 
the twelfth day of October, 1708. 

The Rev. George Muirson was succeeded by the Rev. 
Mr. Reynolds in October, 1709, who officiated but a few 
times, when he was removed. 

The Rev. Christopher Bridge, formerly assistant at 
King's Chapel, Boston, and afterwards at Narragansett, 
succeeded the Rev. Mr. Reynolds. He came to Rye as 
rector in January, 1710, and died on the twenty-second day 
of May, 1 719. 

The Rev. Robert Jenney, chaplain of the royal forces in 
New York, succeeded the Rev. Mr. Bridge, and was inducted 
as rector of the Parish of Rye on the seventh day of June, 
1722. He remained until 1726, when he removed to Hemp- 
stead. 

The Rev. James Wetmore succeeded the Rev. Mr. 
Jenney. He was a native of Middletown, Connecticut, 
graduated from Yale College in 1714; ordained as a Congre- 
gational minister in November, 1718, and settled as pastor 
of the First Congregational Church at North Haven. Within 



4i6 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

four years, he relinquished his charge and soon after went to 
England, where he was ordained as a clergyman of the Estab- 
lished Church. He returned to America and on the seventh 
daj^ of June, 1725, was called to Rye, and his induction as 
rector of the Parish of Rye took place soon after. He con- 
tinued the services maintained by his predecessors, preaching 
at Rye, North Castle, White Plains, Bedford, Greenwich, 
and Stamford. He remained in charge of the Parish of Rye 
until his decease on the fifteenth day of May, 1760, over 
thirty-three years. 

From the first settlement of the Colony of Connecticut, 
and for many years thereafter, the Congregational Church 
was considered, as it were, the State Church, and every free- 
man was compelled by law to contribute to its support, unless 
exempted by some legislative act. In 1738, during the 
ministry of the Rev. Mr. Wetmore, and under his auspices, 
the Episcopalians in the Towns of Greenwich and Stamford, 
where he regularly held services once a month, sent a memo- 
rial to the General Assembly, together with other Episco- 
palians in the Colony of Connecticut, praying that the 
members of the Church of England in the Colony of Con- 
necticut might be excused from paying for the support of the 
Congregational Church, which was denied. The petition 
of the Stamford and Greenwich churchmen was signed by the 
following : 

Arnold, Robert, Johnson, Thomas, 

Austin, Jonathan, Jones, Henry, 

Avery, John, King, William, 

BalHs, Thomas, Kirkham, John, 

Barton, Joseph, Knapp, Benjamin, 

Burley, John, Knapp, Caleb, 

Charlton, Richard, Knapp, Israel, 

Day, Benjamin, Knapp, James, 

DeMill, Peter, Knapp, Joseph, 

Finch, John, Lockwood, Gershom, 

Hibbard, Nathaniel, Lockwood, Hezekiah, 

Hicks, John, Lockwood, John, 

Johnson, John, Lockwood, Jonathan, 



Churches — Episcopal 417 

Lockwood, Nathaniel, Riggs, Mills, 

Matthews, John, Roberts, Thomas, 

Mills, Samuel, Rundle, Abraham, 

Morine, Samuel, Sutherland, Charles, 

Nichols, Abraham, Wilson, James, 

Peck, Jeremy, Worden, Nathaniel, 

Quintard, Isaac, Worden, Nathaniel, Jr., 

Reynolds, David, Young, Benjamin, 

, John. 



From 1744 until the time of the settlement of the Rev. 
Ebenezer Dibble at Stamford, the Rev. Mr. Wetmore seems 
to have been assisted in his mission work in Greenwich and 
Stamford by the Rev. Henry Caner of Fairfield. 

Saint John's Parish of Stamford must have been organ- 
ized in 1742, because on the twelfth day of December, 1742, 
the Town of Stamford granted to the Professors of the 
Church of England a piece of land to set a church upon. 

The church edifice in the Town of Greenwich was so 
far completed in March, 1747, that it could be used. The 
deed to the property from Israel Knapp was recorded 
on ^the twenty-seventh day of December, 1748. The 
mission at Greenwich from that time on until its organi- 
zation into a parish, in 1833, became a part of Saint John's 
Parish. 

The Rev. Mr. Wetmore was succeeded by the Rev. 
Ebenezer Dibble. He graduated from Yale College in 1734; 
was licensed to preach as a Congregational minister, and was 
called in 1741 by the Congregational Church at Stamford to 
become its pastor. The next heard of him he was seeking 
orders in the Episcopal Church, and was an assistant to the 
Rev. Henry Caner. On the twenty-seventh day of December, 

1747, he received leave to go to England for orders, where he 
was ordained by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He returned 
to Stamford, and entered upon his duties as missionary in 
charge of Saint John's Parish on the sixteenth day of October, 

1748, and continued as such until his death in 1799, over 
fifty years, during which time he conducted services regularly 



41 8 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

once a month in the chapel at Horseneck, now Borough of 
Greenwich. 

In 1749, the Rev. Ebenezer Dibble in his report to the 
Venerable Secretary of the Society for Propagating the 
Gospel in Foreign Parts, stated that a chapel, thirty-six feet 
in length by twenty-five feet in breadth, had been built at 
Horseneck and was glazed. This chapel stood on the brow 
of Put's Hill and was blown down during the great gale 
which occurred on the third day of September, 1821. 

The foundation for a new chapel was soon after com- 
menced on the southerly side of Putnam Avenue, near the 
site of the present church edifice. The building was raised 
on the fourth day of July, 1832, and the completed structure 
consecrated on the fourth day of May, 1834. 

A meeting of the Episcopalians in the Town of Green- 
wich, to be held on the twenty-fifth day of December, 1833, 
was regularly called, upon the application of : 

Bush, Justus L., Davis, Silas, Husted, William, 

Bush, Nelson, Finch, Jared, Knapp, Albert, 

Mead, Drake. 

At which meeting a parish was regularly organized, and it 
was then decided to call the church, Christ Church. It is a 
voluntary association of individuals formed for public wor- 
ship. 

About 1855, it was found that the needs of the parish 
required a larger church edifice, and thereupon a new building 
was erected on the same site, and consecrated on the seven- 
teenth day of January, 1857, which was torn down during 
the summer of 1910. 

The comer-stone of the present church edifice was laid on 
the first day of May, 1909, and the completed structure 
consecrated on the fourth day of June, 1910. 

Ministers. 

Rev. George Muirson, 1705 to 1708. 
Rev. Mr. Reynolds, 1709. 



Churches — Episcopal 419 

Rev. Christopher Bridge, i/ioto 1719. 

Rev. Robert Jenney, 1722 to 1726. 

Rev. James Wetmore, 1726 to 1747. 

Rev. Ebenezer Dibble, 1748 to 1799. 

Rev. Calvin White, 1798. 

Rev. J. H. Reynolds, Rev. S. Wheaton, and Rev. Amzi 

Rogers, officiated for a number of years. 
Rev. Jonathan Judd, Oct. 10, 1810, to 1822. 
Rev. Bennett Glover, 1822 to 1823. 
Rev. Ambrose S. Todd, June 30, 1823, to Nov., 1833. 
Rev. Robert Davies, Nov., 1833, to July, 1834. 
Rev. Joseph H. Nichols, Sept. 14, 1834, to Feb., 1839. 
Rev. Benjamin M. Yarrington entered upon his work April 

5, 1839; elected rector April 20, 1840; resigned April 28, 

1895; ^^^ was elected rector emeritus on July 16, 1895. 

Entered into rest March 19, 1898. 
Rev. M. George Thompson entered upon his duties July 7, 

1895. Present rector. 

CALVARY CHURCH. 

Round Hill. 
Organized, June 25, 1859. 

Calvary Church at Round Hill was organized on the 
twenty-fifth day of June, 1859, as follows: 

The following named persons, all citizens of Greenwich 
and residing in the vicinity of Round Hill, have associated 
and formed themselves into a religious society agreeably to 
the statute laws of the State of Connecticut, and the constitu- 
tion and canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
Diocese of Connecticut, under and by the name of "Calvary 
Church, (Round Hill), Greenwich." 

Ferris, Nathaniel, Knapp, Benjamin, Jr., 

Finch, Silas, Merrit, Caleb W., 

Haight, Thomas A., Minor, Zalmon, 

Holly, Francis M., Peck, Isaac, 

Holly, Pierre R., Piatt, WilHam J., 

Husted, Benjamin F., Purdy, Calvin, 

Husted, James, Purdy, John, Jr., 

Husted, John A., Purdy, WilHam, 

Husted, Jonathan, Raymond, Henry, 

Husted, Joseph W., Sniffen, Daniel, 

White, Bartow F. 



420 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

The church edifice was erected during the summer of 
i860, chiefly through the personal efforts of Dr. Bartow F. 
White, and the first service held in it on the twenty-sixth day 
of August, i860, was conducted by the Rev. Isaac Peck. It 
was consecrated on the twenty-ninth day of October, i860, 
by the Right Rev. John Williams, D.D., Bishop of the 
Diocese of Connecticut. On Easter Sunday, 1 865, Emmanuel 
Chapel at Glenville was transferred to its charge. 

Rectors. 

Rev. Isaac Peck, Sept. 24, i860, to Feb. 26, 1865. 

Rev. William Bient, in charge from 1st Sunday after 

Trinity, 1865, to Jan. 15, 1866. 
Rev. R. H. Barnes, 1867, to May 14, 1871. 
Rev. C. W. Bolton, Oct. 11, 1874, to 1880. 
Rev. Benjamin M. Yarrington, Dec. 28, 1880, to April 26, 

1887. 
Rev. Mr. Pierce and Rev. G. T, Linsley, in charge, April i, 

1888, to 1890. 
Rev. William I. Magill, Feb. i, 1890. Present rector. 

SAINT Paul's church. 

Riverside. 

Organized, 1876. 

Saint Paul's Church at Riverside was originally started 
as a Sunday School on the twenty-fourth day of October, 
1875. The first Sunday School services were held at the 
residence of Mrs. Stephen P. Selleck and conducted by 
Jennie McComb and Margaret Topham, and attended by 
five teachers and fifteen pupils. The school was found to be 
too large to be comfortably accommodated at Mrs.-Selleck's, 
and the Mianus District Schoolhouse was obtained for the 
following Sunday in which the Sunday School services were 
continually held until the chapel was ready for occupancy. 
The undertaking was supported by Luke A. Lockwood and 
other prominent residents of Riverside. Mr. Lockwood 
became superintendent of the Sunday School and under his 



Churches — Episcopal 421 

influence and guidance the school rapidly increased in num- 
bers. A weekly church evening service was established, and 
the growth of the work was so encouraging that it was 
decided to raise funds to erect a Sunday School Chapel. 
It was through the efforts and personal influence of Mr. 
Lockwood that the society was organized in March, 1876, 
by the name of "Saint Paul's Episcopal Society." The 
first meeting of this society was held on the twentieth day of 
March, 1876, which resulted in the election of the following 
wardens and vestrymen: Luke A. Lockwood, Senior War- 
den; Dr. Edward H. Brinley, Junior Warden and Treas- 
urer; Vestrymen: Frederick M. Lockwood, Clerk, John R. 
McComb, Augustus R. Newman, Benjamin Page, Benjamin 
P. Smith. 

Jeremiah W. Atwater supported the undertaking to the 
extent of donating to the society on the eighth day of May, 
1876, over half an acre of land, upon which the present 
church edifice stands. The plans for the chapel were donated 
by H. Hudson Holly, who also personally supervised the 
construction of the building without compensation. The 
foundation for the chapel was commenced on the seventh 
day of August, 1876, and the comer-stone was laid on the 
ninth day of September, 1876, at which the address was deliv- 
ered by Luke A. Lockwood. The visible result of eleven 
months' work was a Sunday School with one hundred and 
seventy- three pupils and twenty-three teachers. The chapel 
was ready for occupancy on the eighth day of December, 
1876, and the first services were conducted by Luke A. Lock- 
wood, as lay reader. He continued to conduct the services 
regiilarly until the tenth day of July, 1886, when the Rev. 
Charles Wright Freeland, curate at Saint Andrew's Church, 
Stamford, took charge of the work at the chapel. 

On the second day of July, 1892, the Right Rev. John 
Williams, D.D., Bishop of Connecticut, made his second 
episcopal visit to the chapel, administered the rite of con- 
firmation, and consecrated the chapel. In 1894, by the 
unsolicited action of the wardens and vestrymen of Christ 



422 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Church, Borough of Greenwich, Saint Paul's Episcopal Soci- 
ety became an independent parish. 

A. R. Whitney donated the land on which the rectory 
was built in 1901. 

Ministers in Charge. 

Rev. Charles Wright Freeland, July 10, 1886, to July i, 1889. 

Rev. Christopher W. Knaufif, 1889 to 1890. 

Rev. Alden Welling, April 5, 1890, to Dec. i, 1891. 

Various clergymen in charge, 1892 to 1893. 

Rev. Peter McFarland, 1893 to 1894. 

Rev. Frederick R. Sanford, first rector, 1894 to 1898. 

Rev. Herbert M. Smith, in charge, Oct. 15, 1898, to Dec. 31, 

1898. 
Rev, Charles W. Boylston, Jan. i, 1899. Present rector. 

EMMANUEL CHAPEL. 

Glenville. 

Emmanuel Chapel was erected in 1842 through the liber- 
ality of Samuel G. Cornell, and consecrated on the twenty- 
second day of April, 1842. It was originally under the 
charge of the rector of Christ Church, Borough of Greenwich, 
but on Easter Sunday, 1865, it was placed under the care of 
Calvary Church, Round Hill, Owing to a change in the 
inhabitants at Glenville, the services were discontinued and 
the property sold in 19 10. 

SAINT John's chapel, 
formerly the 

ABBOT CHAPEL. 

Byram. 

This chapel is located on the northerly side of the Post 
Road near the top of Byram Hill, and was originally started 
by B. F. Ashley of Port Chester as a Sunday School in the 
Byram District Schoolhouse in the fall of 1869. Frank 
Abbot of Harrison became interested in the work, and it was 



Churches — Baptist 423 

through his personal influence and financial aid that the 
present chapel was erected in which the first service was held 
on the seventh day of January, 1870. Monthly services 
were held by the Rev. Mr. Yarrington of Christ Church, 
Borough of Greenwich. Mr. Ashley was succeeded in the 
work by William Whitney. In 1889 the late Archdeacon 
Tatlock took charge of the property, in trust, for the Diocese 
of Connecticut, In 1890 the chapel became part of the 
Round Hill Parish, and has ever since been in charge of the 
present missionary. 

ROSEMARY CHAPEL. 

Borough of Greenwich. 

The funds for Rosemary Chapel were all raised by the 
pupils of Rosemary Hall, which is a school for young ladies, 
and of which the chapel is a part. It is said to be the only 
pure Middle English Gothic structure in this country and 
was under construction some three years. It was conse- 
crated on the eighteenth day of October, 1909, by the Right 
Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church for the Diocese of Connecticut. 

KING STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. ' 

Organized, Nov. 3, 1773. Incorporated in 1842. 
Glenville. 

The first item of information respecting the Baptists in 
this vicinity is a statement made in 1769, by Ebenezer Ferris. 
He and his wife, Abigail, had united with the Congregational 
Church at Stamford on the twelfth day of February, 1769, 
and by the twenty-seventh day of October, of the same year, 
he had become so far convinced of the invalidity of his bap- 
tism as to seek immersion at the hands of Elder Gano of New 
York City. His own statement of the change is as follows : 

Having been sometime exercised in mind, in disputes 
upon religious subjects, searching the scriptures for under- 

' Htintington's History of Stamford, published in 1868. 



424 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

standing, and becoming convinced that the Baptists, in their 
practice, are agreeable to the order of the gospel, I made 
application to the Baptist Church in New York, under the 
pastoral care of Elder Gano, Desiring to unite with them 
in the privilege of the gospel, after having been examined, 
they manifested their freedom. Was baptized Oct. 2'], 1769, 
and received into church fellowship. 

In April, 1770, Elder Gano preached in Stamford and 
baptized Nathan Scofield of Stamford and John Ferris of 
Stanwich. In June, 1770, he baptized Nehemiah Brown and 
David Wilson of Horseneck, and Moses Reynolds of Stanwich. 

In 1 771, the following persons were baptized: Oliver 
Sherwood of Horseneck, James Winchel, Elizabeth Davis, 
Hannah Ferris, Rebecca Reynolds of Stanwich, Elizabeth 
Rowel of Horseneck, Mindal Smith of Bedford, William 
Brundage and Nathan Sutton of Horseneck. 

On the third day of November, 1773, those Baptists who 
were living in the Horseneck Society organized a separate 
church, located at Glenville. It was supplied for a period of 
about eleven years by ministers from Tarry town, Danbury, 
Stamford, Long Island, and New York City. After that the 
Rev. Nathaniel Finch was settled as pastor and continued as 
such until June, 1824. He died on the twenty-ninth day 
of August, 1829, in his 85th year. 

At the session of the General Assembly held in 1842, it 
was: 

_ Resolved, that the society of Baptists, consisting of 
William Newman, James Green, Samuel Brundage, James 
Wilson, and others, located in the Town of Greenwich, and 
having their place of worship in or near King Street, and 
those now acting with them as members of said society, 
and those by said society now recognized as members 
thereof, be and they are hereby declared to be a religious 
society, legally established for the worship of God, with 
power to hold real and personal property, etc. 

Services were discontinued in 1886, and the church edifice, 
which was erected in 1774, and used as a hospital during the 



Churches — Baptist 425 

Revolutionary War, was destroyed by fire on the twenty- 
fifth day of October, 1899. 

Pastors. 

Rev. Nathaniel Finch, 1785 to June, 1824. 

Rev. David Peck, assisted Rev. Mr. Finch, during the latter 

years of his pastorate. 
Rev. Jacob H. Brouner, June, 1824, to Aug., 1826. 
Rev. Ebenezer S. Raymond, Dec. 30, 1826, to 1864. 
Rev. O. C. Kirkham, May 4, 1867, to 1870. 
Rev. Jonathan Bastow, July i, 1873, to 1875. 
Rev. A. F. Perry, in charge, 1878 to 1880. 

There was no settled pastor after the Rev. Mr. Bastow 
left. 

BANKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH. 

Organized, August 8, 1853. 

The Banksville Baptist Church is a voluntary association 
of individuals formed for public worship, and was organized 
on the eighth day of August, 1853, by several members from 
the church at Bedford together with one or two members 
from other churches. It is located on the westerly side of 
North Street near the state line. The first service was held 
in the basement of the present church edifice, which was 
afterwards completed and dedicated. The church records 
have been exceptionally well kept and are in an excellent 
state of preservation. 

Original Members. 

Banks, Abigail, Banks, Mary, 

Banks, Ann Maria, Banks, Rachel, 

Banks, Benjamin F., Barrett, EHza, 

Banks, Emily, Barrett, Henry, 

Banks, EzraF., Ferris, James L., 

Banks, Frances E., Ferris, Jennet, 

Banks, John, Hobby, Deborah A., 

Banks, Jonathan, Hobby, George, 

Banks, Keziah, Hobby, Mary, 



426 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Knowlton, Farnham, Thatcher, Clarissa J., 

Knowlton, George, Thatcher, George, 

Knowlton, Sarah E., Tillotson, Adelia J., 

Mead, Hannah, Tillotson, Gilbert H., 

Miller, Amanda, Tillotson, Harrison, 

Studwell, Mary, Tillotson, Nancy M., 
Youngs, Daniel. 

Pastors. 



Rev. Henry F. Smith, called Nov., 1853, resigned Aug. 22, 

1858. 
Rev. Uriah B. Guiscard, called Oct., 1858, resigned Feb. 5, 

1861. 
Rev. A. Judson Allen, called April 4, 1863, resigned Dec. 31, 

1865. 
Rev. I. S. Gifford, called Jan., 1866, resigned Sept. 10, 1871. 
Rev. Warren Lincoln, called Dec. 17, 1871, resigned May, 

1874. 
Rev. Harvey B. Alley, called June 23, 1874, resigned Oct. 30, 

1904. 
Rev. Francis Purvis, called Oct. 30, 1904, resigned April i, 

1908. 
Rev. Samuel D. Ringrose, called Aug. 16, 1908, resigned 

Jan., 1910. 
Rev. James A. Deojay, called Oct., 19 10. 

KING STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ' 

Organized, 1787. 
Glenville. 

The Methodists began to hold services in Glenville as 
early as 1787, at which time the Rev. Samuel Q. Talbot 
was appointed preacher on the New Rochelle Circuit, He 
preached in this vicinity and organized a church. The ser- 
vices were at first held in private houses, and later, when the 
membership had increased in numbers, the King Street Dis- 
trict Schoolhouse was used. He was succeeded, in 1788, 

^'R\intingion\ History of Stamford, ^nhVi&hed in 1868; 'Bsiird's, History of 
Rye, ptiblished in 1871. 



Churches — Methodist 427 

by the Rev. Peter Moriarity and the Rev. Albert Van 
Nostram. The next year the celebrated Rev. Jesse Lee 
and Rev. Andrew Van Nostram were the preachers. 

In 1790, a regular circuit was formed embracing all of 
Fairfield County and part of Westchester County, and the 
Rev. John Bloodgood was the preacher. In 1803, this 
large circuit was divided, and set off to New Rochelle and 
Redding, so that the southeastern portion of Westchester 
County formed the New Rochelle Circuit, and included the 
church organization on King Street. In 1832, the circuit 
was again divided, so as to embrace in the New Rochelle 
Circuit, New Rochelle, East Chester, Mamaroneck, Rye, 
Port Chester and King Street. In 1845, the circuit was 
again divided by making Port Chester and King Street a 
separate circuit, and it remained so until 1857, when the 
King Street Methodist Episcopal Church became a separate 
charge. 

In 1822, the erection of a church edifice was discussed for 
the first time. In 1829, Desire W. Haight, wife of Daniel 
Haight, donated to the society, which had recently been 
organized, the ground upon which the church edifice now 
stands, and the erection of the building commenced, which 
was completed and dedicated in 1831. 

The comer- stone of the present church edifice was laid on 
the fourth day of October, 1892, and the completed structure 
dedicated on the twenty-third day of July, 1893. 

In 1907, this church and the one at Round Hill were 
formed into a circuit. 

Owing to the loss of the church records prior to 1869, the 
list of ministers in charge from the organization of the church 
until that date, can be given only approximately. 

Ministers in Charge. 

Rev. Samuel Q. Talbot, 1787. 

Rev. Peter Moriarity and Rev. Albert Van Nostram, 1788. 
Rev. Jesse Lee and Rev. Andrew Van Nostram, 1789. 
Rev. John Bloodgood, 1790. 



428 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Rev. W. Thatcher and Rev. Aaron Hunt, 1803. 

Rev. J. Coleman and Rev. J. Sawyer, 1805. 

Rev. H. Redstone and Rev. Joseph Crawford, 1806. 

Revs. Billy Hubbard, M. B. Buel, Zalmon Lyon, Ezekiel 
Canfield, Luman Andrus, P. Peck, N. W. Thomas, H. 
Eames, E. Smith, J. Lyon, S. Arnold, N. Emery, Coles 
Carpenter, D. Ostrander, M. Richardson, and S. Bush- 
nell, from 1807 to 1821. 

Revs. Elijah Woolsey, W. Jewett, R. Seney, R. Seaman, S. 
Martindale, Luman Andrus, Phineas Rice, P. P. San- 
ford, J. Bowen, S. Cochran, E. Hibbard, D. DeVinnie, 
E. Washburn, and J. Ferris, from 1821 to 1832. 

Revs. B. Sellick, H. Husted, D. Ostrander, P. L. Hoyt, B. 
Daniels, P. R. Brown, T. Sparks, E. Osbom, P. Cham- 
berlain, C. Ochampaugh, C. F. Pelton, Samuel U. 
Fisher, F. W. Lefevre, E. Andrews, and W. Gothard, 
from 1833 to 1845. 

Rev. H. F. Pease, 1845 to 1847. 

Rev. W. B. Hoyt, 1847 to 1849. 

Rev. J. A. Edmonds, 1849 to 1851. 

Rev. Justus O. North, 1851 to 1853. 

Rev. William F. Smith, 1853 to 1855. 

Rev. Cotant, 1855 to 1857. 

Rev. William Porteus, 1857 to 1859. 



Rev. Joseph Vinton, 1869 to 1871. 
Rev. J. A. Edmonds, 1871 to 1874. 
Rev. J. Winthrop Rawlinson, 1874. 
Rev. Marcus D. Buel, 1875 to 1878. 
Rev. J. C. Bamhart, 1878 to 1879. 
Rev. J. B. Sheppard, 1879 to 1881. 
Rev. Daniel Jones, 1881 to 1884. 
Rev. James Robinson, 1884 to 1887. 
Rev. J. T. Langlois, 1887 to 189 1. 
Rev. William E. Jeffries, 1891 to 1896. 
Rev. B. T. Abbott, 1896 to 1902. 
Rev. E. T. Lounsbury, 1902 to 1905. 
Rev. B. C. Miller, 1905 to 1906. 
Rev. A. L. Faust, 1906 to 1910. 
Rev. J. A. Parks, 1910 to 191 1. 
Rev. C. S. Pitman, 191 1. 



Churches — Methodist 429 

ROUND HILL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ' 

Organized, 1826. 

Methodism made its first appearance at Round Hill early 
in 1800, through the instrumentality of Nathaniel Husted 
and Benjamin Lockwood. The first known place for holding 
meetings was at the house of Nathaniel Husted, north of the 
present church, and the services were conducted by a Metho- 
dist preacher by the name of the Rev. Thomas Drummond, 
and afterwards meetings were held at different places in the 
vicinity of the church, and also in the schoolhouse. No 
regular church organization, however, was effected until 
1826, when plans were made for the building of a church, 
which was completed and dedicated on Thanksgiving Day, 
1828, by Rev. Noah Levings, D.D., of the New York Con- 
ference. 

The ground on which the first church edifice stood was 
deeded to the society by two brothers, Benjamin Husted 
and Jonathan Husted, and was situated on the southwest 
comer of the road, about opposite the present structure. 
The comer-stone of the present edifice was laid on the 
twenty- second day of November, 1871, the ground hav- 
ing been purchased from William S. Brown, and the old 
building was soon afterwards moved to the new founda- 
tion, a lobby and steeple added, and the structure repaired. 
The church was rededicated on the thirty-first day of July, 

1873. 

It is a voluntary association of individuals formed for 
public worship under the name of the Round Hill Methodist 
Episcopal Church. The society has been abolished and 
trustees now hold the title to its property. 

In 1907, the church was "circuited " with the King Street 
Methodist Episcopal Church. There are no records prior to 
1858. 

^Semi-Centennial of the Round Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, by 
Nathaniel C. Husted, M.D., published in 1879; Huntington's History of 
Stamford, published in 1868. 



430 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Ministers in Charge from 1810 to iQoy. 



Rev. Billy Hubbard. 

Rev. Ezekiel Canfield, 18 12. 

Rev. Zalmon Lyon. 

Rev. Thomas Dnimmond, 1813. 

Rev. Benjamin Griffin, 18 13. 

Rev. Phineas Rice, 18 14. 

Rev. Coles Carpenter, 1815. 

Rev. Theodocius Clark, 1815- 

16. 
Rev. Aaron Hunt, 18 16. 
Rev. John Reynolds, 181 7-1 8. 
Rev. John M. Smith, 1819. 
Rev. Samuel D. Ferguson, 

1819. 
Rev. Elisha P. Jacobs, 1820. 
Rev. John M. Smith, 1820. 
Rev. John B. Matthias, 1821. 
Rev. Eli Dennison, 1822. 
Rev. Jarvis Z. Nichols, 1823. 
Rev. Nathaniel Porter, 1824. 
Rev. Noble W. Thomas, 1824. 
Rev. Cyrus Eoss, 1825. 
Rev. Elijah Woolsey, 1826. 
Rev. Luman Andrus, 1826. 
Rev. Lorin Clark, 1827. 
Rev. Reuben Harris. 
Rev. Samuel U. Fisher, 1827. 
Rev. Daniel DeVinnie, 1828. 
Rev. Oliver V. Ammerman. 
Rev. Samuel Cochran, 1830. 
Rev. Daniel I. Wright, 1831. 
Rev. John Lovejoy, 1832. 
Rev. Elijah Hibbard, 1833. 
Rev. Abraham S. Francis, 1833. 
Rev. Charles Stearns, 1834. 
Rev. WilHam Bangs, 1837. 
Rev. Seymour Vandusen, 1837. 
Rev. Henry Hatfield, 1838. 
Rev. Alonzo F. Silleck. 
Rev. George L. Fuller. 
Rev. Nathan Rice. 
Rev. Robert Travis. 
Rev. Josiah L. Dickerson. 
Rev. Jesse Hunt, 1842. 
Rev. Rufus C. Putney, 1844. 
Rev. James H. Romer, 1846. 
Rev. Jacob C. Washburn, 1847. 



Rev. Charles F. Pelton. 
Rev. J. K. Still. 
Rev. Robert Codling. 
Rev. Charles Gorse, i< 
Rev. Jacob C. Washburn. 
Rev. John A. Selleck, 1850. 
Rev. Joseph Wildey, 1851. 
Rev. WilHam F. Smith. 
Rev. Benjamin Redford, 1853. 
Rev. William Ross, 1855-56. 
Rev. William Porteus, 1857. 
Rev. Seneca Howland, 1858-59 

and 1868. 
Rev. Julius B. Wilcox, i860. 
Rev. George H. Goodsill. 
Rev. Alexander McAllister, 

1863. 
Rev. Moses Lyon. 
Rev. John P. Haviland, 1868- 

71- 
Rev. Ephraim Watt, 1873. 
Rev. Frank M. Halleck, 1875. 
Rev. Thomas W. Bethel, 1876- 

77- 
Rev. WilHam McNickoll, 1877. 
Rev. M. N. Olmstead, 1878-79. 
Rev. Thomas J. Watt, 1880. 
Rev. William J. White, 1881- 

82. 
Rev. Frederick J. Shackleton, 

1883-84. 
Rev. George B. Wray, 1885. 
Rev. George Leavens, 1886-87. 
Rev. S. T. Jackson, 1888-89. 
Rev. Frederick Fisher, 1889. 
Rev. Isaac Marsland, 1890. 
Rev. Henry Roisay, 1891. 
Rev. Frank B. Westervelt, 

1892-94. 
Rev. John E. Zeiter, 1895-99. 
Rev. Gilbert O. Gilman, 1900. 
Rev. James W. Colona, 1901. 
Rev. E. Stevenson, 1902. 
Rev. Robert Hartley, 1903. 
Rev. Henry E. Wing, 1904. 
Rev. J. Horace Barnes, 1905. 
Rev. Benjamin Dahnes, 1906. 



Churches — Methodist 431 

"Circuited" with the King Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church in 1907, and one minister now attends to both 
parishes. 

FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ' 

Horseneck, now Borough of Greenwich. 
Organized, 18 12. 

As early as 1787, Methodism made its appearance in the 
Borough of Greenwich, at which time the Rev. Samuel Q. 
Talbot was appointed preacher on the New Rochelle Circuit, 
and preached all through this vicinity. He was succeeded, 
in 1788, by the Rev. Peter Moriarity and the Rev. Albert 
Van Nostram. The next year the celebrated Rev. Jesse 
Lee and Rev. Andrew Van Nostram were the preachers. 

In 1790, a regular circuit was formed embracing all of 
Fairfield County and part of Westchester County, and the 
Rev. John Bloodgood was the preacher. In 1803, this large 
circuit was divided, and set off to New Rochelle and Redding. 
Meetings for prayer and religious experience had been held in 
the Town of Greenwich at irregular intervals for some time 
prior to 1812, but during this year the first sermon that is be- 
lieved to have been preached by a Methodist minister in 
Horseneck was preached by the Rev. Ezekiel Canfield, in the 
house formerly occupied by Loretta Merritt, near the old toll- 
gate. It is quite evident that a church organization was 
effected at that time. It was not, however, until the year 
1843, that the church felt able to build a meeting-house, 
consequently, on the fourteenth day of November, 1843, at a 
meeting held in the Horseneck District Schoolhouse, the 
"Horseneck Methodist Episcopal Society" was organized by: 

Close, Jonathan A., Marshall, Gilbert, 

Gansey, Solomon S., Merritt, John A., 

Halsted, EHsha, Peck, Benjamin, Jr., 
Weed, John M. 

^Historical Sermon, by Rev. William F. Hatfield, published in 1870. 
Historical Sermon, by Rev. Benjamin M. Adams, published in The Greenwich 
Graphic, November 18, 1893. 



432 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

The society purchased the plot of land about where the 
parsonage now stands, and erected thereon the first Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church built in the Borough of Greenwich, 
which was dedicated in September, 1844. The comer-stone 
of the present church edifice was laid on the twelfth day of 
May, 1868, and the completed structure dedicated on the 
twelfth day of May, 1869. The first meeting-house has been 
moved to the easterly side of Church Street and is now used 
as a chapel. The society was abolished during the ministry 
of the Rev. William R. Webster, 1866, and a board of 
trustees substituted in its place. 

It is a voluntary association of individuals formed for 
public worship under the name of the First Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Greenwich, The earliest records pre- 
served by the church are those commenced in November, 

1857- 

Ministers in Charge. 

Rev. Ezekiel Canfield, 1812. Rev. Luman Andrus, 1826. 

Rev. Benjamin Griffin, 1813. Rev. Lorin Clark, 1827. 

Rev. Phineas Rice, 18 14. Rev. Samuel U. Fisher, 1827. 

Rev. Coles Carpenter, 1 8 1 5 . Rev. Daniel DeVinnie, 1 828-29. 

Rev. Theodocius Clark, 18 15- Rev. Samuel Cochran, 1830. 

16. Rev. Daniel I. Wright, 1831. 

Rev. Aaron Hunt, 1 816. Rev. John Lovejoy, 1832. 

Rev. John Reynolds, 18 17-18. Rev. Elijah Hibbard, 1833. 

Rev. John M. Smith, 1819. Rev. Abraham S. Francis, 1833. 

Rev. Samuel D.Ferguson, 18 19. Rev. Charles Stearns, 1834. 

Rev. Elisha P. Jacobs, 1820. Rev. William H. Bangs, 1837. 

Rev. John M. Smith, 1820. Rev. Seymour Vandusen, 1837. 

Rev. John B. Matthias, 1821. Rev. Henry Hatfield, 1838. 

Rev. Eli Dennison, 1822. Rev. Alonzo F. Silleck. 

Rev. Jarvis Z. Nichols, 1823. Rev. Nathan Rice. 

Rev. Nathaniel Porter, 1824. Rev. Robert Travis. 

Rev. Noble W. Thomas, 1824. Rev. Josiah L. Dickerson. 

Rev. Cyrus Foss, 1825. Rev. Jesse Hunt, 1842. 
Rev. Elijah Woolsey, 1826. 



Rev. Rufus C. Putney, in 1843 and 1844, was appointed to 
what was called the "Horseneck Circuit," embracing 
Horseneck, Cos Cob, Round Hill, and Stanwich. In 
1845 he was assisted by Rev. Robert Codling. 



Churches — Methodist 433 

Rev. James H. Romer, assisted by Rev. Benjamin Redford, 

1846. 
Rev. Jacob C. Washburn, assisted by Rev. Benjamin M. 

Adams, 1847. 
Rev. Charles Gorse and Rev. William F. Smith, 1848-49. 
Rev. William McKendree Bangs and Rev. J. A. Selleck, 1850. 
Rev. J. A. Selleck, 1851, and the charge included Horseneck 

and Cos Cob. 
Rev. George L. Fuller, 1852-53. 
Rev. Philip L. Hoyt, 1854. 
Rev. George Dunbar, 1855. 
Rev. Seneca Rowland, 1856-57. 
Rev. Edward Oldrin, 1858. 
Rev. George HoUis, 1859-60. 
Rev. George Stillman, 1861-62, 
Rev. Alexander McAllister, 1863, and Round Hill and Stan- 

wich were included in the circuit. 
Rev. Alexander McAllister, 1864, and the circuit was 

changed to Horseneck and Round Hill. 
Rev. Moses Lyon, 1865. 
Rev. William R. Webster, 1866, and Horseneck and Round 

Hill were separated. 
Rev. William F. Hatfield, 1867-70. 
Rev. Arza Hill, 1870-73. 
Rev. Charles C. Glover, 1873-75. 
Rev. J. W. Beach, 1875-76. 
Rev. Richard Rush, 1876-77. 
Rev. George Taylor, 1877-80. 
Rev. Charles P. Comer, 1880. 
Rev. Henry Asten, 1881-83. 
Rev. J. H. Lightboume, 1884-86. 
Rev. Arthur B. Sanford, 1887-89. 
Rev. Isaac E. Smith, 1890-92. 
Rev. Benjamin M. Adams, 1893-97. 
Rev. WilHam W. Gillies, 1 898-1 900. 
Rev. William E. Scofield, 1901-10. 
Rev. Martin O. Lepley, 1910. Present minister. 

STANWICH METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

Organized, 1830. Abandoned, 1876. 

The Methodists began to hold services in Stanwich as 
early as 1825, and as near as can be ascertained the Stanwich 

38 



434 Ve Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1830. The 
book containing the early records of this church has been 
lost, and only meagre details concerning its history can be 
obtained. The church edifice stood on the westerly side of 
the road a short distance south of the Stanwich Congrega- 
tional Church and about opposite the Stanwich Cemetery. 
The church never supported an independent minister, but 
was "circuited" with the church at Round Hill, Greenwich, 
or Mianus, and one minister attended to the spiritual needs 
of all the parishioners in the circuit. The last sermon was 
preached by the Rev. Frank M. Halleck in 1876. The 
property was recently sold to the Stanwich Congregational 
Church, and the building is now used as a hall. 

DIAMOND HILL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

Organized, 1857. 

It would appear, from the history of the progress of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in the Town of Greenwich, that 
the church at Mianus was organized as early as 1 844, because 
at that time the Methodists in this vicinity were included in 
the circuit called the "Horseneck Circuit," which included 
Horseneck, Cos Cob, Round Hill, Stanwich, and Mianus. 
The first meetings were probably held at different houses, 
and possibly in the schoolhouse. Later they were held in 
an old neglected structure on the northeast comer of the 
Post Road and the road to Steep Hollow, about opposite the 
present church edifice. It was not, however, until 1857 that 
the church was recognized as an independent charge. It is a 
voluntary association of individuals formed for public wor- 
ship, and is known as the Diamond Hill Methodist Episcopal 
Church. The comer-stone of the present church edifice was 
laid in 1867. 

In a report of the Rev. George H, Anderson, pastor, 1867- 
1868, to the Quarterly Conference for the year 1869, he says: 
"The new edifice is enclosed, the heavy work done, and the 
building gradually goes on to completion. The trustees 



Churches — Methodist 



435 



gave themselves three years to complete the work; two have 
already expired. At the end of the third they will probably 
be in their new church, and with debt enough to make them 
comfortable." In 1874 the debt stood thus: mortgage, 
$10,000, and a floating debt of I448. In July, 1878, 
the floating debt amounted to $1500. It was during this 
year, the second year of the pastorate of the Rev. George A. 
Graves, that an effort was made to lift this constantly 
increasing indebtedness. The task seemed quite hopeless, 
but through the efforts of the pastor and his most active 
co-laborer, John H. Ockershausen, treasurer of the board of 
trustees, the money was raised and the debt liquidated. 

Ministers in Charge. 



Rev. Rufus C. Putney, 1844-45 
Rev. WilHam F. Smith, 1849. 
Rev. George L. Fuller, 1852-53 
Rev. George Dunbar, 1855. 
Rev. Seneca Rowland, 1856-57 
Rev. Thomas D. Little wood 

1857- 
Rev. Seneca Rowland, 1858-59 
Rev. George Hollis, 1856-60. 
Rev. Seneca Rowland, 1861-63 
Rev. William W. McGuire 

1864-65. 
Rev. George H. Anderson, 1867 

-68. 
Rev. William H. Bangs, 1869. 
Rev. William D. Thompson, 

1870-72. 
Rev. James M. Carroll, 1873. 
Rev. Charles E. Miller, 1874. 



Rev. Charles W. Fordham, 

1875-76. 
Rev. George A. Graves, 1877- 

79- 
Rev. William W. Martin, 1880 

-83. 
Rev. Henry S. Still, 1884-85. 
Rev. Albert S. Hagarty, 1887- 

91. 
Rev. Rufus S. Putney, 1892-96. 
Rev. J. Wilbur Eggleston, 1897. 
Rev. William C. Wilson, 1898- 

99- 
Rev. William E. Jeffries, 1900- 

02. 
Rev. Nathan G. Cheney, 1903. 
Rev. E. Foster Piper, 1904- 

1911. 
Rev. Richard Hegarty, 191 1. 



NORTH COS COB METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH. 

Organized, 1830, 

Very little is known of the early history of the Methodist 
Protestant Church at North Cos Cob, except that it was 
organized in 1830, and was part of the Bedford Circuit. 
During the latter part of 1845, the members of the church 
felt the need of a permanent place of worship and organized 



43^ Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

a society for the purpose of building a church edifice, as 
follows : 

We the undersigned, desirous of providing for the public 
worship of God, according to the doctrine and usages of the 
Methodist Protestant Church at North Cos Cob in the Town 
of Greenwich, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut. 

For the accomplishment of our said object do hereby by 
mutual agreement associate ourselves together, as a religious 
society pursuant to the statute law of this state in such cases 
provided. And we do hereby unite and form a religious 
society, for the maintenance of the public worship of God, 
according to said doctrine and usage of the said Methodist 
Protestant Church at said North Cos Cob, by the name and 
style of the ' ' Horse Neck Society of the Methodist Protestant 
Church" by which name and style the said society is to be 
called and known, which said society we do hereby constitute 
to be subject to all the incidents and liabilities to which 
religious societies and congregations are by law subject, and 
to possess and enjoy all rights, powers and privileges given by 
law to religious societies and congregations. 

And we do hereby declare this meeting, at which all the 
undersigned are present, to be the first meeting of said 
society, the same being holden by us all on this twenty-sixth 
day of November, 1845, at said North Cos Cob. And we do 
hereby appoint William M. Sparkes, clerk of said Horse 
Neck Society to continue in office until another is chosen 
and sworn in his room. 

And we also appoint hereby David Johns, William Ferris, 
James Mead, Lockwood C. David and James Jarman the 
committee of said society to order the affairs of the society 
according to law. 

And we do fix on the third Wednesday of November of 
every year, at this house, as the time and place of holding the 
meetings of this society until the society shall otherwise direct. 

And we do direct that the clerk of this society shall cause 
the articles of this association to be recorded in the records 
of the society, and for the information of the public, and also 
in the town records of the Town of Greenwich. 

Witness our hands this twenty- sixth day of November, 
1845- 

R. Ballou, Chairman. 
Wm. M. Sparkes, Secretary. 



Churches — Presbyterian 437 

Ministers in Charge. 

Rev. Samuel Henderson, 1836. Rev. J. S. Serene, 1884. 

Rev. E. W. Griswold, 1840. Rev. Charles Raynor, 1886. 

Rev. Robert Woodruff, 1844. Rev. James Cody, 1887. 

Rev. Ransom Ballou, 1845. Rev. R. T. Tyson, 1891. 

Rev. William F. Harris, 1849. Rev. D. E. Day, 1893. 

Rev. Peleg Weaver, 1871. Rev. G. A. Ogg, 1898. 

Rev. J. H. Holden, 1873. Rev. F. A. Smith, 1900. 

Rev. W. Walton, 1877. Rev. J. H. Holden, 1903. 

Rev. J. H. Painter, 1878. Rev. George E. Davis, 1908. 

Rev. T. W. Minner, 1909. 

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. ' 

Borough of Greenwich. 
Organized, April 26, 1881. Incorporated, 1904. 

For a few years previous to the organization of the First 
Presbyterian Chiirch, the question of the advisability of 
organizing a Presbyterian Church in the Borough of Green- 
wich had frequently been considered. The matter, however, 
was somewhat hastened by the withdrawal of thirty-one 
members from the Second Congregational Church in 
the spring of 1881, who, together with two members 
from other churches, held the first informal services, 
which were conducted by the Rev. R. A. Sawyer, D.D., at 
Ray's Hall, on the seventeenth day of April, 1881. Applica- 
tion was made to the Presbytery of Westchester on the 
nineteenth day of April, 1881 , to be received as a Presbyterian 
Church, which was referred to the Church Extension Com- 
mittee with power to organize a church at Greenwich, if the 
way be clear. The committee met in Greenwich on the 
twenty-sixth day of April, 1881, and organized the First 
Presbyterian Church of Greenwich. The Ecclesiastical Soci- 
ety was organized on the twenty-second day of April, 1881, 
abolished in 1904, and the church incorporated on the twenty- 
eighth day of May, 1904. 

The problem of a location for a church edifice was con- 
sidered during the first year of its existence, and on the 

' Year Book, published in 1906. 



438 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

eleventh day of March, 1882, it was decided to purchase the 
site now occupied by the church on the northwest comer of 
Putnam Avenue and Lafayette Place, The construction of 
the church edifice was commenced in 1885, and it was dedi- 
cated on the twenty-fifth day of October, 1887. 

Pastors. 

Rev. R. A. Sawyer, D.D., acting pastor, April 17, 1881, 

to Sept., 1884. 
Rev. J. H. Hobbs, installed July 22, 1885, resigned July i, 

1889. 
Rev. J. T. Wills, installed Oct. 8, 1889, resigned June i, 1897. 
Rev. Robert L. Jackson, acting pastor, 1 897-1 900. 
Rev. Sanford H. Cobb, acting pastor, June 30, 1900, resigned 

May 19, 1901. 
Rev. William B. Waller, installed June 30, 1901, resigned 

July 15, 191 1. 

PILGRIM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SOUND BEACH, 

formerly the 

PILGRIM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF SOUND BEACH. 

Organized, 1894. Incorporated, 1894. 

The Pilgrim Congregational Church of Sound Beach was 
organized on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1894, by the 
withdrawal of thirty-nine members from the First Congre- 
gational Church of Sound Beach and two members from the 
church at Stamford, and incorporated on the twelfth day of 
July, 1894. The church edifice is located on the westerly 
side of the trolley line a short distance south of the Sound 
Beach railroad station. It was dedicated on the third day of 
July, 1895. 

On the fourteenth day of January, 1901, it was unani- 
mously decided to change the name to the ' ' Pilgrim Presby- 
terian Church of Sound Beach." 

Pastors. 

Rev. A. Lincoln Shear, June 24, 1894, to Dec, 1894. 
Rev. Matthew Patton, March, 1895, to Sept. 30, 1899. 



Churches — Lutheran 439 

Rev. E. R. Perry, Dec. 22, 1899, to 1903. 

Rev. Walter M. Grafton, March 17, 1903, to April 20, 1904. 

Rev. F. A. Hatch, April 4, 1905, to Oct., 1908. 

Rev. Warren L. Rogers, Oct., 1908, to Feb. 5, 191 1. 

GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SAINT PAUL's CHURCH. 

East Port Chester. 
Organized, 1865. Incorporated, 1872. 

The German EvangeHcal Lutheran Saint Paul's Church 
was organized during the year 1865 to supply a long-needed 
want of the German population of Port Chester and its 
vicinity. The first service was held in Diehl's Hall in Port 
Chester on the twenty-eighth day of December, 1865. Philip 
Rollhaus donated to the society a lot in East Port Chester on 
which to build a church edifice, and its construction was 
commenced forthwith and completed in 1867. It was 
remodelled in 1902. 

Upon the petition of Christian Lehn, Henry Pfeiffer, 
Philip Bender, and others, members of the German Evangel- 
ical Lutheran Saint Paul's Congregation of East Port 
Chester, the General Assembly at the May Session, 1872, 
resolved, that the members of said society, and all others 
who shall hereafter become members be, and they hereby 
are constituted and created a body politic and corporate, by 
the name of "The German Evangelical Lutheran Saint 
Paul's Congregation of East Port Chester, in Connecticut, " 
etc. 

Ministers. 

Rev. William H. Buttner, 1865, to Oct. 4, 1866. 

Rev. Herrmann J. Fischer, Oct. 22, 1866, to Sept., 1868. 

Rev. John Steiner, Feb. 14, 1869, to Feb. 14, 1870. 

Rev. R. Hoeck, Feb. 21, 1870, to April i, 1872. 

Rev. Bemhard Cunz, April, 1872, to April, 1875. 

Rev. Carl F. W. Rechenberg, May, 1875, to Dec, 1877. 

Rev. John A. Hoffman, April 8, 1878, to Oct., 1881. 

Rev. J. A. Schmidtkong, March 19, 1882, to Nov., 1888. 

Rev. Herman Berkemeyer, Nov., 1888, to Sept. 20, 1898. 



440 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Rev. Theodore Bauck, Oct. 2, 1898, to Aug., 1905. 
Rev. John Kopp, Oct. i, 1905. Present pastor (1910). 

SAINT Peter's danish evangelical Lutheran church. 

East Port Chester. 
Organized, 1870. Incorporated, 1900. 

The Saint Peter's Danish EvangeHcal Lutheran Church 
was organized in 1870. The first service was held in the 
German EvangeHcal Lutheran Saint Paul's Church, where 
they were continued tintil the dedication of the present 
church edifice. 

At a meeting held on the seventeenth day of February, 
1900, it was decided to incorporate the church, and the 
certificate of incorporation was filed in the office of the Sec- 
retary of the State of Connecticut on the twentieth day of 
February, 1900. 

The property on which the present church edifice stands 
was piu-chased from Milo Mead by the Danish Ladies' Society 
for $200, and the deed therefor was given direct to the 
corporation, which was recorded on the seventeenth day of 
July, 1900. The comer-stone was laid on the eighteenth day 
of November, 1900, and the completed structure dedicated 
on the seventeenth day of March, 1901. 

Ministers. 

Rev. R. Andersen, 1870 to 1894. 

Rev. A. V. Andersen, Sept., 1894. Present minister (1910). 

SLOVAK EVANGELICAL SAINT PAUL's LUTHERAN CHURCH. 

East Port Chester. 
Incorporated, 1904. 

The author has made several attempts to obtain informa- 
tion regarding this church, but has been unsuccessful. The 
deed to the first piece of land it purchased was from Milo 
Mead and was dated May 30, 1903. The certificate of its 
incorporation was filed in the office of the Secretary of the 



Churches 441 

State of Connecticut on the twenty-seventh day of August, 
1904. 

UNION SOCIETY, now known as the riversville chapel. 
Organized, 1867. 

The Union Society, Riversville, was organized in 1867, by 
the Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists in the vicin- 
ity, as a Sunday School, and also for church services. Its 
first members were Josiah Wilcox, David Peck, and Leander 
Bums. The deed to the property on which the chapel now 
stands was donated to the society by George E. Wilcox on 
the twenty-fourth day of June, 1867. The chapel was built 
in 1869, and the money raised by contributions, the several 
amounts being represented by shares, the total amount 
thereof being the entire cost of the building. Josiah Wilcox 
was the first Sunday School superintendent and acted con- 
tinuously as such until his decease on the thirteenth day of 
June, 1883, when he was succeeded by John Green. It was 
abandoned as a Simday School in 1895, and now church 
services are held in the chapel by the different denominations 
in the vicinity. 

SAINT MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 

Borough of Greenwich. 
Started as a Mission in 1854. Organized as a Parish in 1876. 

The first mass said in the Town of Greenwich was some- 
time during the year 1854, in a house on the westerly side of 
Greenwich Avenue, near the present truck house, under the 
auspices of Saint John's Parish of Stamford. In i860, a 
small church was built on the southerly side of William 
Street, between Church Street and Sherwood Place, in the 
Borough of Greenwich. The chiu-ch edifice was improved 
and enlarged in 1875, and the mission was organized as a 
parish in 1876, with the Rev. W. H. Rogers as its first pastor. 
He was succeeded by Rev. D. J. Cremin, who was succeeded 
by the Rev. Thomas Smith. 



442 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

In 1878, the parish had outgrown the church on William 
Street, and a tract of land on the westerly side of Greenwich 
Avenue was bought for church purposes. The building of a 
new and larger frame edifice was commenced, and the comer- 
stone laid on the ninth day of June, 1878. The completed 
structure was dedicated on the eighteenth day of May, 1879, 
and was destroyed by fire on the twenty-sixth day of May, 
1900. The corner-stone of the present edifice, which stands 
on the same site, was laid on the twenty-third day of Septem- 
ber, 1900, and the completed structure dedicated on the 
third day of September, 1905. 

The present pastor has been in charge since 1900. 

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART. 

East Port Chester. 
Started as a Mission in 1890, Organized as a Parish in 1900. 

The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of East 
Port Chester was started by the Rev. Thomas Smith, pastor 
of Saint Mary's Church, Borough of Greenwich, as a mission, 
in 1890, He bought a building site at East Port Chester 
and commenced the building of the present church edifice, 
the comer-stone of which was laid in 1 890. 

Mass was said in the basement until the church was com- 
pleted. The church was dedicated on the sixteenth day of 
June, 1 90 1. The mission was organized as a parish on the 
twenty-ninth day of January, 1900, and the Rev. Thomas J. 
Finn was its first pastor. He continued in charge until the 
eighteenth day of July, 1910, when he was transferred to 
Norwalk. He was succeeded by the Rev. Eugene L. Sulli- 
van. 

SAINT Paul's roman catholic church. 

Glenville. 

Started as a Mission in 1889. Organized as a Parish in 1910. 

Saint Paul's Roman Catholic Church of Glenville was 
started by the Rev. Thomas Smith, pastor of Saint Mary's 



Churches — Colored 443 

Church, Borough of Greenwich, as a mission in 1889, and 
mass was said in Broderick's Hall until the dedication of the 
present church edifice. On the death of Rev. Thomas Smith 
in January, 1900, the mission at East Port Chester was 
organized into a parish with Glenville as its mission, and the 
Rev. Thomas J. Finn was appointed the first pastor on the 
twenty-ninth day of January, 1900. In December, 1901, 
land for a church edifice at Glenville was purchased from the 
American Felt Company, the comer-stone laid on the first 
day of June, 1902, and the completed structure dedicated on 
the nineteenth day of October, 1902. The mission was 
organized as a parish in January, 19 10, and the Rev. John J. 
Burke was its first pastor. 

LITTLE BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

Borough of Greenwich. 
Organized, June 15, 1882. 

The Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Greenwich was organized on the fifteenth day of June, 1882, 
by the Rev. T. McCants Stuart, Pastor of the Bethel African 
Methodist Episcopal Church of the City of New York, at a 
meeting held in the hall over the Greenwich Savings Bank, 
then located on Putnam Avenue. The church services were 
held, later on, in the hall on the top floor of the LaForge 
Building on the easterly side of Greenwich Avenue, until the 
present church edifice on Lafayette Place was dedicated, 
which occurred on the twenty-ninth day of June, 1884. It 
is a voluntary association of individuals formed for public 
worship. 

Pastors. 

Rev. T. R. Jeda, 1 882-1 885. 
Rev. J. R. Frederick, 1886. 
Rev. R. J. M. Long, 1887. 
Rev. P. M. Laws, 1887. 
Rev. Amos Brown, 1887. 
Rev. W. N. Berry, 1889. 



444 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Rev. J. W. Leekins, June 14, 1890, to July 11, 1892. 

Rev. I. A. Grandy, July 11, 1892, to June 12, 1893. 

Rev. F. T. N. Webster, June 12, 1893, to May, 1894. 

Rev. William H. Sheilds, May 17, 1894, to June 12, 1898. 

Rev. I. D. Jacobs, June 12, 1898, to July 4, 1900. 

Rev. John H. Est, July 4, 1900, to July, 1902. 

Rev. Cain P. Cole, July, 1902, to July 5, 1906. 

Rev. Edward L. Bell, July 10, 1906, to Jiily 8, 1907. 

Rev. I. D. Jacobs, July, 1907. 

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GREENWICH (colorcd) . 

Borough of Greenwich. 
Organized, June, 1879. Incorporated, 1903. 

The records of the First Baptist Church of Greenwich 
are very meagre and it has been very difficult to ascertain 
anything definite and accurate regarding its organization, 
except that it was organized in June, 1879. The first service 
was held in a house on Lake Avenue near the Glenville Road, 
and later in a hall over a blacksmith shop on Lewis Street. 
On the ninth day of January, 1904, it purchased the building 
it now occupies on the westerly side of Northfield Street, 
which was remodelled and services held in it. The Rev. G. 
W. Deskins is the present pastor (1909). 

Hotels. 

The early hotels in the Town of Greenwich have been 
considered generally in the preceding pages of this volume. 
Of the hostelries that were in existence at the time travellers 
were conveyed through the town by means of stages, the 
only one remaining is the Newman Hotel at Mianus. The 
hotels of the present day, with but two or three exceptions, 
are conducted solely as summer resorts. 

Societies and Clubs. 

There are numerous secret societies and clubs in the Town 
of Greenwich, and among the number are to be found the 
following : 



Societies and Clubs 445 



Acacia Lodge, No. 85, A. F. &. A. M. 

Agassiz Association. 

Camp No. 3, P. O. S. A. 

Court General Putnam, No. no, F. of A. 

Court St. Francis, D. of I. 

Danish Society. 

Division No. i, A. O. H. 

Empire Lodge, I. O. O. F. 

Greenwich Academy Alumni. 

Greenwich Board of Trade. 

Greenwich Casino Association. 

Greenwich Comic Opera Club. 

Greenwich Country Club. 

Greenwich Dramatic Club. 

Greenwich Equal Franchise League. 

Greenwich Field Club. 

Greenwich Lodge, B. P. O. E. 

Greenwich Society for Animal Protection. 

Greenwich Tax Payers' Association. 

Greenwich Teachers' Association. 

Indian Harbor Yacht Club. 

Ladies Auxiliary, A. O. H. 

Lombard Post, G. A. R. 

Nutmeg Council, Royal Arcanum. 

Orinoco Council, Knights of Columbus. 

Paul Revere Council, O. U. A. M. 

Pine Company, U. R. K. of P. 

Pine Lodge, K. of P. 

Pine Temple, Pythian Sisters. 

Putnam Hill Chapter, D. A. R. 

Riverside Yacht Club. 

Schoolmasters' Club. 

Shakespeare Club. 

Sound Beach Golf and Country Club. 

Town Club of Greenwich. 

Travel Club. 

Tribe Mayn Mayano, I. O. R. M. 

United Workers. 



CHAPTER XV. 

ALPHABETIC LIST OF LANDOWNERS FROM THE FIRST INDIAN 
DEED, 1640, TO 1752. 

AcKERLY, Henry, 1656, submitted to the jurisdiction of 

the New Haven Colony. 
AcKERLY, Joseph, March i, 1721, bought land of John 

Marshall, Sr. 
AcKERLY, Joseph, Jr., Aug. 4, 1727, bill of sale from 

Joseph Ackerly. 
Adams, Abigail, June i, 1747, bought land of David 

Reynolds, Jr. 
Adams, John, Dec, 29, 171 5, granted a parcel of land 

from the town. 
Adams, Jonathan, April 3, 1747, bought land of John 

Adams. 
Adams, Nathaniel, April 12, 1750, bought land of 

Nathaniel Husted. 
Adams, Samuel, Sept. 17, 1745, bought land of John 

Adams. 
Addington, John, Feb. 10, 1748, bought land of Samuel 

Worden. 
Aget, George, April i, 1736, bought land of Jacob 

Wanser. 
Allen, Alexander, Feb. 22, 1735, bought land of Jona- 
than Brundage. 
Allyne, Mary, April 10, 1747, bought land of Richard 

Harcourt. 
Anderson, Isaac, mariner, of New York City, Sept. 17, 

171 1, bought land of Samuel Lyon lying along the east 

side of the Byram River. 
Anderson, James, Nov. 20, 1728, bought land of Joseph 

Green. 
Anderson, Jeremiah, June 7, 1728, bought land of 

Timothy Knapp. 

446 



Landowners 447 

Anderson, John. Feb. 28, 1730, he and Jeremiah Ander- 
son divided land. 

Anderson, Joseph, March 19, 1750, bought land of 
Justus Bush. 

Anderson, William, April 10, 171 7, bought land of 
Timothy Knapp. 

Atwood, Henry, March 12, 1707, bought land of Eleazer 
Slawson, near the Stamford line. 

Austin, John, 1656, submitted to the jurisdiction of the 
New Haven Colony. 

May 23, 1673, granted four acres of land at 
Clapboard Hill, or somewhere on the east side of the 
Mianus River, He died about 1683, and the following 
appears on the town records: "John Austin, Thomas 
Austin, Joseph Finch and Elizabeth, his wife, all of 
Greenwich, have received from our father-in-law, William 
Hubbard, our proportion of the estate of our deceased 
father, John Austin." 

Austin, Jonathan, April 14, 171 1, bought land of Joseph 
Ferris and others. 

Austin, Thomas, April 18, 1683, granted one and one 
half acres of land. 

Avery, Edward, of East Chester, N. Y., March 14, 1710, 
bought land at Horseneck (from James Reynolds). 

Banks, Abigail, March 19, 1710, receipt from Deliver- 
ance Brown. 

Banks, Daniel, Jan. 26, 1725, bought land of John 
Marshall. 

Banks, John, of Fairfield. Feb. 13, 1676, his grant of a tract 
of land lying along the Byram River was confirmed, 
and he was also granted Calves Island. 

Banks, Joseph, April 29, 1707, bought land of Angell 
Husted. 

March 30, 1747, Joseph Banks, son of Joseph Banks, 
bought land of Nathan Sniff en. 

Banks, Lydia, and others, Nov. 17, 1750, life lease from 
Obadiah Banks. 

Banks, Obadiah, Nov. 7, 1747, deeded a parcel of land 
by his father, Daniel Banks. 

Banks, Samuel, Aug. 25, 1715, bought land of Deliver- 
ance Brown, Jr., and wife. 

March 29, 1738, sold to Samuel Brown part of his 
father's, John Banks', estate. 



44^ Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Barbour, Phipps, Jan. 31, 1731, bought land of Nathan 

Reynolds. 
Barmore, Henry, Aug. 23, 1722, had distributed to him 

his wife's one third of his father Mead's right. 
Bassett, Michael, Sept. 28, 1730, bought land of Wil- 
liam Francis. 
Bates, Elizabeth, and others, Nov. 28, 1698, deed of 

gift from Gershom Lockwood, Sr. 
Baulden, Elizabeth, and others, Nov. 24, 1687, admin- 
istrator's deed from estate of William Ratleff. 
Baxter, John, June 19, 1733, bought land of Jabez 

Sherwood. 
Beardsley, Nathan, April 10, 1728, bought land of 

John Purdy. 
Beardsley, William, Dec. 7, 1729, sold land to John 

Rail. 
Beers, James, Feb. 2, 1721, bought land of John Darling. 
Bellamy, Matthias, Jan. 12, 1671, granted a home lot 

of two acres. 
Benedict, Abraham, March 5, 1734, sold to Justus Bush all 

his right, title, and interest in his father-in-law's, Timothy 

Knapp's, estate. 
Benedict, Thomas, March 13, 1734, bought of Nathaniel 

Finch and Nathaniel Lockwood their interest in their 

father's (in-law), Timothy Knapp's, estate. 
Bennett, Ebenezer, Dec. 9, 1734, bought land of Thomas 

Bennett and William Bennett. 
Bennett, Thomas, Dec. 9, 1734, sold land to his son, Ebenezer 

Bennett, and to his grandson, William Bennett. 
Betts, Silas, April 9, 1744, bought land of Gershom 

Lockwood (father-in-law). 
Bevalot, James, May 6, 1751, had laid out by the Town 

of Greenwich a parcel of land. 
Bishop, Benjamin, April 7, 1741, bought land of Josiah 

Reynolds. 
Blackjvian, James, Oct. 11, 1733, bought land of John 

Coe. 
Bolt, Richard, March 5, 1724, bought land of Nathan 

Whelpley. 
BosTwiCK, Ephraim, Rev., June 3, 1736, bought land of 

Abraham Rundle. 
BosTwiCK, Merryday, April 25, 1753, bought land of 

John Utter. 



Landowners 449 

Bowers, John, March 23, 1664, granted a parcel of land 

at Mianus Neck. 

March 16, 1666, granted a swamp so far as it adjoins 

his lot, 

Feb. 6, 1699, granted ten acres of land. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Bowers, Nathaniel, Dec, 30, 1700, granted a parcel of 

land. (Probably he was the minister.) 
Bowers, Nathaniel, Nov. 14, 1729, sold land to John 

Howe. 
Boyd, John, March 15, 1720, bought land of James 

Ferris, Jr. 
Boyd, Peter, Dec. 30, 1726, bought land of John Rey- 
nolds. 
Brown, Deliverance, April 29, 1724, bought land of 

Samuel Mills, Sr. 
Brown, Jonathan, Feb. 16, 1726, sold to Elnathan Mead all 

his right, title, and interest in his father-in-law's, Samuel 

Mead's, estate. 
Brown, Nehemiah, son of Peter Brown, Aug. 26, 1748, 

sold land to Henry Bush. 
Brown, Peter, May 22, 1712, sold to John Marshall all his 

right, title, and interest in his father's (in-law), Butler's, 

home lot. 
Brown, Samuel, Dec. 13, 1723, bought land of Jonathan 

Hobby. 

March 22, 1738, bought of Samuel Banks part of his 

father's, John Banks', estate. 
Brundage, Abraham, May 30, 1724, bought land of 

Joseph Lockwood, Sr. 
Brundage, Joseph, May 17, 1715, bought land of 

Richard Scofield and others. 
Brundage, Nathan, Aug. 7, 1728, bought land of John 

Lyon. 
Brush, Benjamin, Feb. 8, 1726, bought land of John 

Howe. 

1739, bought of the heirs of Joseph Knapp land on Tina- 

mon's Ridge. 
Brush, John, April 10, 1718, bought land of Joseph 

Knapp. 

Jan. 7, 1733, bought of Jonathan Holmes his right in 

land that was his father's, Stephen Holmes's. 
Brush, Joshua, April 14, 1742, bought land of John Brush. 



450 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Brush, Stephen, Feb. ii, 1730, bought land of Peter 

Ferris. 
BuDD, Joseph, and others, Dec. 22, 1724, deed from 

Mary Sherwood, widow, and others. 
BULLARD, Richard, Dec. 28, 1669, granted a parcel of 

land. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 

June 7, 1 67 1, sold lands to Joseph Ferris and Jonathan 

Lockwood. 
BuLLis, John, March 5, 1722, deed to a parcel of land 

from his father, Thomas Bullis. 
BuLLis, Thomas, about 1700, granted a parcel of land 

from the town. 

Feb. 20, 1705, grant from the town. 

1722 and 1734, sold land to his sons, John Bullis and 

Thomas Bullis. 
BuNCUME, Cornelius, and others, Oct. 17, 1707, adminis- 
trator's deed from the estate of John Hobby. 
BuRLEY, John, Dec. 3, 1725, bought of David Whelpley, all 

his right, title, and interest in his father's, Jonathan 

Whelpley's, estate ; and also the same interest of Nathan 

Whelpley a few years later. 
BuRLEY, Samuel, Sept., 1726, bought land of Benjamin 

Finch. 
BuRRELL, or Burwell, John, 1673, granted a parcel of 

land from the town. 
Bush, David, Dec, 1763, granted leave to build a grist- 
mill on Strickland Brook. 
Bush, Henry, June 20, 1744, bought land of Justus 

Reynolds. 
Bush, John, Dec. 11, 1751, bought land of Samuel Mills. 
Bush, Justus, of New York, Jan. 15, 1716, granted leave to 

build a grist-mill on Horseneck Brook below the Country 

Road. The same to be built in three years or the 

grant would revert to the town. 

April 14, 1738, bought of Peter Palmer one half of his 

interest in his father's, William Palmer's, estate. 
Butler, John, Dr., of Stratford, June 25, 1696, bought of 

Stephen Sherwood the mill at the Mianus River. 
Butler, Walter, May 23, 1673, granted six acres of land. 

Dec, 1673, granted an interest in the outlands lying 

between the Mianus and Byram Rivers. 

Feb. 6, 1699, grant to all his children of ten acres each. 



Landowners 451 

Buxton, Clement, Aug. 10, 1724, bought land of Caleb 

Knapp. 
Buxton, Noah, and others, Dec. 23, 1715, bought land of 

Edward Avery. 
Carhart, John, and others, June 24, 1732, bought land 

of Timothy Knapp. 
Carle, Jonathan, April 21, 1729, bought land of Samuel 

Com well. 
Caxton, Samuel, March 30, 1749, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 
Chambers, John, Feb. 6, 1750, bought land of the estate 

of John Rail. 
Chapman, widow, and others, March 22, 1729, received 

an allotment. 
Clapp, Benjamin, and others. May 20, 1723, bought land 

of Thomas Hobby. 
Clapp, Cornbery, Dec. 3, 1725, bought land of Joseph 

Mead. V 

Clapp, Elias, Dec. 2, 1730, bought land of Daniel 

Sutton. ^-^ 
Clapp, G^lson, March 15, 1731, bought land of James 

Anderson. 
Cla^v, John, April 16, 1722, bought land of John Howe. 
Clap^, John, son of John Clapp, May 18, 1747, bought 

lahd of Mary Allyn. 
Clark, VELiraALET, May 10, 1741, bought land of Daniel 

Bank^ \ 
Clark, E>hraim, Nov. 9, 1732, bought land of his 

brother, James Clark. 
Clark, James, Aug. 3, 1731, bought land of Stephen 

Brush. 
Clauson, Stephen, May 9, 1744, bought land of Samuel 

Hutton. 
Close, Benjamin, Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 

Dec. 13, 1709, deed to land from his father, Thomas 

Close. 

April 13, 1723, he and his brother Joseph bought land. 

Aug. 26, 1723, deed to land from his brother John. 

Sept. 12, 1748, deeded land to his son Samuel. 
Close, Hannah, March 21, 1723, received distributive 

share of the estate of Thomas Close. 
Close, John, Dec. 13, 1709, deed to land from his father, 

Thomas Close. 

Aug. 26, 1723, sold land to his brother Benjamin. 



452 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Close, Jonathan, March 20, 1744, bought land of 

Benjamin Smith. 
Close, Joseph, May 10, 1697, granted ten acres at 

Horseneck. 

Dec. 13, 1709, deed to land from his father, Thomas. 

April 15, 1725, he and his brother Benjamin bought 

land from their mother, Sarah. 

April 6, 1726, deeded land to his son, Joseph, Jr. 

Nov. 6, 1728, deeded land to his son Solomon. 
Close, Joseph, Jr., May 2, 1737, bought land of Jonathan 

Mead. 

April 6, 1726, deed to land from his father, Joseph. 
Close, Reuben, Sept. 30, 1739, bought land of Benjamin 

Close. 
Close, Ruth, and others, Jan. 20, 1752, deed of gift from 

Benjamin Close. 
Close, Samuel, Sept. 12, 1748, deed of gift from Ben- 
jamin Close. 
Close, Sarah, March 21, 1723, received distributive 

share of the estate of Thomas Close. 
Close, Solomon, Nov. 6, 1728, deed to land from his 

father Joseph. 
Close, Thomas, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

Jan. 22, 1670, granted a parcel of land. 

Dec. 31, 1678, granted a parcel of land at Horseneck. 

Dec. 13, 1709, deeded land to his sons, Joseph, Benja- 
min, and John. His wife, Sarah, sold land in 1723, at 

Clapboard Ridge. 
Close, Thomas, Jr., Sept. 19, 1694, granted three acres at 

Horseneck. 

Feb., 1728, deed to Sarah for her interest in her father's 

estate. 

On April 2, 1702, a Thomas Close deeded land to his 

daughter, Hannah Close. 

March 29, 1 736, Thomas Close, son of Thomas Close, had 

a parcel of land laid out on account of his father's right. 
Coe, Andrew, Feb. 20, 1746, bought land of James 

Anderson. 
Coe, John, Sept. 20, 1659, sold a parcel of land to William 

Hubbard. 
Coe, John, Feb. 19, 1738, bought land of William Anderson. 
Cornwell (Cornell), Joshua, March 8, 1722, bought 

land of Samuel Mills. 



Landowners 453 

CoRNWELL (Cornell), Samuel, April 21, 1729, bought 

land of Benjamin Close. 
Crab, Richard, 1656, submitted to the jurisdiction of 

the New Haven Colony. 
Crawford, John, Dec. 20, 1749, bought land of David 

Palmer, Jr. 
Cromwell, James, Dec. 29, 1729, bought land of Samuel 

Mills. 
Daniels, Thomas, March 22, 1726, bought land of 

Richard Ogden. 
Darling, John, March 22, 1721, bought land of Ben- 
jamin Hobby. 
Darling, Joseph, and others, Aug. 26, 1723, bought land 

of Nathan Smith. 
Davis, Hannah, Sept. 31, 1737, deed of gift from Ger- 

shom Lockwood. 
Davis, Isaac, April 16, 1743, bought land of his father-in-law, 

Gershom Lockwood. 
Demill, Anthony, Nov. 4, 1730, bought land of Joseph 

Marshall, Jr. 
Demill, Peter, Aug. 30, 1713, bought land of Mary 

Sherwood. 
Dennis, George, Aug. 4, 1729, bought land of Nathan 

Smith. 
Dennis, Hannah, and others, June 16, 1743, deed of 

gift from Gershom Lockwood. 
Denton, Humphrey, Sept. 6, 1745, bought land of Rev. 

Abraham Todd. 
Denton, Joseph, June 21, 1723, bought land of John 

Clapp, and others. 
Derby, John, Oct. 20, 1719, bought land of John Close. 
Dibble, Ebenezer, Aug. 6, 1729, bought land of Henry 

At wood. 
Dickinson, John, Dec. 16, 1719, bought land of Caleb 

Ferris. 
DiSBROW, John, 1743, bought land of Justus Bush. 

Feb. 10, 1745, Lydia Disbrow, his executrix, sold to 

Richard Hurlburt. 
Downs, John, Jr., Sept. 12, 1719, bought land of Joseph 

Ferris. 
Edgit, George, April 7, 1736, bought land of Jacob 

Wanser. 
EvERiTT, Richard, Jan. 4, 1742, bought of John Bene- 
dict's wife all her right in the estate of Joseph Finch. 



454 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Feaks, Robert, 1640, one of the original purchasers. 
Felmen (Flemun), Cornelius, Dec. 23, 1728, bought 

land of Charles Thomas. 
Ferris, Abigail, Jan. 4, 1749, bought land of David 

Reynolds and others. 
Ferris, Ann, Feb. 13, 1733, deed of gift from Gershom 

Lockwood. 
Ferris, Benjamin, May 10, 1697, granted ten acres of 

land at Horseneck. 

Dec. 29, 1735, his father's estate distributed to him and 

his brothers, Moses, Joshua, and Joseph. 
Ferris, Benjamin, March 26, 1743, had a parcel of land 

laid out on his father's, Joseph's, right. 
Ferris, Caleb, Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land at 

Cos Cob. 
Ferris, David, Oct. i, 1736, bought land of his father, 

Moses Ferris. 
Ferris, Elijah, Sept. i, 1739, bought land of his father, 

John Ferris. 
Ferris, Eliphalet, Dec. 29, 1749, bought land of Caleb 
^j^ Ferris. 
Ferris, Jabez, March 22, 1749, bought land of Benjamin 

Ferris. 
Ferris, James, 1665, one of the original patentees, 

Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 

Dec. 30, 1 700, granted part of the lowermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Ferris, James, Jr., Aug. 21, 1718, sold to his brother 

Joseph. 
Ferris, James, March 13, 1719, deeded land to his sons, 

James, Nathaniel, and Samuel. 
Ferris, James, son of James Ferris, Jan. 15, 1705, 

bought land of John Ferris. 

March 30, 1719, grant of land to him and his brothers, 

Samuel and Nathaniel. 
Ferris, Jeffere, June 21, 1687, agreement among the 

heirs of. 
Ferris, Jeremiah, April 20, 1738, bought land of his 

uncle, Joshua Ferris. 
Ferris, John, about 1700, granted a parcel of land. 
Ferris, John, son of Joseph Ferris, Jan. 17, 1707, sold a 

parcel of land to Samuel Mead. 

1722, 1729, 1739, and 1730, deeded land to his sons. 



Landowners 455 

John, Peter, and Elijah, and to his son-in-law, Joseph, 
Rundle, respectively. 

March 3, 1729, bought of Joshua, Joseph, Caleb, Ben- 
jamin, and Moses Ferris, all their right in their father's 
estate. 

Ferris, John, Jr., Nov. 17, 1722, bought land from his 
father, John Ferris. 

Ferris, Jonathan, Jan. 8, 1744, bought land of Caleb 
Ferris. 

Ferris, Joseph, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

March 17, 1696, granted a parcel of land at Strickland 
Brook, formerly belonging to John Mead. 
Aug. 21, 1735, distribution of his father's estate to him 
and his brothers, Moses, Benjamin, and Joshua. 

Ferris, Joseph, Jan. 6, 1725, sold his interest in his 
father's, Caleb Ferris' s, land. 

Ferris, Joshua, June 16, 171 1, bought of his mother, 
Ruth Ferris, widow of Joseph Ferris, all her right, title, 
and interest in his estate. 

Dec. 29, 1735, his father's estate distributed to him and 
his brothers, Moses, Benjamin, and Joseph. 

Ferris, Joshua, Feb. 20, 1747, bought land of his father, 
Moses Ferris. 

Ferris, Moses, Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 
Dec. 29, 1736, his father's estate distributed to him and 
to his brothers, Benjamin, Joshua, and Joseph. 

Ferris, Moses, Jr., May 30, 1748, bought land from his 
father, Joseph Ferris. 

Ferris, Nathaniel, March 19, 17 19, his father's estate 
distributed to him and his brothers, Samuel and James. 

Ferris, Peter, Nov. 15, 1683, granted three acres of 
land. 

July 16, 1705, sold to Moses, Benjamin, and Caleb 
Ferris all his right, title, and interest in lands lying east 
of the Mianus River. 

Ferris, Peter, April i, 1729, bought land of his father, 
John Ferris. 

Ferris, Ruth, widow of Joseph Ferris, June 15, 1711, 
sold to her son, Joshua Ferris, all her right, title, and 
interest in her husband's estate. 

Ferris, Samuel, March 30, 171 9, his father's estate distri- 
buted to him and his brothers, James and Nathaniel. 

Ferris, Samuel, Jr., son of Peter Ferris, June 10, 1743, 
bought land of Nathan Smith, Jr. 



456 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Ferris, Timothy, July 8, 1745, bought land of his brother, 

Peter Ferris. 
Field, Robert, Dec. 10, 1729, bought land of Joshua 

Comwell (Cornell). 
Finch, Abigail, daughter of Joseph Finch, Sept. 22, 

1742, sold land to Abraham Hays. 
Finch, Benjamin, Oct. 29, 1723, bought land of Jonathan 

Newman. 
Finch, Ebenezer, May 16, 1735, he and his brother, 

Ezekiel Finch, had a parcel of land laid out on the right 

of Joseph Finch, deceased. 
Finch, Ezekiel, Feb. 4, 1734, bought of his brother 

Joseph all his right, title, and interest in their father's, 

Joseph Finch's, estate. 
Finch, Isaac, of Stamford, Feb. 5, 1706, bought land of 

Joseph Palmer. 
Finch, Jeremiah, March 24, 1749, bought land of Samuel 

Finch. 
Finch, John, mariner, Jan. i, 1697, granted one acre of 

land. 
Finch, Jonathan, Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of 

land. 
Finch, Joseph, March 23, 1664, granted a parcel of 

meadow land at Mianus Neck. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the lowermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 

Dec, 1673, granted an interest in the outlands lying 

between the Mianus and the Byram Rivers. 

171 1 and 1 713, deeded lands to his sons, Joseph and 

Jonathan. 
Finch, Joseph, Jr., Feb. 29, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 

June 3, 1 71 3, bought land of his father, Joseph Finch. 
Finch, Joseph, son of Joseph Finch, Feb. 25, 1735, 

bought of Ezekiel Finch, all his right in divided lands. 
Finch, Joseph and Ruth Finch, March 20, 1712, sold 

land to Jonathan Mead and Nathan Mead. 
Finch, Nathaniel, Nov. 10, 1731, bought land of Nathan 

Whelpley. 

Dec. 9, 1733, bought of Joseph Finch all his right, title, 

and interest in his father's, Joseph Finch's, land. 

March 2, 1733, sold land to his brother, Ebenezer Finch. 
Finch, Samuel, March 21, 1701, granted nine acres of 

land at Horseneck. 



Landowners 457 

1 714, he and his wife, Mary, sold all their right, title, 

and interest in the estate of Samuel Marshall to Daniel 

Marshall and Joseph Marshall, 

May 10, 1734, his widow sold land to Isaac Holmes. 
FiSK, Jonathan, Jan. 6, 1739, bought land of David 

Mead. 
Fountain, James, Nov. 23, 1708, bought land of Samuel 

Peck. 
Fowler, William, and others, April 18, 17 19, bought 

land of Israel Knifhn. 
Francis, William, Feb. 3, 1721, bought land of Joseph 

Dickinson. 
Franklin, Henry, Jan. i, 1729, bought land of Richard 

Ogden. 
Franklin, Sarah, Feb. 25, 1732, deed of gift from Joshua 

Com well (Cornell), Sr. 
Franklin, Thomas, Sept. i, 1731, had laid out with 

Samuel Willson and John Clapp a parcel of land. 
Galpin, Joseph, April 3, 1710, bought land of Stephen 

Sherwood. 
Garnsey, Jonathan, May i, 1746, bought land of Ben- 
jamin Bishop. 
Green, Charles, Sept. 18, 1733, bought land of Nathan 

Smith. 
Green, Reuben, Aug. 6, 1731, bought land of John Lyon. 
Griffen, Ezekiel, April 13, 1734, bought land of Abraham 

Wanser. 
Grigg, John, Sept. 28, 1752, bought land of James Mead. 
Guernsey, Jonathan, Jan. 25, 1747, bought land of 

John Fountain. 
Haight, Charity, May 29, 1733, bought land of Joseph 

Haight. 
Haight, James, Dec. 14, 1723, bought land of Joseph 

Ackerly. 
Haight, John, 1707, bought land of Henry Rich. 
Haight, Joseph, March 6, 1732, bought land from Gillson 

Clapp. 
Haight, Joshua, see Jonathan Whelpley. 
Haight, Thomas, Feb. 27, 1734, bought land of Israel 

Knapp. 
Hanford, Hannah, and others, Nov. 28, 1698, deed of 

gift from Gershom Lockwood. 
Harcourt, Richard, Feb. 20, 1744, bought land from 

the executors of the estate of John Desco. 



458 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Hare (or Heire), Samuel, April 3, 1739, bought land of 

William Anderson. 
Harris, Joseph, son of Moses Harris, May 11, 1743, 

bought land of Thomas Close. 
Hart, Jacob, June 11, 1746, bought land of Jeremiah 

Scofield. 
Hart, Samuel, Jan. 2^], 1719, sold all his right, title, and 

interest in lands in Greenwich to Elnathan Mead. 
Haviland, Solomon, Dec. 18, 1746, bought land from 

Andrew Coe. 
Hays, Abraham, Dec. 11, 1728, bought land of Gershom 

Lockwood. 

1740, sold to Ezekiel Finch all his right, title, and in- 
terest in the estate of his father-in-law, Joseph Finch. 
Hays, David, June 26, 1735, bought land from Jacob 

Hays. 
Hays, Jacob, Dec. 5, 1734, bought land from Isaac 

Quintard. 
Healy, John, March 8, 1735, bought land of Nathan 

Smith. 
Hethcut, Caleb, Colonel, March 14, 1701, bought land 

from Thomas Marshall. 
Hibbard, Jonathan, Dec. 28, 1749, bought land of Samuel 

Mead, Jr. 
Hill, Mr., Feb. 6, 1670, granted twenty acres of land at 

Horseneck, upon condition that he become an inhabi- 
tant of the town within two years. 
Hitt, Henry, Dec. 24, 1713, bought land of Mary Sher- 
wood, widow, and others. 
Hitt, Samuel, Jan. 22, 1731, bought land of Jeremiah 

Anderson. 
Hitt, Sarah, June 13, 1729, bought land of Timothy 

Knapp. 
Hobby, Benjamin, May 10, 1697, granted ten acres of 

land at Horseneck. 

Jan. II, 1703, bought land from his father, John Hobby. 
Hobby, Benjamin, son of Jonathan Hobby, Feb. 25, 

1749, bought land of his father. 
Hobby, Ebenezer, Feb. 8, 1750, deed of gift from his 

father, Jonathan Hobby. 
Hobby, John, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

March 16, 1666, granted a swamp so far as it adjoins 

his lot. 



Landowners 459 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Hobby, John, Jr., Dec. 14, 1725, bought land of Isaac 

Rundle. 

March 17, 1731, bought land of his father, Thomas 

Hobby. 

March 9, 1737, he and his brother Jonathan made an 

agreement in reference to the estate of John Hobby, 

deceased. 

July 17, 1746, deeded land to his son, Thomas. 
Hobby, Jonathan, 1705, granted a parcel of land. 
Hobby, Jonathan, Jr., Dec. 13, 1743, bought land of 

Daniel Hubbard. 
Hobby, Jonathan, Sept. 20, 1744, bought land of Joseph 

Knapp. 

Feb. 26, 1750, deeded land to his sons, Benjamin and 

Jonathan Hobby. 
Hobby, Joseph, Feb. 26, 1750, deed of gift from Jona- 
than Hobby. 
Hobby, Thomas, Nov. 15, 1683, granted three acres of 

land. 

Nov. 14, 1699, bought land of Jonathan Mead. 

March 17, 1731, deeded land to his son, John Hobby. 
Hobby, Thomas, July 17, 1744, bought land of his father, 

John Hobby. 
HoiT, Thomas, and others, Feb. 27, 1734, bought land of 

Israel Knapp. 
Holly, Mr., Feb. 6, 1671, granted the plains lying south- 
west of Strickland Brook, upon condition that he be- 
comes an inhabitant of the town within two years. 
Holly, John, carpenter, April 4, 1709, granted leave to 

cut timber to build two boats. 
Holly, Nathaniel, Sr., Jan. 14, 1739, bought land of 

Samuel Burley, et al. 
Holmes, Benjamin, Nov. 6, 1721, distributee of his father's 

estate. 

Feb. 26, 1725, distributed to him and his brother 

Stephen. 

March 17, 1727, sold land to his brother, Jonathan. 
Holmes, Isaac, Nov. 6, 1721, distributee of his father's 

estate. 

Dec. 26, 1730, bought land of Jonathan Holmes, part 

of his father's, Stephen Holmes's, estate. 



460 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Holmes, Jonathan, March 16, 171 3, bought land of 

Gershom Lockwood. 

March 16, 1713, sold to Gershom Lockwood the right 

of his father, Stephen Holmes. 
Holmes, Mary, Sept, 15, 1693, deed of gift from John 

Hobby, Sr, 
Holmes, Stephen, May 21, 1698, granted a parcel of 

land. 
Holmes, Stephen, Dec. 6, 1721, distributee of his father's, 

Stephen Holmes's, estate, 
HoRTON, John, and others, Dec. 22, 1723, bought land 

from Mary Sherwood, widow, and others. 
Howe, Isaac, Feb. 19, 1700, bought land of Jonathan 

Mead. 
Howe, Isaac, Jr., Feb. 16, 1739, bought land of Justus 

Bush, 
Howe, John, Feb, 6, 1699, granted ten acres of land. 
Hubbard, Abraham, April 12, 1742, granted a parcel of 

land. 
Hubbard, Abraham, Jr., April 19, 1750, bought land of 

his father. 
Hubbard, Daniel, Sept. 9, 1729, bought land of his 

father, William Hubbard. 
Hubbard, George, Nov. 15, 1683, granted three acres of 

land. 
Hubbard, John, Feb. i, 1702, granted a parcel of land. 
Hubbard, William, Sept. 20, 1659, bought a parcel of 

land of John Coe. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Hubbard, William, Jr., Jan. 14, 1687, granted a home 

lot. 

Sept. 2, 1729, deeded land to his son, Daniel. 
Hubbell, Jehiel, Feb. 12, 1744, bought land of James 

Ferris. 

March 18, 1745, he and Abigail Hubbell sold to Na- 
thaniel Sackett all their right, title, and interest in 

their father's estate. 
HuGFORD, Thomas, Sept. 13, 1742, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 
Hull, John, Jr., Nov. 22, 1727, bought land of Samuel 

Peck, Sr., and others. 
Hurlburt, Richard, Feb. 20, 1745, bought land of John 

Disbrow. 



Landowners 461 

HusTED, Angell, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the lowermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 

Dec. 29, 1686, granted twelve acres of land. 

Aug. 4, 1683, deeded land to his son, David. 

June 18, 1702, deeded land to his son, John. 

1704, deeded land to his son, Angell. 
HusTED, Angell, Jr., March 19, 1717, deeded land to his 

son, Jonathan. 

1726, deeded land to his sons, Ebenezer and Moses. 
Husted, Ann, July 8, 1652, gift from Robert Husted, Sr. 
Husted, Benjamin, March 27, 1730, bought land of 

Ebenezer Knapp. 
Husted, David, Aug. 4, 1683, bought land of his father. 
Husted, David, Feb. 16, 1721, bought land of his father, 

Joseph Husted. 
Husted, Ebenezer, Feb. 7, 1727, deed of gift from his 

father, Angell Husted. 
Husted, John, June 18, 1702, bought land of his father, 

Angell Husted, Sr. 
Husted, Jonathan, Jan. 6, 1698, sold his grant to Joseph 

Palmer. 
Husted, Jonathan, June 20, 1682, deed of gift from 

Angell Husted. 
Husted, Jonathan, son of Angell Husted, Dec. 29, 1686, 

granted three acres of land. 
Husted, Jonathan, son of Jonathan Husted, March i, 

1744, sold land to Isaac Holmes. 
Husted, Joseph, Nov. 15, 1683, granted three acres of land. 

Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 

Feb. 21, 1 72 1, deeded land to his son, David Husted. 
Husted, Mary, and others, April 4, 1706, deed of gift 

from Angell Husted. 
Husted, Moses, March 2, 1693, granted six acres of land. 

March 3, 1 726, bought land of his father, Angell Husted. 
Husted, Nathaniel, Nov. i, 1726, bought of John 

Husted all his undivided interest. 
Husted, Robert, Oct. 5, 1648, bill of sale from Andrew 

Messenger. 
Husted, Samuel, Aug. 28, 1693, granted three acres of land. 

Nov. 14, 1733, bought land of Henry Smith. 
Husted, Zebulon, Feb. 26, 1730, bought land of Samuel 

Husted. 



462 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

HuTCHiNGS, Absalom, April 19, 1751, bought land of 

John Hatchings. 
HuTCHiNGS, John, Oct. 4, 1746, bought land of Benjamin 

Sutton. 
HuTTON, Samuel, April 10, 1744, bought land of Nehe- 

miah Marshall. 
Ingersoll, Josiah, July 31, 1747, bought land of Jona- 
than Fisk. 
Ingersoll, Simon, April 23, 1739, bought land of Samuel 

Palmer, Jr. 
Ireland, Adam, Nov. 9, 1727, bought land of Samuel 

Mills. 
Ireland, Job, March 8, 1748, bought land of Adam 

Ireland. 
Jagger, Jonathan, Jan. 2, 1719, bought land of Gershom 

Lockwood. 
James, Henry, March 6, 1706, granted two acres of land. 

Feb. 8, 1 71 5, bought land of Joseph Lockwood. 
Jarman, Charles, March 4, 171 8, bought land of John 

Howe. 
Jarman, Isaac, Feb. i, 1716, bought land of Samuel Mills. 

Dec. 10, 1724, sold land to Charles Jarman. 
Jenkins, Samuel, March 16, 1666, granted a swamp so 

far as it adjoins the rear of his lot. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the meadows lying south 

of the Westchester Path. 
Jessup, Hannah, and others, Feb. 22, 1712, deed from 

Samuel Marshall. 
Jessup, Jonathan, 171 6, bought land of Samuel Husted. 
Johnson, James, Feb. 23, 1748, bought land of Benjamin 

Ferris. 
Johnson, John, March 17, 1737, bought land of Nathaniel 

Marshall. 

Feb. 3, 1740, sold all his right, title, and interest in 

his mother's (in-law), Abigail Marshall's, thirds to 

Thomas Marshall, Jr. 
Johnson, Samuel, July i, 1751, bought land of Jeremiah 

Peck and others. 
Johnson, Thomas, June 21, 171 5, bought land of John 

Howe. 
Johnson, William, March 5, 1750, bought land of Daniel 

Marshall. 
Jones, Eliphalet, Rev., May 28, 1668, granted fifteen 

acres of land on the east side of Cos Cob Neck. 



Landowners 463 

Feb. 2, 1670, it was granted on condition that if 

Eliphalet Jones will come and settle as an inhabitant, 

he is to have a parcel of land lying by the Mianus 

River and a brook called Strickland Brook. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the lowermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 

July I, 1673, reconveys to the town. 
Joyce, John, Dec. 22, 1737, bought land of Timothy 

Mead. 
June, James, and others, Jan. 20, 1724, bought land of 

Joseph Palmer. 
June, Peter, Jan. 12, 1710, bought land of William 

Hubbard. 
June, Thomas, Jan. 20, 1724, bought land of Joseph Palmer. 
Ketchum, Samuel, June 6, 1748, bought land of Nathan- 
iel Finch. 
Kirkum, John, May 17, 1731, bought land of Timothy 

Knapp. 
Knapp, Benjamin, May 10, 1697, granted ten acres of 

land at Horseneck. 

Jan. 4, 1 719, deeded land to his sons, Benjamin, James, 

and Joshua. 

Oct. 23, 1728, bought of his brother Joshua his interest 

in his mother's thirds. 
Knapp, Caleb, Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 

Nov. 25, 1728, deeded land to his sons, Charles and 

Nathaniel. 

June 26, 1 731, deeded land to his son, Caleb. 

Dec. 12, 1749, deeded land to his son, Timothy. 
Knapp, Caleb, Jr., Aug. 2, 1722, bought land of John 

Howe. 

Feb. 13, 1725, deed from his father, Caleb Knapp. 

Oct. 17, 1729, bought land of his brother, Charles Knapp. 

Nov. 30, 1749, deeded land to his son, Caleb Knapp. 
Knapp, Caleb, 30, March 30, 1748, bought land of Jabez 

Mead. 
Knapp, Charles, Nov. 28, 1728, deed from his father, 

Caleb Knapp. 

Oct. 17, 1729, sold land to his brother, Caleb Knapp. 
Knapp, Daniel, Jan. 4, 1728, distributee of his father's 

estate. 

May I, 1736, sold to Joseph Knapp all his right, title, 

and interest in his uncle's, Joseph KJnapp, deceased, 

lands at Tinamon's Ridge. 



464 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Knapp, David, March 27, 1731, bought land of Joseph 

Knapp, 

Jan. 12, 1737, distributee of his father's, Benjamin 

Knapp's, estate. 
Knapp, Ebenezer, Jan. 9, 1728, bought land of Ebenezer 

Husted. 

April 8, 1734, bought land of his father, Joshua Knapp. 
Knapp, Elizabeth, Feb. 25, 1736, distributee of the es- 
tate of Benjamin Knapp. 
Knapp, Isaac, Oct. i , 1 734, bought land of John Knapp. 
Knapp, Israel, March 5, 1729, deeded to him by his 

father, Timothy Knapp, one-half interest in the home- 
stead at Greenwich, Old Town. 
Knapp, James, June 4, 1719, he and his brothers, Joseph 

and Joshua, had distributed to them from the estate of 

their father. 
Knapp, John, of Stamford, March 12, 1724, bought land 

of Jonathan Jager. 
Knapp, John, April 12, 1730, bought land of Joseph Rey- 
nolds. 

April 8, 1734, deeded to him by his father, Joseph 

Knapp. 
Knapp, Jonathan, April 8, 1734, bought land of his 

father, Joshua Knapp. 
Knapp, Joseph, Jan. 14, 1686, granted a home lot. 
Knapp, Joseph, Jan. 8, 1730, bought land of Abraham 

Hubbard, which came to him from his uncle, Joseph 

Knapp. 

Feb. 9, 1738, had laid out a parcel of land to him and 

his brothers, Joshua and James. 
Knapp, Joseph, owned land on Tinamon's Ridge prior to 

1733- 
Knapp, Joshua, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 

March 28, 1734, bought of his brother, Caleb Knapp, all 

his right, title, and interest in the estate of Joseph 

Knapp, deceased. 

April 8, 1734, deeded land to his sons, Jonathan, John, 

and Ebenezer. 
Knapp, Joshua, Jr., Nov. 15, 1683, granted three acres of 

land (brothers Benjamin and Joseph). 



Landowners 465 

Knapp, Moses, April 15, 1669, granted a parcel of 
meadow land at Cos Cob Neck, lying between Mr. 
Jones's land and Cellar Neck. 

Knapp, Nathaniel, March 4, 1740, lived at Round Hill, 
bought land of his father, Caleb Knapp. 

Knapp, Prudence, Nov. 6, 1734, bought land of Israel 
Knapp. 

Feb. 27, 1733, sold to Israel Knapp all her right, title, 
and interest in the estate of her father, Timothy Knapp. 

Knapp, Timothy, Dec. 21, 1708, granted a parcel of land. 
March 5, 1729, deeded land to his son, Israel Knapp, 
one-half interest in homestead at Greenwich, Old Town. 

Knapp, Timothy, Dec. 12, 1749, bought land of his 
father, Caleb Knapp. 

Knapp, Timothy, son of Israel Knapp, Jan. 21, 1752, 
sold land to John Ferris. 

Kniffin, Nathan, Jr., Feb. 21, 1743, bought land of 
Joseph Sherwood. 

Lawrence, James, April 21, 1741, bought land of George 
Dennis. 

Lewis, Jacob, Oct. 16, 1721, bought land of William 
Anderson. 

Lewis, Thomas, May 6, 1741, bought land of Sylvanus 
Palmer. 

LiCKQUEER, Johanus, Dec. 19, 1 710, bought land of Joseph 
Close, et al. 

Lloyd, John, Nov. 7, 1748, bought land of Daniel Mar- 
shall. 

LocKwooD, Abigail, daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan 
Lockwood, received Sept. 13, 1697, from her brother, 
Gershom Lockwood, her share of her father's estate. 

Lockwood, Benjamin, Jan. i, 1741, deed of gift from 
Joseph Lockwood. 

Lockwood, Caleb, Aug. 19, 1752, bought land of Still 
John Lockwood. 

Lockwood, Daniel, Feb. 25, 1751, bought land of Sam- 
uel Birdsall. 

Lockwood, David, Nov. 25, 1728, bought land of his 
father, Robert Lockwood. 

Nov. 13, 1729, he and his brother, Samuel, sold land to 
John Marshall, Jr. 

Lockwood, David, Jr., son of Gershom Lockwood, Dec. 29, 
1 750, bought land of his father. 



466 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

LOCKWOOD, EzEKiEL, Jan. 21, 1738, deed of gift from 

Joseph Lockwood. 

Oct. 21, 1743, sold land to his father, Joseph Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Gershom, March 23, 1664, granted a parcel of 

meadow land lying at Mianus Neck. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Lockwood, Gershom, brother of Joseph Lockwood, Aug. 

23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 
Lockwood, Gershom, son of Gershom Lockwood, April 9, 

1 715, bought land of Timothy Knapp. 

March i, 1726, deeded land to his son, Gershom 

Lockwood. 

April 2, 1729, he had a parcel of land laid out to him 

and his brother, Joseph Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Gershom, son of Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood, 

Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 
Lockwood, Gershom, of Cos Cob, Feb. 8, 1734, bought 

of his son, Nathan Lockwood, all his right, title, and 

interest in the estate of his brother, Jabez Lockwood. 

Feb. 6, 1733, deeded land to his daughter, Hannah 

Lockwood. 

May 7, 1747, bought land of his son, Hezekiah Lockwood. 

Feb. 20, deeded land to his sons, Gershom and Theo- 

philus Lockwood. 

Dec. 20, 1750, bought land of his son, David Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Gilbert, Oct. 28, 1748, bought land of Still 

John Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Hannah, and others, Dec. 12, 1748, life 

lease from Gershom Lockwood, and others. 
Lockwood, Hezekiah, Feb. 2, 1733, bought land of his 

father, Gershom Lockwood. 

May 7, 1747, deed to him and Nathan Lockvv^ood by 

their father. 
Lockwood, Jabez, Aug. 18, 1726, bought land of his 

father, Gershom Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Jeremiah, Jan., 1741, deed of gift from Joseph 

Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Jonathan, Lieutenant, Dec. 30, 1670, granted 

part of the uppermost meadows lying south of the 

Westchester Path. 
Lockwood, Jonathan, Jr., Jan. 14, 1686, granted a home 

lot. 



Landowners 4^7 

LocKwooD, Jonathan, April 8, 1735, deed of gift from 

his father, Joseph Lockwood. 
LocKWOOD, Joseph, son of Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood, 

Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 
Lockwood, Joseph, son of Gershom Lockwood, May 7, 

1707, granted a parcel of land. 

April 2, 1729, he and his brother Gershom had laid 

out to them their father's right in the 4th, 5th, and 6th 

divisions. 
Lockwood, Joseph, May 4, 1733, deeded land to his 

sons, Jonathan and Nathaniel Lockwood. 

Oct. 23, 1 740, deeded lands to his son, Ezekiel Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Mary, widow, June 5, 1696, agreement with 

Thomas Merritt. 
Lockwood, Mary, and others. May 9, 1688, deed of gift 

from Jonathan Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Nathan, Nov. ii, 1725, bought land of his 

father, Gershom Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Nathaniel, March 23, 1733, bought land of 

his father, Joseph Lockwood. 

March 13, 1734, he and Nathaniel Finch sold to Tho- 
mas Benedict all their right, title, and interest in their 

father-in-law's, Timothy Knapp's, land. 

Sept., 1743, bought of Jeremiah Lockwood all his right, 

title, and interest in land of his father, Joseph Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Robert, Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of 

land. 

Jan. 4, 1728, deeded land to his son, Samuel Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Ruth, and others, Nov. 14, 1741, bought 

land of Israel Knapp. 
Lockwood, Samuel, Jan. 4, 1728, deed from his father, 

Robert Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Sarah, and others, Nov. 28, 1698, deed of 

gift from Gershom Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Still John, May 9, 1688, deed of gift from 

Jonathan Lockwood. 
Lockwood, Theophilus, Dec. 2, 1748, bought land of 

Gershom Lockwood. 

Feb. 4, 1748, with Gershom Lockwood, bought land of 

his father. 
Lyon, Caleb, May 18, 1742, bought land of Joseph Rey- 
nolds and John Ferris. 
Lyon, Daniel, May 2, 1737, bought land of Samuel 

Banks. 



468 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Lyon, David, Aug. 20, 1728, bought land of Thomas 

Lyon. 
Lyon, Elizabeth, and others, July 26, 1728, bought land 

of Samuel Mead and others. 
Lyon, Gilbert, March 22, 1742, bought land of Jabez 

Sherwood. 
Lyon, John, Sr., and others, Nov. 5, 1718, Proprietors of 

Byram Neck. 
Lyon, John, Jr., Sept., 1714, bought land of William 

Hubbard. 
Lyon, Jonathan, and others, July 26, 1728, bought land 

of his father, Thomas Lyon. 
Lyon, Joseph, and others, March 22, 1712, granted a 

parcel of land. 
Lyon, Joseph, Feb. 22, 1732, bought land of his father, 

Thomas Lyon. 
Lyon, Samuel, 1706, granted a parcel of land. 
Lyon, Thomas, Feb. 13, 1676, granted a parcel of land 

lying along the Byram River. 

1722, bought of Joseph Lyon all his right, title, and in- 
terest in the estate of Samuel Lyon, deceased. 

Feb. 22, 1732, deeded land to his sons, Joseph and 

Jonathan. 

Feb. 13, 1733, deeded land to his son, Thomas Lyon. 
Marsh, Jonathan, and others, Nov. 4, 1727, bought 

land of Gershom Lockwood, Sr. 
Marshall, Abigail, March 25, 1730, distribution of es- 
tate of. 
Marshall, Daniel, March i, 1698, granted a parcel of 

land. 
Marshall, Daniel, son of Daniel Marshall, July 10, 

1736, sold to Samuel Marshall, Jr., all his right, title, 

and interest in land of his uncle, Samuel Marshall, 

deceased. 
Marshall, David, June 11, 1726, bought land of John 

Marshall, Jr. 
Marshall, Elihu, Aug. 16, 1731, bought land of John 

Marshall. 
Marshall, Hannah, Aug. 6, 1747, distribution of estate of. 
Marshall, Jehu, and others, Sept. 10, 1744, bought land of 

John Marshall, Jr. 
Marshall, John, April 15, 1669, granted a parcel of 

meadow land at Cos Cob Neck, lying between Mr. 

Jones's land and Cellar Neck. 



Landowners 469 

Marshall, John, son of John Marshall, Dec. 13, 1726, 

bought of his mother, Abigail Marshall, and his brother, 

David Marshall, all their right, title, and interest in 

their father's home lot. 
Marshall, John, Dec. 14, 1693, bought land of John 

Hobb. 

1708, deeded land to his son, David. 

1 71 2, deeded land to his son, Joseph. 

1 712, deeded land to his son, John. 
Marshall, John, Jr., Feb. 4, 1689, granted a parcel of 

land. 

Jan. 8, 1 714, bought of John, Joseph, and Daniel Mar- 
shall, all their right, title, and interest in the lands of 

Samuel Marshall, deceased. 
Marshall, John, April 16, 1740, he and his father, 

Thomas Marshall, bought land of Jonathan Reynolds 

and Josiah Reynolds. 
Marshall, Joseph, Sept. 15, 1697, bought land of Moses 

Husted. 

May 2, 1712, bought land of his father, John Marshall. 

Sept., 1736, deeded land to his son, Thaddeus Marshall. 

April 28, 1749, his daughter and his mother sold all 

their right, title, and interest in his estate to Thaddeus 

Marshall. 
Marshall, Joseph, Jr., May 8, 1730, bought land of 

John Marshall. 

July 10, 1736, bought of Daniel Marshall all his right, 

title, and interest in the estate of his uncle, Samuel 

Marshall, deceased. 
Marshall, Mary, April 26, 1749, bought land of Israel 

Knapp, and others. 
Marshall, Mycajah, Sept. 10, 1744, bought land of 

John Marshall. 
Marshall, Samuel, Jan. 2, 1710, deed of gift from John 

Marshall, Sr. 
Marshall, Thaddeus, Sept. 2, 1736, bought land of his 

father, Joseph Marshall. 
Marshall, Thomas, Aug. 28, 1693, granted four acres of 

land. 

April 16, 1740, he and his son, John Marshall, bought 

land of Jonathan Reynolds and Josiah Reynolds. 
Matthews, John, Feb. 11, 1747, bought land of John 

Moe. 
Mead, Amos, May 20, 1751, bought land of David Mead. 



470 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Mead, Benjamin, Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 
Mead, Benjamin, Jr., Jan. 22, 1746, bought land of 

Benjamin Mead at Quaker Ridge. 
Mead, Caleb, Jan. 15, 1719, bought land of Daniel 

Banks. 
Mead, Charles, Aug. 8, 1741, bought land of Gershom 

Mead. 
jAAead, Daniel, 1706, granted a parcel of land. 
'^^Mead, Daniel, Feb. 10, 1732, bought land of James 
/^ Reynolds. 

Mead, David, Aug. 12, 1698, bought ten acres of land at 

the foot of ye great hill at Horseneck. 
Mead, David, Dec. 6, 1724, bought land of his father, 

Ebenezer Mead. 
Mead, David, Jr., 1730, bought land of Ebenezer Mead, Jr. 
Mead, Ebenezer, Dec, 1684, granted a home lot. 
Mead, Eliphalet, April 3, 1731, bought land of Nathaniel 

Mead. 
Mead, Elisha, Jan. 10, 1694, deed from estate of Joseph 

Mead. 
Mead, Elisha, son of Elisha Mead, June 10, 1743, 

bought land of his brother, Joseph. 
Mead, Elizabeth, March 24, 1727, deed of gift from 

Gershom Lockwood, Jr. 
Mead, Elnathan, Feb. 5, 171 7, distributee of the estate 

of his father, Samuel Mead, deceased. 

Dec. 26, 1719, bought of Samuel Mead, all his right, title, 

and interest in his mother's thirds. 

Feb. 15, 1726, bought of his brother, John, all his right, 

title, and interest in his mother's thirds, and also from 

Jonathan Brown, all his right in Samuel Mead's home 

lot. 
Mead, Ezekiel, April 17, 1738, he and Joshua Mead 

sold land to Justus Bush. 
Mead, Gilbert, March 9, 1749, bought land of Reuben 

Mead. 
Mead, Hannah, March 26, 1715, bought land of Thomas 

Bullis. 
Mead, Hezekiah, 1729, he and his brother, Jonathan, 

sold land to Justus Bush. 
Mead, Isaac, Aug. 13, 1722, sold to James Mead, all his 

right, title, and interest in the estate of his father and 

mother. 
Mead, Israel, and others, March 3, 1721, distributees. 



Landowners 471 

Mead, Jabez, Feb. 17, 1726, bought land of Elnathan 

Mead. 

April 26, 1727, bought land of his father, Ebenezer 

Mead. 
Mead, Jacob, Sept. 7, 1731, bought land of Ebenezer 

Mead. 

1753, bought of Rebecca Rundle, all her right, title, 

and interest in her father's estate. 
Mead, James, June 26, 1723, distributee of the estate of 

his father, Jonathan Mead. 

Aug. 23, 1722, bought of Isaac Mead, all his right, title, 

and interest in the estate of his father and mother. 

Feb. 12, 1722, bought of Jonathan, Isaac, and Tim- 
othy Mead all their right, title, and interest in their 

mother's estate. 

Dec. 3, 1726, bought of his sister, Mary, all her right, 

title, and interest in her father's and mother's estate. 
Mead, Jeremiah, March 3, 1720, distributee of the estate 

of his father, Israel Mead. 
Mead, Jeremiah, son of Caleb Mead, July 10, 1749, 

bought land of Justus Mead. 
Mead, John, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

Oct. 26, 1660, bought land of Richard Crab. 

Dec. 21, 1 661, bought a parcel of land from Thomas 

Stud well. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the lowermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Mead, John, Jr., Nov. 15, 1683, granted three acres of 

land. 
Mead, John, son of John Mead, Jr., April 11, 1715, 

bought land of William Hubbard. 
Mead, John, Captain, Feb. 5, 171 7, distributee of the 

estate of his father, Samuel Mead, deceased. 

Feb. 15, 1726, sold to his brother, Elnathan, all his 

right, title, and interest in his mother's thirds. 
Mead, John, Jr., son of John Mead, March 15, 1736, 

bought land of Abraham Reynolds. 
Mead, Jonas, April 5, 1748, bought land of Joshua Rey- 
nolds. 
Mead, Jonathan, Sr., about 1700, granted a parcel of 

land. 
Mead, Jonathan, cooper, Dec. 26, 1706, bought land of 

Isaac Howe. 



472 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Dec. 4, 1728, deed to him and his brother from his 

mother and his father-in-law, Joseph Finch. 
Mead, Jonathan, Jr., Dec. 3, 171 7, distributee of the 

estate of his father, Jonathan Mead. 
Mead, Jonathan, and his wife, April 13, 171 8, sold all 

their right, title, and interest in the estate of Joseph 

Husted, deceased. 
Mead, Jonathan, son of Jonathan Mead, Jr., June 10, 

1745, bought land of his father. 
Mead, Joseph, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the lowermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Mead, Joseph, Jr., son of Joseph Mead, Nov. 15, 1683, 

granted three acres of land. 
Mead, Joseph, son of John Mead, Jan., 1687, granted a 

home lot. 
Mead, Joseph, son of Joseph Mead, April 12, 1722, 

bought of his brother, Theophilus, his one-sixth interest 

in the estate of his father. 

Nov. 17, 1725, bought of his brother, Zachariah, his 

one-sixth interest in the estate of his father. 
Mead, Joseph, son of Elisha Mead, May 4, 1738, bought 

of Elisha Mead, all his right, title, and interest in the 

estate of his father. 
Mead, Josiah, Feb. 15, 1726, sold land to Samuel Mead. 

Feb., 1 73 1, he and Joseph Mead had a parcel of land laid 

out. 

Feb. 28, 1732, sold to John Marshall, all his right, title, 

and interest in the estate of his father-in-law, John 

Marshall. 
Mead, Justus, son of Elisha Mead, July 10, 1749, sold 

land to Jeremiah Mead. 
Mead, Martha, and others, Dec. 3, 171 7, distributee of 

the estate of Jonathan Mead. 
Mead, Moses, Jan. 12, 1731, bought land of Jonathan 

Mead. 
Mead, Nathan, Feb. 12, 1722, granted a parcel of land. 

Dec. 14, 1727, deed to him and his brother, Jonathan, 

by his mother and his father-in-law, Joseph Marshall. 
Mead, Nathaniel, May 10, 1697, granted ten acres of 

land at Horseneck. 
Mead, Nehemiah, Dec. 15, 1746, bought land of his father, 

Benjamin Mead. 



Landowners 473 

Mead, Obadiah, Dec. 15, 1746, bought land of Benjamin 

Mead, Sr. 
Mead, Peter, April 6, 1740, bought land of Israel Mead. 

May 4, 1 741, deed of gift from his father, Samuel Mead. 
Mead, Reuben, March 15, 1737, bought land of Abra- 
ham Rundle. 
Mead, Ruth, widow of John Mead, about 1700, deeded to 

her sons, Jonathan and Nathan, by consent of her last 

husband, Finch. 

Mead, Samuel, Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of land. 
Mead, Samuel, Jr., Feb. 5, 171 7, distributee of the 

estate of his father, Samuel Mead, deceased. 

May 4, 1 741, deeded land to his son, Peter Mead. 
Mead, Samuel, son of Samuel Mead, Jr., March 19, 1746, 

bought land of Joseph Owens. 
Mead, Silas, Feb. 4, 1743, bought land of James Haight. 
Mead, Theophilus, March 3, 1721, distributee of the 

estate of Joseph Mead. 

April 22, 1722, sold to his brother, Joseph, his one-sixth 

interest in the estate of his father. 
Mead, Timothy, Dec. 7, 1727, bought land of Nathan 

Smith. 
Mead, Titus, March 11, 1751, bought land of Caleb 

Mead, and others. 
Mead, Zachariah, Feb. 8, 1695, granted four acres of 

land. 
Mead, Zachariah, March, 1720, distributee of the estate 

of his father, Israel Mead. 
Merritt, Caleb, Dec. 16, 1741, bought land of John 

Merritt. 
Merritt, Daniel, Feb. 17, 1743, had laid out on his 

father's right a parcel of land. 
Merritt, John, Dec. 30, 1726, bought land of Elizabeth 

Haight, and others. 
Merritt, Nathan, Dec. 19, 1749, bought land of Daniel 

Merritt. 
Miller, Abraham, May 24, 1722, bought land of John 

Coe, and others. 
Miller, Abraham, Jr., May 13, 1745, bought land of 

Justus Bush. 
Mills, Denton, July 27, 1752, bought of Samuel Mills, 

his right in his father's estate. 



474 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Mills, Samuel, Jan. i8, 1712, bought land of Samuel 

Husted. 

Feb. 24, 1 73 1, deeded land to his son, Samuel, Jr. 
Mills, Samuel, Jr., March 19, 1716, bought land of his 

father, Samuel Mills. 
Mills, Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel Mills, March 2, 1748, 

bought land of Caleb Reynolds. 
Mitchell, George, June 18, 1739, bought land of John 

Rail. 
MoE, John, Oct. 22, 1725, bought land of John Ferris. 
MoE, Peter, July 4, 1749, bought land of Joseph Sackett. 
Morgan, Joseph, Rev., Jan. 9, 1704, granted Strickland 

Brook at Cos Cob, for a tide mill. 
Morris, Thomas, Oct. 7, 1707, bought land of Stephen 

Holmes and Jonathan Hobby. 
MuNSON, Stephen, Rev., April 23, 1728, bought land of 

Samuel Mills. 
Nealy, John, March 8, 1735, bought land of Nathan 

Smith, 
Newman, Jonathan, June 6, 1720, bought land of Joseph 

and Jonathan Finch. 
Nichols, Abraham, Feb. 10, 1725, bought land of Jona- 
than Whelpley. 
Nicholson, Henry, 1656, submitted to the jurisdiction of 

the New Haven Colony. 
Ogden, Daniel, Feb. 12, 1742, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 
Ogden, David, Joseph, and Richard, June 2, 1696, deed 

from the Indians to lands west of the Byram River. 
Ogden, John, Feb. 7, 1731, bought land of Samuel Mills. 
Owens, Jonathan, March 26, 1735, bought of Joseph 

Knapp, Jonathan Knapp, and Israel Knapp, all their 

right, title, and interest in the estate of their uncle, Joseph 

Knapp, deceased. 
Owens, Joseph, March 14, 1740, bought land of Ephraim 

Palmer. 
Palmer, Benajah, May 17, 1737, bought land of Ephraim 

Bostwick. 
Palmer, David, Jan. 18, 1723, bought land of John Ferris. 

July I, 1749, deeded land to his son, David. 
Palmer, Ephraim, May 23, 1673, granted ten acres of land. 

Dec, 1673, granted an interest in the outlands lying 

between the Mianus and the Byram Rivers. 

Oct. 25, 1699, estate of release. 



Landowners 475 

Palmer, James, May 24, 1673, granted six acres of land. 
Dec. 18, 1 71 1, deeded land to his son, Samuel. 

Palmer, Jeremiah, Feb. i, 1742, bought land of Jona- 
than Hobby. 

Palmer, John, March 31, 1671, granted eight acres of 
land to be laid out by the Mianus River. 

Palmer, John, son of Ephraim Palmer, Dec. 15, 1702, 
received from his mother, now Sarah Gregory, his share 
of his father's estate. 

Palmer, John, March 17, 1743, he and his sons, John and 
Messenger, had laid out on the right of Ephraim Palmer 
a parcel of land. 

Palmer, John, Jr., Feb. 20, 1733, bought land of Jona- 
than and Nathan Reynolds. 
1737, bought land of his father, John Palmer. 
March 17, 1743, he, his father, and his brother. Mes- 
senger Palmer, had laid out on the right of Ephraim 
Palmer a parcel of land. 

Palmer, Jonathan, June 15, 17 19, bought land of Sam- 
uel Mills. 

Palmer, Joseph, Aug. 20, 1689, bought land of John 
Hobby, Sr. 
March 6, 1721, deeded land to his son, Joseph. 

Palmer, Joseph, Jr., March 6, 1721, bought land of his 
father, John Palmer. 

Palmer, Messenger, March 17, 1743, he, his father, and 
his brother, John Palmer, had laid out on the right of 
Ephraim Palmer a parcel of land. 

Palmer, Nathan, June 10, 1743, granted a parcel of land. 

Palmer, Nathaniel, March 14, 1746, bought land of 
Benjamin Bishop. 

Palmer, Nehemiah, Aug. 13, 1743, bought land of Peter 
Demill, and others. 

Palmer, Peter, Dec. 12, 1723, deed of gift from his father, 
William Palmer. 

Palmer, Samuel, Dec. 18, 171 1, deed of gift from his 
father, James Palmer. 

Palmer, Samuel, Jr., April 2-], 1739, bought land of 
Simon Ingersoll. 

Palmer, Solomon, May 13, 1752, bought land of John 
Clapp. 

Palmer, William, May 24, 1677, granted a parcel of land. 
Feb. 6, 1699, granted ten acres of land. 



476 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Palmer, William, Jr., Nov. 15, 1683, granted a parcel of 

land. 

1723, deeded land to his sons, Peter and William. 
Parsons,' Eli, Oct. 23, 1744, bought land of William 

Palmer. 
Patrick, Daniel, July, 1640, bought land of the Indians. 
Patrick, Daniel, March 14, 1670, the town obtained a 

deed of all his outstanding interests. 
Peck, Caleb, Nov. 10, 1710, sold to Samuel Mills one- 
half of his father's. Rev. Jeremiah Peck's, right. 
Peck, David, March i , 1 724, he and his brother, Nathaniel 

Peck, sold land to Caleb Mead. 

Feb. 2, 1725, bought of Caleb Peck, all his interest in 

the lands of his father. Rev. Jeremiah Peck. 
Peck, Eliphalet, July 8, 1728, deed of gift from Samuel 

Peck. 
Peck, Jeremiah, Rev., 1672, one of the proprietors. 
Peck, Jeremiah, Oct., 1709, he and his brother, Joshua, 

sold land to Still John Lockwood. 

July I, 1725, sold to Samuel Peck, all his right, title, 

and interest in the estate of his father, Rev. Jeremiah 

Peck. 
Peck, Jeremiah, Oct. 10, 1738, had a parcel of land laid 

out. 
Peck, Joseph, Nov. 4, 1720, bought land of Ebenezer 

Mead. 
Peck, Joshua, July i, 1725, sold all his right, title, and 

interest in the estate of his father. Rev. Jeremiah Peck, 

to Samuel Peck. 
Peck, Nathaniel, March i, 1724, he and his brother, 

David Peck, sold land to Caleb Mead. 
Peck, Nehemiah, Oct. 3, 1734, bought land of Joshua 

Ferris. 
Peck, Peter, Oct. 4, 1728, deed of gift from Samuel Peck. 
Peck, Robert, March 13, 1731, deed of gift from Samuel 

Peck, at Pecksland. 
Peck, Samuel, son of Rev. Jeremiah Peck, 1665, one of 

the original patentees. 

March, 1679, granted a parcel of land. 

July I, 1725, bought land of Joshua and Jeremiah, 

sons of Rev. Jeremiah Peck. 

Jan. 28, 1728, deeded land to his sons, Robert and The- 

ophilus, at Pecksland. 

Feb. 6, 1733, deeded land to his son, Nathaniel. 



Landowners 477 

Oct. 10, 1738, deeded land to his sons, Jonathan and 

Peter. 
Peck, Theophilus, Jan. 23, 1728, he and his brother, 

Robert, had deed of gift from their father, Samuel Pec/51, 

of land at Pecksland. 
Peet, James, Feb. 10, 1731, bought land of James Reynolds. 
Peet, Thomas, Dec. 30, 1746, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 
Perry, John, May 26, 1722, bought land of Jonathan 

Reynolds. 
Peterson, Hanc, 1656, submitted to the jurisdiction of 

the New Haven Colony. 
Pickett, Ebenezer, and others, Feb. 27, 1734, bought 

land of Israel Knapp. 

March 5, 1734, sold all his right, title, and interest in the 

land of his father-in-law, Timothy Knapp. 
Pierson, Abraham, Rev., Aug. 2, 1692, granted a home 

lot formerly granted to Jasper Vedito, consisting of 

four acres. 
Pine, Rachel, May 4, 1744, bought land of James Law- 
rence. 
Pine, Samuel, June 16, 1744, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 
Place, John, March 23, 1749, bought land of Charles 

Mead. 
Platt, Benoni, March 5, 1746, bought land of John 

Howe. 
Potts, Thomas, Dec. 20, 1719, had a parcel of land laid 

out. 
Price, Richard, June 10, 1741, bought land of Joseph 

Marshall, Jr. 
Price, William, Dec. 21, 1708, granted a parcel of land. 
Prindle, Benjamin, April 23, 1722, bought land of 

Nathaniel Worden. 
PuRDY, Benjamin, Oct. 20, 1743, bought land of Nathan 

Smith, Jr. 
PuRDY, Francis, Jr., Nov. 5, 1718, bought land of John 

Banks, 
PuRDY, John, Feb. 19, 1722, bought land of Joseph 

Studwell. 
PuRDY, Joseph, March 9, 1721, bought land of Jonathan 

June 21, 1754, granted liberty to build a grist-mill, dam, 
and bridge, at Mianus. 



478 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

PuRDY, Samuel, and others, April 13, 1724, bought land 

of Mary Sherwood, widow, and others. 
QuiMBY, JosiAH, Feb. 5, 1726, granted a parcel of land. 
i^jiNTARD, Isaac, Feb. 24, 1732, bought land of Henry- 
James. 
Rall, John, Dec. 7, 1729, bought land of William 

Beardsley. 
Rall, Mangle Johnson, Dec. 2'], 171 1, bought land of 

Jonathan Vowls. 
Rassom (?), Joshua, May 13, 1672, granted a home lot. 
Ratleff, William, March 23, 1664, granted a parcel of 

meadow land at Mianus Neck. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Raymond, John, June 27, 1739, bought land of John 

Banks. 
Reynolds, Benjamin, Dec. 10, 1723, bought of Deacon 

John Reynolds, all his lands in Greenwich. 
Reynolds, Caleb, Oct. 19, 1742, deed of gift from his 

father, Joshua Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Daniel, Nov. 17, 1742, deed of gift from his 

father, Joshua Reynolds. 
Reynolds, David, Jan. 10, 1709, bought land of Joseph 

Knapp. 

March 6, 1733, sold his right in the estate of his 

brother, Benjamin, to Joseph Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Ebenezer, Feb. 8, 1695, granted four acres 

of land. 

May 10, 1697, granted ten acres of land at Horseneck. 
Reynolds, Elizabeth, Dec. 17, 1727, distributee of the 

estate of Joseph Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Francis, Feb. 22, 1750, deeded to him by his 

grandfather, James Reynolds, and his three brothers 

and three sisters, a parcel of land, children of Nathaniel 

Reynolds, sons were Nathaniel, Stephen, Solomon, and 

Francis. 
Reynolds, Gideon, Feb. 23, 1736, bought land of 

Nathaniel Mead. 

April 14, 1 74 1, he and his brothers, James and^Nathan- 

iel, bought land from their father, James Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Hezekiah, March 30, 1731, deed of gift from 

his father, Jonathan Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Isaac, March 6, 1733, sold land to his brother, 

Joseph. 



Landowners 479 

Reynolds, James, May 10, 1697, granted ten acres of 

land. 
Reynolds, James, Jr., April 14, 1741, he and his brothers, 

Nathaniel and Gideon, bought land from their father, 

James Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Jeremiah, son of Jonathan Reynolds, Jan. 21, 

1 73 1, bought land of Daniel Mead. 

April 16, 1740 he and his brother, Josiah, sold land to 

Thomas Marshall and John Marshall. 
Reynolds, John, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the lowermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 
Reynolds, John, Jr., Nov. 15, 1683, granted three acres of 

land. 

April 28, 1725, deeded land to his sons, David and Peter. 
Reynolds, John, son of John Reynolds, Jan. 14, 1686, 

granted a home lot. 
Reynolds, John, Feb. 11, 1719, bought land of his father, 

Jonathan Reynolds. 

Feb. 16, 1726, bought land of his brother, Jonathan. 
Reynolds, John, son of Joseph Reynolds, March 6, 

1734, bought land of his brother, Joseph. 

June 2, 1735, sold to his brother, Joseph, all his right, 

title, and interest in the lands of his brother, Benjamin. 
Reynolds, John, son of Joshua Reynolds, Feb. 16, 1741, 

bought land of his father. 
Reynolds, Jonathan, 1665, one of the original patentees. 

Jan. 14, 1686, granted three acres of land at Cos Cob. - 

Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the lowermost meadows 

lying south of the Westchester Path. 

Jan. 5, 1707, deeded land to his son, Jonathan. 

Feb. II, 1 719, deeded land to his son, John. 
Reynolds, Jonathan, son of Jonathan Reynolds, Aug. 23, 

1700, granted a parcel of land. 
Reynolds, Jonathan, son of John Reynolds, July 23, 

1700, granted a parcel of land lying near ye great hill at 

Horseneck, near land of John Burrell 
Reynolds, Joseph, 1701, had laid out a parcel of land. 

1726, bought land of his brother, Jonathan. 
Reynolds, Joseph, Jr., son of Joseph Reynolds, March 2, 

1720, bought land of his father. 

Dec. I, 1734, bought of his brother, Reuben, his inter- 
est in the estates of his father and his brother, Ben- 
jamin, also the interest of his other brothers. 



480 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

March 10, 1741, bought land of John Ferris, and his 

son, EHjah Ferris. 
Reynolds, Joshua, Feb. 11, 1712, bought land of Ger- 

shom Lock wood. 

Feb. 16, 1 741, deeded land to his son, John. 

Nov. 17, 1742, deeded land to his sons, Daniel and 

Caleb. 
Reynolds, Josiah, Jan. i, 1728, bought of Jonathan 

Reynolds one-half of his father's right. 

April 16, 1740, he and his brother, Jonathan, sold land 

to Thomas Marshall, and his son, John Marshall. 
Reynolds, Justus, April 24, 1738, deed of gift from his 

father, James Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Mary, July 24, 1734, deed of gift from Daniel 

Mead. 
Reynolds, Nathan, June 11, 1727, bought land of Joseph 

Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Nathaniel, Feb. 23, 1736, bought land of 

Nathaniel Mead. 

April 14, 1741, he and his brothers, James and 

Gideon, bought land of their father, James Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Nathaniel, Jr., Dec. 21, 1743, bought land of 

Nathan Lockwood. 

May 17, 1743, deed to him and his brother, Ebenezer, 

from their father 
Reynolds, Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel Reynolds, Feb. 

22, 1750, distributed to him and his brothers and sisters, 

from the estate of their grandfather, James Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Nehemiah, March 27, 1731, bought of Joseph 

Reynolds, his interest in the estate of his father, Joseph 

Reynolds. 

March 27, 1731, sold his right in the estate of his 

brother, Benjamin, to his brother, Joseph. 
Reynolds, Peter, April 20, 1725, bought land of his 

father, John Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Reuben, Dec. 7, 1734, sold to his brother, 

Joseph, his right in the estates of his father, Joseph Rey- 
nolds, and his brother, Benjamin Reynolds. 
Reynolds, Ruth, widow, and others, Feb. 22, 1750, deed of 

gift from James Reynolds, Sr. 
Reynolds, Sarah and Hannah, March 11, 1749, had 

distributed from the estate of their father, Peter 

Reynolds. 



Landowners 481 

Reynolds, Solomon, Feb. 22, 1750, distributee of James 

Reynolds, Sr. 
Reynolds, Stephen, Feb. 22, 1750, distributee of James 

Reynolds, Sr. 
RiTCH, Henry, May 19, 1686, granted three acres of land. 
RiTCH, Thomas, Feb., 1715, receipt from Antoni Nouguir. 
RiTCH, Thomas, Jr., June 16, 1738, bought land of Isaac 

Rundle. 
Roberts, Zachariah, Sept. i, 1691, granted one acre of 

land. 
Robinson, John, Nov. 5, 1677, granted leave to build a 

sawmill on the Byram River. 
Robinson, William, May 31, 1735, bought land of 

Nathaniel Sherwood. 
Rodgers, Jonathan, March 15, 1723, sold land to Ben- 
jamin Ferris. 
Rodgers, Richard, May 4, 1727, bought land of Peter 

Boyd. 
Rundle, Abraham, Nov. 24, 1725, he and Abigail 

Rundle sold to Samuel Rundle one-third of the right 

of William Rundle. 

March 26, 1722, bought of Isaac Rundle his right 

in the lands of his father, William Rundle. 

Nov. 13, 1724, bought of Jacob Rundle his right in the 

lands of his father. 
Rundle, Abraham, Jr., April 10, 1740, bought land of 

John Burley. 
Rundle, Charles, Sept. i, 1740, bought land of John 

Tyler, Jr. 
Rundle, Eli, Jan. 15, 1742, bought land of his father, 

John Rundle. 

April 2, 1750, he, Samuel and John Rundle, sold land 

to Isaac Holmes. 
Rundle, Ezra, Jan. 4, 1750, deeded land by his father. 
Rundle, Isaac, March 8, 1722, sold to Abraham Rundle 

his interest in the lands of his father, William Rundle. 

Sept. 13, 1723, bought land of William Rundle. 
Rundle, Jacob, Nov. 13, 1724. sold to Abraham Rundle 

his interest in the lands of his father. 
Rundle, John, Dec. 13, 1709, granted a parcel of land. 

April 24, 1727, bought land of his brother, Samuel. 

May 10, 1734, bought land of his father-in-law, 

Joshua Knapp. 

1742, deeded land to his sons, Eli and John. 



482 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

RuNDLE, John, Jr., March 10, 1743, deeded land by his 

father, John Rundle. 
RuNDLE, Joseph, Nov. 10, 1727, bought land of William 

Rundle. 

March 15, 1730, deed of gift from his father (in-law), 

John Ferris. 
Rundle, Samuel, Nov. 22, 17 10, bought land of his 

father, William Rundle. 

April 24, 1727, he and his brother, John, bought land 

of Benjamin Mead. 

Oct. 7, 1747, deeded land to his son, Samuel. 

June 4, 1750, deeded land to his son, Ezra. 
Rundle, William, Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the 

uppermost meadows lying south of the Westchester 

Path. 

March i, 1671, granted eight acres of land to be laid 

out by the Mianus Rivsr. 

Nov. 22, 1 7 10, deeded land to his sons, Samuel and 

John. 
Rundle, William, Jr., Feb. 15, 1714, bought of Abigail 

and Abraham Rundle their one-third interest in the 

estate of their father, William Rundle. 
Sackett, Joseph, March 18, 1745, bought land of 

Nathaniel Sackett. 

March 18, 1746, sold to Nathaniel Sackett his right 

in the estate of his father, Richard Sackett. 
Sackett, Nathaniel, Sept. 9, 1741, bought land of 

Nathaniel Finch, 
Sackett, Richard, Rev., March 9, 17 16, bought land of 

Joseph Finch. 

1 71 7, granted several parcels of land. 
ScoFiELD, Jeremiah, Dec. 21, 1727, bought land of 

Josiah Reynolds. 
ScoFiELD, Jonas, Oct. 27, 1743, bought land of Jeremiah 

Scofield. 
ScoFiELD, Richard, March 7, 1698, bought a parcel of 

land. 
Scofield, Richard, Jr., Oct. 27, 1743, bought land of his 

father, Jeremiah Scofield. 
Scott, Lazarus, March 2, 1724, bought land of Joseph 

Dickinson. 
Scribner, Uriah, May 15, 1749, deed of gift from Sarah 

Scribner. 



Landowners 483 

ScuDDER, Thomas, April 2, 1719, bought land of John 

Brush. 
Seaman, Daniel, April 19, 1753, bought land of Gabriel 

Worden. 
Shaw, Mary, and others, Sept. 20, 1745, bought land of 

Joshua Ferris. 
Shaw, William, Jan. 21, 1743, bought land of Benjamin 

Ferris. 

Shay, Michael, Nov. 26, 1676, bought land of Richard 

Bullard. 
Sherwood, Jabez, Aug. 14, 1704, bought land of Joseph 

Palmer. 

Sherwood, Joseph, Sr., Feb. 16, 1738, bought land of 

William Anderson. 
Sherwood, Nathaniel, Jan. 31, 1734, bought land of 

Jeremiah Anderson. 
Sherwood, Samuel, Jan. 2^, 1730, bought land of Deliv- 
erance Brown. 
Sherwood, Stephen, March 16, 1674, granted an interest 

in the outlands lying between the Mianus and the 

Byram Rivers. 
Sherwood, Stephen, of Rye, June 25, 1696, confirms 

sale of the mill at the Mianus River to Dr. John 

Butler of Stratford. 
Shete, Samson, May 8, 168- received a receipt from 

Jeremiah Peck. 
Silleck, John, and others, Dec. 17, 1686, received a 

caution from Francis Thome. 
Silleck, Jonathan, Dec. 17, 1686, received a caution 

from Francis Thome. 
Silleck, Nathan, July 23, 1742, bought land of John 

Brush. 
Simons, Adam, April 6, 1738, bought land of Alexander 

Allen. 
Slawson, Eleazer, March 18, 1708, bought land of 

Daniel Mead. 
Smith, Benjamin, March 16, 1722, deeded land by his 

father, Daniel Smith. 
Smith, Caleb, Jan. 20, 1724, bought land of Joseph 

Palmer. 
Smith, Charles, March 3, 1739, sold to Joshua Knapp, 

all his right in his mother-in-law's thirds. 
Smith, Daniel, May 23, 1673, granted six acres of land. 



484 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Dec, 1673, granted an interest in the outlands lying 
between the Mianus and the Byram Rivers. 
March 21, 1706, deeded land to his son, Daniel. 

April 23, 1722, deeded land to his sons, Nathan and 

Benjamin. 
Smith, Daniel, Jr., Aug. 23, 1700, granted a parcel of 

land. 

Dec. 22, 1724, granted liberty to build a wharf at the 

mouth of Horseneck Brook, at the landing there, for the 

use of the town. 

April 7, 1726, he and his brother, Benjamin, had a parcel 

of land laid out on their father's right. 
Smith, David, of Stamford, April 5, 1728, granted a 

parcel of land. 
Smith, Ebenezer, March 29, 1742, bought land of David 

Smith. 
Smith, Ezra, March 9, 1739, bought land of Moses 

Smith. 
Smith, Henry, Jan. i, 1730, bought land of Timothy 

Knapp. 
Smith, Joseph, Nov. 14, 1709, bought land of Nathaniel 

Bowers. 

March 10, 1729, he, Charles Webb, and James June, 

bought of Joseph Palmer, all his right, title, and interest 

in the estate of Joseph Knapp 
Smith, Moses, Jan. 20, 1724, bought land of Joseph 

Palmer. 
Smith, Nathan, March 16, 1721, deeded land by his 

father, Daniel Smith. 
Smith, Nathan, Jr., March 11, 1740, bought land of his 

father, Nathan Smith. 
Smith, Samuel, Dec. 4, 1738, bought land of Peter 

Palmer. 
Smith, Samuel, of Stamford, April 23, 1742, bought land 

of David Smith 
Smith, William, Nov. 2, 1748, bought land of Richard 

Willis. 

Sniffen, Caleb, May 2, 1750, bought land of Jonathan 

Lyon. 
Sniffen, Nathan, Feb. 21, 1742, bought land of Joseph 

Sherwood. 
Stoakham, John, May 6, 1748, bought land of Jonathan 

Lyon. 



Landowners 485 

Stoakham, Samuel, Feb. 18, 1720, bought land of 

Gershom Lockwood. 
Stoakham, Stephen, June 19, 1751, bought land of John 

Stoakham. 
Strong, Benjamin, Rev., April 12, 1739, bought land of 

Peter Ferris. 
Studwell, Joseph, March 28, 1706, granted a parcel of 

land. 
Studwell, Martha, March 18, 1734, distributee of the 

estate of Thomas Studwell. 
Studwell, Thomas, 1656, submitted to the jurisdiction 

of the New Haven Colony. 

Feb. 22, 1658, bought a parcel of land of Richard Crab, 

which he conveyed to John Mead on Dec. 21, 1661. 
Studwell, Thomas, March 22, 1727, bought land of 

Gershom Lockwood. 
Sturges, Christopher, Nov. 23, 1725, bought land of 

John Howe. 
Sutherland, Roger, May 12, 1740, bought land of 

Ezekiel GrifEen, and others. 
Sutherland, William, Feb. 16, 1722, bought land of 

Joseph Dickinson. 
Sutton, Joseph, and others, Feb. 18, 17 18, bought land 

of Thomas Williams. 
Sutton, Thomas, and others, Feb. 18, 171 8, bought land 

of Thomas Williams. 
Taladay, Stephen, Sept. 5, 1734, bought land of John 

Ferris. 
Taladay, Stephen, Jr., Dec. 4, 1742, bought land of 

Stephen Taladay. 
Tashe, John, Dec. 31, 1678, granted a parcel of land at ye 

quarry. 
Thomas, Charles, March 8, 17 19, bought land of 

Thomas Hobby. 
Thomas, John, July 5, 1746, bought of his mother, 

Martha Thomas, all her interest in the estate of her 

husband. 
Thorne, Francis, Sept., 1688, grant made to him in 

1682 was cancelled. 
Todd, Abraham, Rev., May 29, 1733, bought land of 

Theophilus Peck. 
Tooker, Daniel, April 12, 1750, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 



486 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

TooKER, Joseph, Jan. 20, 1748, bought land of Jonathan 

Lyon. 
TowNSEND, JoNADAB, Aug. 1 8, 1 746, bought land of Solo- 
mon Close. 
Treat, Solomon, Rev., April ii, 1696, received a condi- 
tional grant of a parcel of land. 
Treen, Benjamin, Dec. i, 1743, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 
Turner, Lawrence, 1656, submitted to jurisdiction of 

the New Haven Colony. 
Tyler, Jehiel, Dec. 13, 1745, bought land of Benjamin 

Close, Jr. 
Tyler, John, April 28, 1740, bought land of Samuel 

Smith. 

April 21, 1744, deeded land to his son, John. 
UsTiCK, Thomas, and others, Sept. i, 1737, lease from 

John Clapp. 
Utter, Josiah, Nov. 26, 1739, bought land of Jeremiah 

Anderson. 
Valiant, William, Aug. 22, 1723, granted a parcel of 

land. 
Van Horn, John, Dec. 23, 171 5, he and Noah Barton 

bought land of Edward Avery. 
Van Pelt, Jacob, Feb. 16, 1726, bought land of Jacob 

Rundle. 
Vedito, Jasper, Dec. 29, 1686, granted a home lot, which 

was afterwards granted to Rev. Abraham Pierson. 
Wanser, Abraham, Nov. 16, 1724, bought land of Charles 

Jarman. 
Wanser, Jacob, Dec. 2, 1729, bought land of Nathan 

Mead. 
Waters (or Walters), Richard, Feb. 17, 1712, bought 

land of Elisha Mead. 
Webb, Charles, Jan. 20, 1724, bought land of Nathan 

Mead. 
Webb, Joshua, miller. May 12, 1691, granted four acres 

of land. 
Weed, Benjamin, Jan. 17, 1706, bought land of Ebenezer 

Mead. 
Weeks, Jonathan, Dec. i, 1728, bought land of Jona- 
than Mead. 
Wescott, John, miller, May 12, 1691, granted four 

acres of land. 



Landowners 487 

Wheaton, Daniel, Dec. 24, 1723, bought land of Ben- 
jamin Finch. 
Whelpley, David, Dec. 3, 1725, sold to John Burley 

all his interest in the estate of his father, Jonathan 

Whelpley. 
Whelpley, Jonathan, March 18, 1697, the town having 

recovered its rights in ye stream of the Mianus River 

heretofore granted to Joshua Haight, deceased, granted 

the same to Jonathan Whelpley, for a mill site. 
Whelpley, Jonathan, Nov. 25, 1734, bought land of 

his brother, Nathan, one-fourth of his father's right. 
Whelpley, Nathan, Jan. 28, 1724, deed to him from 

his father, Jonathan Whelpley's estate. 
Whiting, Ebenezer, Nov. 17, 1726, bought land of John 

Ferris. 
Whitney, Elizabeth, and others, Jan. 6, 1721, adminis- 
trator's deed from the estate of Joseph Finch. 
WiLLETT, William, Jan. 14, 1750, executor's deed from 

the estate of John Rail. 
Willis, John, March 28, 1746, bought land of Hicks 

Seaman. 
Willis, Richard, Oct. 16, 1747, bought land of John 

Willis. 
WiLLSON, John, Feb. 16, 1690, bought land at Cos Cob. 
Willson, John, Nov., 1691, he and his wife, Mary, 

released John Lyon, eldest son of Thomas Lyon, 

from any legacies under the will of Thomas Lyon, 

deceased. 
Willson, Joseph, Feb. 10, 1749, bought land of Richard 

Rodgers. 
Willson, Samuel, April i, 1724, bought land of John 

Willson. 
Willson, Samuel, Jr., Feb. 14, 1749, bought land of Samuel 

Sherwood. 
WiLMOT, Francis, May 13, 1747, bought land of Gershom 

Lockwood, 4th. 
WiNNANS, James, April 10, 1740, bought land of Hezekiah 

Reynolds. 
Wood, James, May 21, 1731, bought land of Peter Demill, 

and others. 
Wood, Joseph, Jan. 20, 1736, bought land of John Ferris, Jr. 
Worden, Daniel, March , 1738, bought land of Nathaniel 

Worden. 



488 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

WoRDEN, Gabriel, Sept. 12, 1751, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 
WoRDEN, Job, March , 1738, bought land of Nathaniel 

Worden. 
WoRDEN, Nathaniel, Dr., Dec. 12, 1720, granted a parcel 

of land. 

July 5, 1735, deeded land to his son, Nathaniel. 
Worden, Samuel, Jan. 13, 1740, bought land of Justus 

Bush. 
Wright, James, Oct. 20, 1691, bought land of Joseph 

Finch. 
York, Daniel, Dec. 24, 1712, bought land of Jonathan 

Reynolds, Sr. 
Young, Thomas, April 15, 1669, granted a swamp and a 

parcel of land at the lower end of the town. 

Jan. 12, 1670, granted three acres of land at Horseneck, 

when the neck is laid out. 



GENEALOGIES. 



ADAMS FAMILY. 



^Edward Adams, probably from County Somerset, 
England, came to America about 1637, and is to be foimd at 
New Haven in 1640, He removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, 
where he was a landowner in 1653, and where he died in 
1 67 1. His widow, Mary, survived him. Will dated August 
7, 1 67 1, probated November 11, 1671, mentions the following 
children: ^Samuel; ^Abraham; ^Mary, who m. ist Luke 

Guire, 2d, Merwin; 'Nathaniel, 21 in 1677, d. imm.; 

^John, d. unm.; and 'Nathan, a minor in 1677. 

'Abraham, b. about 1652, m. Sarah , and had ^Deborah, 

^Hannah, ^Mary, ^Abigail, ^Susannah and ^EHzabeth, all 
baptized in 1694. 
'Nathan, b. about 1661, m. Mary, dau. of Joseph James, and 
had, ^Nathan; ^Nathaniel, d. young; and ^Candey, all bap- 
tized Dec. 23, 1694; 3Ruth, baptized Oct. 11, 1696; ^Mary, 
b. Oct. 2, 1698; ^Jonathan, b. Sept. i, 1700; ^Avis, b. Nov. 
29, 1702; and ^Nathaniel, b. Oct. i, 1704, probably removed 
to Greenwich, but no further record could be found. 

'Samuel, b. about 1650, d. in 1794, m. ist in 1676, ; 

2d, July 15, 1679, Mary, dau. of Robert Meeker, after 
his death she m. Lyon, children: 

1. ^Samuel, b. Jan. i, 1677. 

2. ^Daniel, b. May 17, 1679, m. Rebecca , and had: 

1. ''Rebecca, bap. Aug. 30, 1702, m. Feb. 3, 1724, 
Joshua Jennings. 

2. '•Samuel, b. March 19, 1703. 

3. ^Daniel, b. June 29, 1705. 

4. "Sarah, b. in 1708. 

5. '•Elizabeth, b. in 171 1. 
By 2d wife : 

3. ^Sarah, b. May 3, 1681, d. young. 

4. ^Abigail, b. March 25, 1683, m. Elijah Crane. 

5. ^Elizabeth, b. Feb. 3, 1684. 

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490 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

6. 'Abraham, b. Jan. i, 1685, d. at FairiSeld in 17 19, m. 
Sarah , and had one child, Sarah, who d. young. 

7. 'Jonathan, b. Oct., 1686, d. young. 

8. 'David, b. June 24, 1689. 

9. 'Benjamin, b. Dec. 28, 1690. d. young. 

10. ^John, b. Sept. 6, 1692, d. in 1739, removed to Green- 
wich, (see Fairfield Probate Records, vol. 1716-1735, p. 
65), and was granted a parcel of land on Dec. 29, 1715; 
m. Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Husted, and had: 
I. ■♦Samuel, b. June 10, 1717, d. in 1747, m. Abigail 
Reynolds, who after his death m. David Whelpley, 
children : 

1. ^Nathaniel, b. in 1744, no further record. 

2. ^John, b. in 1746, a Revolutionary soldier, d. 
about 1834, m. 1st , 2d, Mary Conorey, 
of Elizabeth, N. J., children all by his 2d 
wife: 

1. ^Betsy, b. in 1777, d. at Carmel, N. Y., m. 
David Ferris. 

2. ^John, b. April 17, 1779, d. Oct. 2, 1826, 
m. Feb. 27, 1804, Mary Hobby, b. Feb. 
14, 1774, d. Oct. 24, 1828, and had: 

1. ''Mary E., b. May 23, 1805. 

2. 'Nathaniel E., b. July 7, 1807, d. Oct. 
21, 1894, m. in New York City, 
April 23, 1829, Sarah A. Dixon, b. 
April 23, 1806, d. April 16, 1890, and 
had : 

1. ^Charles W., b. Dec. II, 1829, m. 
Julia B. Elder, and had Charles 
W. and George E. 

2. ^James E., b. Dec. 14, 1833, d. 
young. 

3. ^Juha H., b. March 14, 1835, m. 
Colonel Albert M. Powell. 

4. ^James E., b. Feb. 7, 1840, d. 
April 27, 1877. 

5. ^John, b. June 14, 1841, d. Sept. 
24, 1889. 

6. ^Franklin, b. Dec. 27, 1845. 

3. 'Marilda H., b. Sept. 15, 1809. 

4. 'Susan C, b. Dec. 25, 1810. 

5. 'Sarah H., b. Aug. 10, 1812. 

6. 'John A., b. Aug. 7, 1814. 

7. 'Joseph, b. Jan. i, 181 7. 

3. ^Nathaniel, b. May 3, 1784, d. Dec. 11, 
1857, m. Oct. 15, 1809, Polly, daughter of 
Nathaniel and Jane (Clason) Lounsbury, 
b. June II, 1786, d. Sept. 7, 1859, and had: 



Adams Family 491 

1. ''Betsy, b. Aug. i6, 1810, d. young. 

2. 'Aaron, b. Nov. 14, 181 1, d. Dec. 27, 
1890, m. Margaret Dodgson. 

3. ■'Jane A., b. Dec. 31, 1812, m. Bates 
Fox of Stamford. 

4. 'Samuel, b. Sept. 8, 1814, d. Dec. 25, 
1885, m. I St, Caroline Prescott of 
New York City; m. 2d, May 26, 
1852, Margaret A., dau. of Henry 
and Margaret (Horton) Pearsall of 
New York City, b. Nov. 9, 1823, 
children all by his 2d wife : ^Howard 

N., ^Ella G., ^Walter H., ^Ida 
Belle, »Frank E., and ^Wellet 
G. 

5. 'Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1815, m. William 
Gray. 

6. 'Frances, b. June 26, 1817, ist wife of 
Charles G. Powellson. 

7. 'Phebe, b. Dec. 9, 1818, m. ist, 
Joseph Youngs, 2d Charles G. 
Powellson. 

8. 'Laura, b. Sept. 3, 1820, m. Andrew 
Hathaway. 

9. 'Elithere, b. Nov. 25, 1822, m. Jarvis 
Steadwell. 

10. 'David, b. April 12, 1824, d. young. 

11. 'Henry, b. Sept. 11, 1825, went to 
California in 1849, and thence to 
Seattle. 

12. 'Elizabeth, b. May 23, 1829, m. 
George Bissell. 

13. 'Charles E., b. Nov. 17, 1831, re- 
moved to Seattle. 

4. ^Abram, b. in 1786. 

5. ^Isaac, b. in 1789, d. young. 

2. ''Jonathan, b. Nov. 6, 1719. 

3. ^sarah, b. Aug. 6, 1721. 

4. 4john, b. Jan. 22, 1724, d. in 1757, no children. 

5. '•Elizabeth, b. April 17, 1727- 

AVERY FAMILY. 

The Genealogy of the Avery Family of Groton, Connecticut, 
by Homer DeLois Sweet, published in 1894, contains the 
genealogy of the Avery Family of Greenwich. It states 
that ^Christopher Avery, a weaver, was bom in England 



492 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

about 1590, came to Massachusetts with his only son ^ James, 
about 1630, and was selectman at Gloucester in 1646, 1652, 
and 1654. In 1658, he removed to Boston, and in 1663, he 
followed his son James to New London, Connecticut, where 
in 1665 he purchased a house and lot. He died March 12, 
1679, leaving him surviving his only child, James, who was 
bom in England about 1620. ^James Avery married, Novem- 
ber 10, 1643, Joanna Greenslade of Boston, by whom he had: 

1. ^Hannah, b. Oct. 12, 1644. 

2. ^James, b. Dec. 16, 1646. 

3. ^Mary, b. Feb. 19, 1648. 

4. ^Thomas, b. May 6, 1651. 

5. ^John, b. Feb. 10, 1654. 

6. 'Rebecca, b. Oct. 6, 1656. 

7. 'Jonathan, b. Jan. 5, 1658. 

8. 'Christopher, b. April 30, 1661. 

9. 'Samuel, b. Aug. 14, 1664. 

'JAMES, b. Dec. 16, 1646, d. Aug. 22, 1748, m. Feb. 18, 1669, at 
New London, Deborah, dau. of Edward Stallyon, d. March 
27, 1729, and had: 

1. ''Deborah, b. Aug. i, 1671. 

2. ''JAMES, b. April 20, 1673, d. Sept. 18, 1754. 

3. ''Margaret, b. Feb. 5, 1674. 

4. ''Edward, b. March 20, 1676. 

5. '•Ebenezer, b. May i, 1678. 

6. ''Christopher, b. Jan. 23, 1679. 

7. ''Jonathan, b. Nov. 9, 1681. 

8. "Mary, b. Aug. 4, 1683. 

9. ''Hannah, b. March 24, 1685. 

10. tSarah, b. May 10, 1688. 

11. "Joseph, b. Aug., 1691. 

12. ''Benjamin, b. in 1693. 

13. "Mary, b. in 1696. 

"JAMES, b. April 20, 1673, d. Sept. 18, 1754, m. in 1696, in New 
London, Mary, dau. of Matthew Griswold, d. Nov. 26, 
1750, and had: 

1. sjAMES, b. May 27, 1697, d. May 2, 1759. 

2. ^John, b. Feb. 4, 1700. 

3. ^Ebenezer, b. March 29, 1704. 

4. ^Eiihy^ or Elisha, b. July 29, 1707. 

5. ^Mary, b. Feb. 23, 1710. 

6. sfjannah, b. April 7, 17 12. 

7. spj.u(^ence, b. March 21, 1715. 

8. ^Thomas, b. in 1717. 

sjAMEs, b. May 27, 1697, d. May 2, 1759, m. Dec. 13, 1719, 
Elizabeth, dau. of Nehemiah Smith, d. April 4,41761 , and had : 
I. ^James, b. July 27, 1724. 



Avery Family 493 



2 



^Elizabeth, b. Jan. 13, 1726. 



3. ^David, b. Feb. 11, 1728. 

4. ^PETER, b. Feb. 22, 1730, d. Dec. 16, 1807. 

5. "^Prudence, b. March 16, 1732. 

6. ^Hannah, b. Dec. 15, 1735. 

7. ^John, b. Jan. 24, 1738. 

8. ^Aaron, b. Jan. 16, 1741. 

^PETER, b. Feb. 22, 1730, d. Dec. 16, 1807. He was a missionary 
to the Indians in Western New York, Pennsylvania, and 
Ohio, m. in 1759, Mary Niles, b. 1730, d. Jan. 10, 1800, and 
had: 

1. ^PETER, b. in 1760, d. in 1824. 

2. ''Rachel, b. in 1762. 

3. 'Istael, b. in 1764. 

4. ''Hannah, b. in 1766, m. Joseph Denton. 

5. ''John, b. in 1768, m. and had ^Zopher, ^Hannah, 
^Abram, ^Rachel, ^John and ^Betsy. 

6. ''Betsy, b. in 1770, m. Peter Denton. 

7. ''Reuben, b. March 7, 1772, d. May 22, 1873, m. ist, in 
1804, Rachel Baldwin, d. in 1822, m. 2d, in 1822, Mrs. 
Corinna Faxton, b. Dec. 23, 1789, d. Jan. 9, 1878, and 
had: 

1. ^George, b. April 29, 1805, d. young. 

2. ^Malvina, b. Feb. i, 1808. 

3. ^Alanson G., b. Dec. 17, 1810, d. in 1887. 

4. ^Rebecca, b. Sept. 12, 1813. 

5. ^Caroline, b. Sept. 8, 1815. 

6. ^James, b. Sept. 20, 1817, d. in 1846. 

7. ^Orlando, b. March 21, 1820. 

8. ^Frances, b. Dec. 29, 1821. 
By 2d wife: 

9. ^AmeHa, b. Oct. 22, 1823, m. Dwight W. Cook. 

10. ^Minerva, b. Oct. 21, 1825, d. June 30, 1883. 

11. ^Seth A., b. Dec. 27, 1826. 

12. ^Henry, b. July 15, 1828. 

13. ^Reuben, b. Dec. 10, 1829. 

14. ^Betsy, b. May 30, 1831. 

8. ''Ira, b. in 1774. 

9. ''Walter, b. in 1779, m. ist , 2d, Aug. 28, 
1800, Hannah, widow of William Avery, and had no 
children. 

'PETER, b. in 1760, d. in 1824, m. about 1799, Elizabeth Wilson, 
d. in 1820, and had: 



^Hannah, b. in 1800, m. WilHam Lockwood. 

® Catherine, b. 

^Levina, d. young. 

^Sarah, b. 

%VERT D.. b. July 3, 1809. 

^Amos, b. in 1811, d. unm. 



494 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

7. ^Elizabeth, b. in 1813, m. Phineas Olcott of Massa- 
chusetts. 

8. ^Louisa, b. 

9. ^Loretta. 

«EVERT D., b. July 3, 1809, d. Aug. 26, 1902, m. Nov. 25, 1833, 
Catherine P., daughter of Robert and Sarah (Ferris) Morrell, 
b. May 2, 1814, d. in 1905, and had: 

1. 'Thirza M., b. Oct. 8, 1834, d. Nov. 6, 1842. 

2. 'Sarah E., b. May 30, 1837, m. Nov. 17, 1858, George 
S. Ray, b. Aug. 7, 1835, and had: '"Charles and 
'"AnnaL. 

3. 'Mary Jane, b. Sept. 28, 1839, d. Nov. 6, 1842. 

4. 'Catharine L., b. Nov. 21, 1841, m. July 4, 1864, John 
H. Ray, b. Feb. 8, 1842, and had: '"John E., '"^Frank 
W., '"Blanche L., and '"George A. 

5. 'Mary L., b. May 24, 1844, m. March 13, 1864, Norval 
Green, b. June 16, 1842, and had: '"William Augustus 
and '"Edward L. 

6. 'Amos C, b. May 22, 1846, d. July 5, 1848. 

7. 'Emily A., b. Aug. 8, 1848, d. Nov. 20, 1849. 

8. 'Martha W., b. Oct. 12, 1850, m. Nov. 17, 1869, Oliver 
P. Knapp, b. June 27, 1845, and had: '"Carrie A., 
'"Bertha A., and '"George E. 

9. 'Amos W., b. Oct. 12, 1853, m. Sept. 17, 1879, Hattie M., 
daughter of Stephen A. Stoothofif, b. Sept. 10, 1859, and 
had: '"Mabel R., who m. George S. Bailey of Auburn, 
N.Y. 

There is not very much on the Greenwich Town Records, 
or the church records, concerning the Avery family, but 
what little there is seems to be somewhat at variance with 
the foregoing. It is as follows: 

Edward Avery of East Chester, New York (formerly of 
Long Island), on the fourteenth day of March, 1710, bought 
land at Horseneck. His wife's name was Sarah. 

Peter Avery m. Rachel, dau. of Abraham Hays, b. Jan. 
I3> 1738. His children were : 

1. Hannah,b. July 13, 1760. 

2. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 6, 1761, m. Nov. 5, 1788, Aaron 

Denton, and had Everett, b. Feb. 14, 1789. 

3. John, b. Nov. 11, 1763. 

4. Rachel, b. Oct. 21, 1765. 

5. Peter, b. Oct. 19, 1768. 

6. Gertrude, b. Aug. 11, 1770. 

7. Ira, b. July 21, 1772, m. July 5, 1795, Mary Wilson. 

8. Abraham, b. July 5, 1774. 
9- Reuben, b. March i, 1776. 

10. Walter, b. Jan. 4, 1779, d. Dec. 8, 1842, m. Clarissa, 



Banks Family 495 

daughter of Ephraim Peck, d. May 19, 1857, age seventy- 
six years and eight days. 
II. Israel Knapp, b. Aug. 30, 1782, m. March i, 1804, Sally 
Hobby; she d. June 5, 18 14, age twenty-seven years; 
m. 2d, Marilda , and had by his ist wife: 

1. Mary E., b. Oct. 30, 1804. 

2. Emeline, b. June 31, 1807. 

3. Israel Knapp, b. March 2, 1809. 

4. Matilda, b. Aug. 18, 181 1. 

5. Sally Hobby, b. Sept. 11, 1813. 
Other children by his 2d wife. 

BANKS FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance 
of Edwin C. Banks of Port Chester, New York. 

''John Banks, from County York, England, probably 
came to America in the ship Mary and John about 1630, and 
was one of the first settlers at Windsor, Connecticut, where 
he was town clerk, but soon after removed to Fairfield, Con- 
necticut, where he died in 1685. He owned considerable 
land in the Town of Greenwich and in the Town of Rye, and 
at one time represented both of these towns in the Con- 
necticut General Assembly. The Town of Rye was originally 
part of the Colony of Connecticut. On the thirteenth day 
of February, 1676, the Town of Greenwich confirmed the 
grant of land along the Byram River previously made to 
John Banks of Fairfield, and also granted him Calves Island. 
He married first a daughter of Charles Taintor of Wethers- 
field ; second, Mary, daughter of Thomas Fitch, and widow of 
Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield. His will is dated December 
12, 1684, probated February 4, 1685. His widow Mary sur- 
vived him, children all by his first wife. Thomas Sherwood 
died in 1655. 

'John Banks, b. in England about 1608, d. in Fairfield, 
Connecticut, in 1685, m. ist, in Windsor, about 1640, a 
daughter of Charles Taintor; 2d, in Fairfield, about 1657, 
Mary, dau. of Thomas Fitch, and widow of Thomas 
Sherwood, she d. in 1694, and had: 

I. ^JOHN, b. about 1641, at Windsor, d. at Greenwich, July 
14, 1699, m. April 3, 1672, Abigail, dau. of Thomas 
Lyon of Rye, who survived him, and had: 
I. ^Joseph, b. in 1673, d. in 1712, m. Hannah, 

who after his death m. John Lyon, and had: 



496 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



3. 



1. '♦Hannah, b. Oct. 2-], 1704, m. July 20, 1726, 
George Gorham of Stamford. 

2. "Abigail, b. Jan. 23, 1706. 

3. "Joseph, Captain, b. Jan. 14, 1708, d. in 1760, 

m. Martha , who survived him, and had: 

I . ^Joseph, b. about 1 750, m. Elizabeth Lyon, 

b. about 1740, d. about 1820, and had: 

1. ^Joseph, b. April 20, 1771, d. July 16, 
1842, m. Aug. II, 1792, Elizabeth, 
daughter of Isaac Anderson, b. 1770, 
d. March 25, 1856. 

2. ^Martha, b. about 1773, m. ist , 

2d, Seymour. 

^EHzabeth, b. Sept. 14, 1779, d. Nov. 
18, 1842, m. Aug. 22, 1804, John, son 
of Obadiah Banks, b. 1774, d. April 

26, 1842. 

4. ^Mary, b. about 1781, m. William 
Conklin. 

5. <*William W., b. in 1786, m. ist, 
Hannah Peck, m. 2d, Elizabeth 
Dailey, and had 'William W., 'Abra- 
ham, and 'Hannah E. 

6. ^Abraham, b. Nov. 16, 1791, d. Sept. 
13, 1822, m. Elizabeth, daughter of 
Daniel Lyon, and had 'Daniel, 'Jo- 
seph, and 'Mary. 

sjames, b. Feb. 16, 1752, d. May 29, 1844, 
m. Sarah Lyon, b. Dec. 16, 1751, d. Dec. 
23, 1817, and had: 
I. ^Hannah, b. July 10, 1773, d. June 29, 

1804, m. Samuel Pine. 

^WilHam, b. April 15, 1775, d. Aug., 

1777. 

^Elizabeth, b. Jan. 25, 1777, d. March 

27, 1869, m. Nathaniel Reynolds, b. 
Aug. 7, 1772, d. April 4, 1838. 
<^Mary, b. April 5, 1779, d. Oct., 1781 . 
^Sarah, b. March 2, 1781, d. May, 
1781. 

^Catharine, b. Jan. 20, 1783, d. Nov. 
29, 1863, m. Lockwood Reynolds. 
^Anne, b. July 3, 1785, d. Aug. 31, 
1823, m. Daniel Coley. 
^Phebe, b. Aug. 31, 1787, d. Jan., 

1793. 

^Jacob, b. Jan. 12, 1790, d. Nov., 
1794. 
sjohn, b. Aug. 19, 1755, m. Abigail, 



2. 



3- 



Banks Family 497 

dau. of Joseph and Joanna Brundage, 
b. Nov. 9, 1755, removed to Bedford, N. 
Y., and had: 

1. ^Elizabeth, b. March 24, 1776, m. 

Hawley. 

2. ^Joseph, b. April 6, 1778, unm., d. 
young. 

3. ^James, b. March 3, 1780, m. Eliza- 
beth Olmstead. 

4. '^John, b. March 20, 1782, d. Feb. 26, 
1 861, m. April 18, 18 14, Sophia 
Marshall, d. Oct. 12, i860. 

5. ^Margaret, b. March 14, 1785, m. 
Nathan C. Miller. 

6. ^Augustine, b. Oct. 6, 1789, m. April 
18, 1814, Chloe Olmstead, b. Jan. 31, 
1790. 

7. ^Abigail, b. March 26, 1792, d. April 
6, 1794. 

4. ^Abigail, b. about 1756. 

5. sMary, b. about 1758. 

6. ^Martha, b. about 1760, m. James Lyon, 
b. Oct. 19, 1761, d. April 2, 1850. 

4. '•Mary, b. Jan. 2'], 1710. 

^Daniel, b. about 1675, d. in 1766, m. Lydia , 

and had : 

1. ''Abigail, b. July 23, 1721, m. May 17, 1741, 
Benjamin Treen. 

2. ''Daniel, b. Jan. 23, 1723, d. July 25, 1759, m. 
Aug. 14, 1746, Rachel, dau. of John and 
Hannah (Mead) Hobby, and had: 

1. ^Daniel, b. Dec. i, 1747, d. in 1814, m. 
Mary, dau. of James Lyon. No children. ■' 

2. S3arah, b. Sept. 20, 1749. 

3. sDavid, b. May 27, 1751, d. in 1830, m. 
Mary Mesnard, and had: 

I. ^Edmund, b. April 7, 1774, d. March 

4, 1853, m. April 6, 1803, Deborah 

Holmes, b. March 15, 1771, d. Oct. 

25, 1845, and had: 

I. 7Mark, b. Nov. 8, 1804, d. 

June 5, 1898, m. Sarah, dau. 

of Joseph and Naomi (Tut- 

tle) Neal, b. June 11, 1807, 

d. June 20, 1879, and had: 

^Edmund, ^WilHam H., «Estelle, 

^Adelaide, ^Joseph E., ^John 

T., * Warren, ^Caroline H., and 

^Jessie. 



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2. 

3- 
4- 

5- 



^Sarah C, b. Sept. i6, 1775, m. John 
Horton. 

^Rachel, b. Feb. 10, 1777, unm. 
^Daniel, b. Jan. 16, 1779, d. in 1850, 
m. Christine Brush. 

^Theodora, b. April 4, 1781, m. 

Brewer. 
6. ^Mary, b. Aug. 18, 1785, m. Bates 
Holmes. 

4. ^Charity, b. March 9, 1753. 

5. ^Samuel, b. May 27, 1755, removed to 
Long Island. 

6. sLydia, b. Aug. 9, 1757. 

3. ^obadiah, h. Aug. 21, 1724, d. in 1784, m. 
Sept. 12, 1755, Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel and 

Rebecca (Butler) Smith, and had: 

1. sQbadiah, b. Aug. 21, 1757, m. Sarah 
Hobby, and had: 

1. ^WilHam A., b. Jan., 1801, m. Ann 
Eliza Price, and had: ^Albert, ^Sarah, 
■'Ann EHza, '^WilHam O., ''Ann 
Amelia, ^Obadiah, ''Ann Florence, 
and ^Louisa O. 

2. ^Eliza, b. Sept. 4, 1804. 

2. sjoshua, b. Feb. 23, 1759, d. , m. Oct. 
24, 1787, Ruth Smith. 

3. spaniel, b. Dec. 23, 1760. 
'" 4. ^Elizabeth, b. about 1762. 

5. ^Mary, b. about 1764. 

6. ^Abigail, b. about 1767. 

7. •^Rebecca, b. about 1770. 

8. 5John, b. in 1774, d. April 26, 1842, m. 
Aug. 22, 1804, EHzabeth, dau. of Joseph 
Banks, son of Captain Joseph Banks, b. 
Sept. 14, 1779, d. Nov. 18, 1842, and had: 
I. ^Burtis, b. March i, 1805, m. Re- 
becca Piatt. 

^Martha, b. Oct. 24, 1807, m. Elias 

Lyon. 

^Ophelia A., b. Sept., 1809, m. John 

R. Grigg. 

4. ^Marietta, b. Sept., 1809, unm. 

5. ^Elizabeth, b. May 26, 181 1, m. John 
B. Martling. 

9. sggnjamin, b. about 1777. 

4. "Lydia, b. July 2, 1726, m. Feb. 16, 1754, 
Daniel Smith, Jr. 

5. ''Ruth, b. June 10, 1730, m. John Holmes. 

3. ^Samuel, b. about 1677, settled at North Castle, N. 



Banks Family 499 

Y., d. in 1742, m. ist , m. 2d, before 

Oct. 17, 1733, Rebecca, widow of Thomas Lyon, 
and dau. of Thomas and Rebecca Hobby, and had 
by his I St wife: 

1. "Samuel, b. , d. in 1784, m. Deborah 
and had : 

1. sjames, b. 

2. ssamuel, b. , m. Deborah , and 

had: 

1. ^James, b. in 1772, d. March 24, 1846, 

m. Mary , b. in 1783, d. Dec. 

28, 1852. 

2. ^Samuel, b. about 1774, m. Rachel 

, b. in 1772, d. March 20, 

1830. 

3. ^Betty, b. 

4. ^Mary Ann, b. 

3. sVashti, b. 

2. "John, b. about 1729, d. after 1772, m. Deborah, 
dau. of Joseph Newman, and had : 

I. sjohn, b. in 1750, d. March 26, 1807, m. 
June, 1771, EHzabeth Reynolds, d. Feb. 
12, 1 812, age sixty-seven years, and had: 
I. ' ^Lydia, b. in 1773, m. Josiah Hobby. 

2. ^Joseph, b. Aug. 15, 1775. m. Jan. 25, 
1810, Lavinia Mead, she d. Jan. 16, 

1857- 

3. ^EHzabeth, b. in 1777, m. John Louns- 

bury. 
4 6john, b. June 10, 1781, d. Sept. 6, 
1852, m. May 10, 1803, Abigail 
Stebbins. 

5. ^Deborah, b. in 1784, m. ist, 

Hobby, m. 2nd, Benedict. 

6. ^Sarah, b. in 1787, m. Jerry Hall. 

7. ^Edward, b. April 4, 1790. m. Nov. 3, 

1 814, Clarissa Hoyt. 

8. ^Jeremiah, b. Dec. 4, I793, m. Han- 
nah Mead. 

9. ^Anna, unm., d. Dec. 10, 1867. 

2. sDeborah, b. Nov. 30, 1752, m. Silas 
Sutherland. 

1 sHannah, b. Nov. 23, 1753. d. June 22, 
1824, m. June, 1771. Daniel Ferris. 

4 ssamuel, b. April 18, 1755. d. June 24, 
1826, m. April 9, 1778, Charity Lyon, b. 
Sept. 28, 1760, d. June 24, 1826, at Barn- 
bridge, N. Y., and had: 
I. 6Mary, b. Jan. 23, 1779- 



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^Samuel, b. in 1781. 
^William, b. Sept. 27, 1783. 
^Abby, b. in 1784. 
^Sally, b. Aug. 9, 1786. 
^Parmelia, b. in 1789. 

5. sjoseph, b. March 22, 1758, d. in Sugar 
House Prison in the Revolutionary War. 

6. ^Jonathan, b. Aug. 29, 1759, d. April 15, 
181 1, m. Ann Murphy, d. March 3, 1843, 
age eighty-one, and had: 
I. ^Levi, b. 

^Clarissa, b. 
^Benjamin, b. 
^Esther, b. 
^Sarah, b. 

^John, b. Sept. 13, 1792, d. Oct. 
18, 1839, rn. July 6, 1814, Lydia 
Finch, after his death she m. Ed- 
win Lawrence, and had: ^Jonathan, 
^EHzabeth A., ^Esther O., ^Rufus 
L., ^Clarissa N., ^Susan P., ^William 
E., 'Margaret P., '^Mary Jane, and 
'James N. 
sSarah, b. March 10, 1761, m. Joshua 
Briggs. 

^Diadamia, b. Dec. 17, 1762, m. Moses 
Lyon, b. about 1758, and removed to 
Delaware County, N. Y. 
^Martha, b. July 2, 1764, d. July 21, 1849, 
m. May 31, 1785, James Lyon, b. Oct. 19, 
1 761, d. April 2, 1850. 
^Rachel, b. March 30, 1768, m. Jonathan 
Miller. 

^Benjamin, b. Feb. 15, 1770, d. July 31, 
1843, m. Kezia Miller, b. in 1771, d. Jan. 
4, i860, and had: ^Ebenezer, ^Polly, 
^Rachel, ^Deborah, ^Betsy, ^Abby, 
^Lydia, ^Benjamin, and ^Ezra. 
^Alanson, b. in 1772, m. Mary Avery, 
removed to Delaware County, N. Y., 
and had: ''John, ^Margaret, ^Deborah, 
and ^Hannah. 

3. ''Hannah, b. about 1731, m. before 1742, 

Finch. 

4. ''Jemima, b. 

5. '•Mary Ann, b. 

6. '♦Rosanna, b. 

7. ''Susannah, b. 



4. ^Daughter, m. 



Brown. 



Belts Family 501 

5. ^John, b. about 1681, m. and had "John and "Icha- 
bold (?). 

6. ^Mary, b. about 1683. 

2. ^JOSEPH, b. about 1643, d. in 1682, unm. 
L- 3. "SAMUEL, b. about 1645, hved at Fairfield, d. in 
1719. 

4. "OBADiAH, b. about 1647, d. in 1691, unm. 

5. "BENJAMIN, b. about 1649, d. in 1692, at Fairfield, m. 
Jan. 29, 1679, Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Lyon, and 
after his death she m. WilHam Roberson about 1693, 
children : 

1. ^Benjamin, b. Oct. 30, 1679. 

2. ^Elizabeth, b. Nov. 26, 1683. 

3. ^Abigail, b. in 1687. 

4. ^Joseph, b. in 1689. 

6. "SUSANNAH, b. about 1651 , m. Jonathan Sturges, and had 
a son. ^Jonathan. 

7. "HANNAH, b. about 1654, m. Daniel Burr, and had a son, 
^Daniel. 

8. "MARY, b. about 1655, m. Taylor. 

BETTS FAMILY. 

Reference, Thomas Belts of Guilford and Norwalk, by Fred- 
erick H, Betts, published in iJ 



'Thomas Betts, bom in Hertfordshire, England, in 
161 8, came to New England as early as 1639, and first settled 

at Guilford, Connecticut, where he married Mary , 

sold out in November, 1657, and removed to Milford, where 
they remained until 1660. In 1660, Thomas Betts pur- 
chased land at Norwalk, Connecticut, to which place he had 
removed, where he died in 1688, and left him surviving, the 
following children : 

1. "Mary, b. in Guilford in 1646, m. Dec. 10, 1664, John, 
son of Richard Raymond. 

2. "THOMAS, b. in Guilford in 1650, d. in 1717. 

3. "Hannah, b. in Guilford, Nov. 22, 1652, d. before 1688. 

4. "John, b. in Guilford, June 20, 1655, d. about 1730, m. 
Sarah . 

5. "Stephen, b. in Guilford, Oct. 4, 1657, d. before 1672, 

6. "Daniel, b. in Guilford, Oct. 4, 1657, d. before 1730. 

7. "Samuel, b. in Milford, April 4, 1660. 

8. "James, b. in Norwalk in 1663, d. July 6, 1753. 

9. "Sarah, b. in Norwalk about 1666, m. March 5, 1696, 
Joseph St. John. 



502 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

^THOMAS, b. in Guilford in 1650, d. in 1717, m. Jan. 13, 1680, 
Sarah, dau. of Matthew Mervin, Jr., and had: 

1. ^Thomas, b. Jan. 17, 1681. 

2. ^JOHN, b. July 7, 1684. 

3. ^Sarah, b. Jan. 21, 1687. 

4. ^Matthew, b. Jan. 10, 1692. 

5. ^Mary, b. March 31, 1694. 

6. ^Elizabeth, b. Oct. 23, 1699, m. Thomas Seymour. 
3jOHN, b. July 7, 1684, d. June 7, 1745, m. April 13, 1708, Hannah, 

dau. and sole heir at law of John Burwell of Greenwich, by 
whom he had: 

1. ■*John, b. July 27, 1711. 

2. ''Burwell, b. April 14, 1715. 

3. ■'Ruah, b. April 17, 1716, d. before 1744. 

4. ''Joseph, b. March 29, 1717. 

5. ""SILAS, b. Dec. 6, 1718, lived at Cos Cob, Conn. 

6. "Abraham, b. about 1720, d. young. 

7. ""Sarah, b. Aug., 1721. 

8. "Hannah, b. about 1723, d. young. 

9. ''Timothy, b. May, 1728, no issue. 
10. "Gideon, b. June 8, 1730. 

"•siLAS, b. Dec. 6, 1718, d. , m. Jan. 15, 1743, Elizabeth, 

dau. of Gershom Lockwood, d. April 29, 1759, and had: 

1. ^Elizabeth, b. Dec. 6, 1744, d. Jan. 5, 1745. 

2. ^Elizabeth, b. May 26, 1746. 

3. ^Hannah, b. Feb. 16, 1748, d. Sept. 10, 1758. 

4. ^Lucy, b. Sept. i, 1752. 

5. ^siLAs, b. Sept. I, 1752. 

6. ^Aaron, b. Jan. 22, 1755, d. April i, 1755. 

^siLAS, b. Sept. I, 1752, d. Sept., 1789, m. Sarah , and had: 

1. ^Anne, who m. Davis. 

2. ^Hannah, b. 

3. ^Frederick, b. 1776, m. Sept. 27, 1795, Hannah Sackett, 
and had : 

1. '^Henrietta, b. March 27, 1796, m. John M. Sher- 
wood. 

2. ■'CaroHne, b. Sept. 4, 1797, d. March 2, 1843, m. 
Feb. 14, 1825, Gideon Ferris. 

3. ■'Daniel, b. March 29, 1799, m. Nancy Newman. 

4. ■'Mary, b. Nov. 9, 1800, m. Thomas Wood. 

5. ''Hannah, b. Oct. 29, 1802, m. Nathaniel Hubbard. 

6. 'Philer, b. Nov. 10, 1804, m. Hannah Marshall. 

4. ^Philer, d. Jan., 1795, unm. 

5. ^Ehzabeth, d. in 1789. 

6. ^Sarah, b. Aug. 23, 1776, m. ist, Michael Conrey, m. 2d, 
Abraham Quick. 

7. ^siLAs, b. , m. Hannah Betts, a cousin. After 
his death she m. Thomas Hitchcock. 

8. ''Mary, b. May 22, 1780. 



Brown Family 5^3 

^siLAS, b. , m. his cousin, Hannah Betts, who after 

his death m. Thomas Hitchcock. Silas and Hannah had 
only one child: 

I. ^-Walter, b. Sept. 27, 1789, lost at sea in 1828, m. Har- 
riet Morrell, b. April 14, 1796, d. Oct., 1882, and had: 

1. ^Emily, b. June 13, 1815, d. July 3, 1902. 

2. ^Silas, b. Feb. 13, 1817, d. Sept. 3, 1882. 

3. ^Anne, b. Feb. 28, 1819, d. Jan. 5, 1890, issue. 

4. William Willis, b. Dec. 28, 1822, d. March 8, 1910, 
m. May 12, 1847, Mary A. Marshall, d. March 21, 
1897, and had: 

1. ^silas H., b. March 4, 1848, m. Feb. 10, 1869, 
Lizzie Williams. 

2. ''George L., b. Dec. 18, 1849, m. Feb. 10, 1869, 
Elsee E. Lawrence, and had : * "George L., "Ed- 
ward S., "William W., "Charles M., "Harry 
F., "Carroll S., "Leland P., and "WillardB. 

3. 'Mary W., b. Nov. 2, 1851, d. Feb. i, 1865. 

4. 'Hannah H., b. Oct. 8, 1853, m. WilHam F. 
Whiting. 

5. 'Frederick W., b. Oct. 29, 1855, m. Laura 
McChesney. 

6. 'Leonard J., b. Sept. 8, 1857, m. Henriette 
Blake. 

BROWN FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance of 

Robert B. Miller, Editor of the Lyon Memorial, 

New York Families, published in 1907. 

There has been a general mix-up in the Brown family, so 
far as the family in the Town of Greenwich and its vicinity is 

concerned. at t^ l 

Bolton, in his History of Westchester County, New York, 
and Baird follows him in his History of the Town of Rye, New 
York, states that Thomas Brown of Concord, Massachusetts, 
settled in Rye, but an examination of the Descendants of 
Thomas Brown of Concord, published in 1901, by Goodwin 
Brown, shows that Thomas Brown of Concord was never m 
Westchester County, New York, nor were any of his children. 
The Thomas Brown and the Hackaliah Brown who settled 
in the Town of Rye, New York, in 1665 were the sons of 
Peter Brown of the New Haven Colony. 

Peter Brown* was one of the Governor Theophilus Eaton 

♦Records of the New Haven Colony. 



504 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

and Rev. John Davenport Company, that made a settle- 
ment at New Haven in the spring of 1638. This company 
was partly from the City of London, where Rev. John 
Davenport had been a celebrated minister, and partly from 
the counties of York, Hertford, Kent, Surry and Sussex, and 
sailed from London, England, in the ship Hector, which 
arrived at Boston on the twenty-sixth day of June, 1637. 
Peter Brown signed the compact appertaining to the govern- 
ment of the New Haven Colony, in 1639. He sold out in 
1647, and removed to Stamford, Connecticut,* where his 
wife, Elizabeth, died Sept. 21, 1657, and his son, Ebenezer, 
Aug. 19, 1658. He married again at Stamford, May 25, 
1658, Unity, widow of Clement Buxton, and died there Aug. 
22, 1658. His widow afterwards married, March 9, 1659, 
Nicholas Knapp. 

^Peter Brown, b. in England, about 1610, settled in New 
Haven in 1638, removed to Stamford about 1647, where he 

d. Aug. 22, 1658, m. 1st, Elizabeth , b. in England, 

about 1612, d. at Stamford, Sept. 21, 1657, m. 2d, May 25, 
1658, Unity, widow of Clement Buxton, children all by his 
1st wife: ^Thomas, ^Hackaliah, 'Mercy, ^Elizabeth, 'Ebe- 
nezer and 'Deliverance. 

1. ^Thomas, b. at New Haven, about 1642, went with his 
father to Stamford, settled in Rye, N. Y., in 1665, 
where he d. in 1694, no record of any children. 

2. 'Hackaliah, b. at New Haven, in 1645, went with his 
father to Stamford, settled in Rye, N. Y,, in 1665, 
where he d. in 1720, m. probably Mary, dau, of John 
Hoit of Stamford and Rye, and had : 

I. ^Peter, b. about 1670, d. Jan. 11, 1733, will in New 
York County, m. Martha, dau. of Peter Disbrow, 
and had : 

1. ''Sarah, b. about 1692, m. before 1714, Francis 
Purdy, Jr. 

2. '•Rebecca, b. about 1694, m. Stephen Hunt. 

3. ''Elizabeth, b. about 1696, unm. 

4. ''Ebenezer, b. , d. in 1783, will in 
New York County, m. , and had: 
I. ^Ebenezer, b. , d. in 1790, m. 

Susannah, dau. of Daniel Lewis, and had: 
^Sarah and ^Mary. 

5. "Peter, b. , d. in 1739, m. a dau. of 
Walter and Rebecca Butler, and had: 

I . sPeter, b. 

* Huntington's History of Stamford. 



Brown Family 505 

2. ^Rebecca, b. , m. John Purdy. 

3. ssarah, b., m. Thomas Sutton. 

6. ■^Hannah, b. about 1698, m. Dec. 12, 171 7, 
Ebenezer Mead, b. Oct. 25, 1692. 

7. ''Nehemiah, b., d. in 1775, m. Elizabeth , 

and had : 

1. ^Martha, b. , m. Nathaniel Mead, 
b. March 7, 1746, d. Feb. 2, 1814. 

2. ^Elizabeth, b. , m. July 17, 1778, 
Thomas Randle. 

8. ''Caleb, b. , d. before 1731, no issue. 

9. '♦Nathaniel, b. Feb. 22, 1732, d. April 10, 1801, 

m. Tamazen , b. 1731, d. May 13, 1823, 

and had: 

1. ^Nathaniel, b. in 1767, d. Dec. 14, 1844, 
m. Anne Merritt. 

2. 5]X[ehemiah, b. Dec, 1774, d. Nov. i, 1855, 
m. ist, Mary Seymour, m. 2d, Parmelia 
Sanford. 

3. sgai-ah, b. , m, Reynolds. 

4. ^Hannah, b. , m. Taylor. 

2. ^Thomas, b. about 1677, d- ^^ 1766, will in New 
York County, no issue. 

3. ^Mary, b. about 1680, m. Absalom Brundage, and 
had: ^Nehemiah, ''Gilbert, ''Hackaliah, ''Zebediah, 
"Sarah, "Abigail, and "Mary. 

4. ^Benjamin, b. about 1685, d. in 1767, will in New 
York County, m. , and had: 

1. "Benjamin, b. about 1724. 

2. "Daniel, b. about 1727, d. Aug. 15, 1805. 

3. "William, b. about 1732, d. , m. Mary, 
dau. of Roger Purdy. 

4. "Joseph, b. about 1734, d. in 1821, m. Mary 

• , and had: ^Hester, ^Elizabeth, ^Ben- 

jamin, ^Isaac, ^Mehitable, ^Mead, ^Joseph, 
^Samuel, and ^Walter. 

5. ^Anne, b. about 1690, d. , m. Daniel Purdy. 

6. ^HackaHah, Major, b. about 1695, d. in 1780, will 
in New York County, m. Ann Kniffen, and had: 

1. "Hackaliah, of Somers, N. Y., b. Aug. 27, 
1727, d. May 22, 1813, m, Abigail, dau. of 
Ezekiel Halsted, b. Aug. 20, 1734, d. Aug. 11, 
1807, and had: ^Ann, ^Nathan, ^Mary, ^Aner, 
^Abigail, ^Susannah, ^Stephen, ^Ester, ^Sarah, 
and sLewis. 

2. "Gilbert, b. about 1730, d. young. 

3. "Nathan, b. about 1732, d. in 1764, m. Eliza- 
beth Kniffen, and had: ^Gilbert, ^Margaret, 
and sLevina. 



5o6 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



4. ''Christopher, b. about 1735, d. Aug. i, 1785, 

m. Lucy , and had: •''Isaac, ^Phebe, 

5 Aaron, and ^Frederick. 

5. ''David, b. about 1737, d. in 1773, m. Sept. 9, 
1762, Esther, dau. of Rev. James Wetmore, 
after his d. she m. Jesse Hunt. 

6. ''Thomas, b. about 1739, d. April 6, 1825, m. 
Jane Seaman, b. Feb. i, 1742, d. April 8, 1813, 
and had several children. 

7. "Josiah, b. about 1742, d. Aug. 6, 1789, m. 
Deborah Brundage, b. in 1754, d. Jan. 18, 
1830, and had one son, and three daughters. 

8. ''Isaac, b. about 1746, d. Jan. 29, 1800, unm. 

3. ^Mercy, b. about 1647. 

4. ^Elizabeth, b. about 1649, m. John Purdy. 

5. ^Ebenezer, b. about 1653, d. Aug. 19, 1658. 

6. ^Deliverance, b. about 1656, owned land in Rye, N. Y., 
in 1678, also owned land in Greenwich, d. about 1727, 
m. , and had : 

1. ^Deliverance, b. , no further record obtainable. 

2. ^Samuel, b. April 15, 1689, lived in Greenwich, d. in 
Rye, about 1750, m. Hannah Rundle, b. July 16, 
1690, and had: 

1. ''Hannah, b. March 20, 1721, m. Caleb Purdy. 

2. ''Samuel, b. July 16, 1722, d. Aug. 5, 181 1, m. 
Feb. 16, 1757, Amy, dau. of John Merritt, 
b. April 24, 1730, d. Dec. 17, 1805, and had: 

^Samuel, b. Nov. 21, 1757, m. Dec. 31, 
1778, Mary Willson. 

sjohn, b. Oct. 15, 1759, m. EHzabeth, 
dau. of James Willis of White Plains. 
^Mary, b. Aug. 20, 1761, d. Feb. 25, 1830, 
m. Moses Crooker. 

^Hannah, b. Sept. 25, 1763, d. July 26, 
1845, m. Daniel Hawxhurst. 
^Nehemiah, b. Jan. 20, 1766, d. Dec. 4, 
1847, m. Anne, dau. of William Anderson. 
^Merritt, b. Jan. 2"], 1768, d. Oct. 12, 1851, 
m. Hannah Pine. 

3. ''Elizabeth, b. Nov. 27, 1724, m. James Sutton. 

4. ''Nehemiah, b. June 7, 1726, of Greenwich, d. 
May I, 1810, m. Sophia, dau. of Roger and 
Charlotte (Strang) Park, d. Oct., 1781, and 
had: ^Hannah, ^Sophia, sMajor,^ Nehemiah, 
^EHzabeth, ^Charlotte, ^Samuel, and spark.' 
(For children of Major Brown, see Mead 
Genealogy , page 445.) 

5. '•Eunice, b. Nov. 7, 1728, m. Joseph Willson. 

6. ''Rachel, b. Sept. 4, 1731, m. Jonathan Kniffen. 



Brown Family 507 

7. "Roger, b. Dec. 25, 1733, removed to Salem, 
N. Y. 

8. ''Mary, b. June 10, 1737, d. young. 

9. ''Andrew, b. Feb. 10, 1739, removed to Cort- 
landt Manor. 

3. ^Zebediah, b. , m. , and had: 

I. ''Zebediah, b. , and perhaps others. 

4. ^Rachel, b. , m. June 20, 1716, Benjamin 
Mead. 

5. ^Jonathan, b. about 1706, was one of the proprie- 
tors of the New York and Boston Stage Line, 
removed to Hartford, Conn., where he d. June 15, 
1768, buried in Rye, N. Y., m. July 10, 1726, 
Deborah, dau. of Samuel Mead, and had: 

1. ''Jonathan, b. , m. before 1755, Phebe, 
dau. of Joseph Kniffen. 

2. ''Zebediah, b. , and perhaps others. 

Francis Brown was also one of the New Haven 
Company, and was probably a brother of Peter Brown. 
Francis Brown* signed the compact appertaining to the 
government of the New Haven Colony in 1639. After the 
death of his wife, Lydia, he removed to Stamford, Connecti- 
cut, was there in 1657, ^^^ constable in 1663.! He married 
again at Stamford, Oct. 17, 1657, Martha, widow of John 
Chapman, by whom he had one child, Joseph, to whom he 
gave land in 1683. By his first wife he probably had Eleazer 
and John, and perhaps others. His son, Joseph, removed to 
Rye, New York, and after the third marriage of bis father, 
returned to Stamford and had a large family. 

Francis Brown after the death of his second wife removed 
to Rye, about 1683, and married for his third wife, Judith, 
dau. of John Budd, and widow of John Ogden. He bought 
land in Rye in 1686, and died there in 1687, leaving no 
children by his third wife. 

'Francis Brown, born in England about 1607, settled in 
New Haven in 1638, removed to Stamford, Connecticut, 
about 1656, died in Rye, N. Y., in 1687, m. ist, Lydia, b. in 
England about 1609, d. at New Haven about 1655, m. 2d, 
at Stamford, Oct. 17, 1657, Martha, widow of John Chap- 
man, d. about 1680, m. 3d, at Rye, Judith, dau. of John 
Budd, and widow of John Ogden. 

Children by his first wife were (perhaps others) : 

* Records of the New Haven Colony, 
t Huntington's History of Stamford. 



5o8 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 



1. ^Eleazer, b. about 1633, probably remained in New 
Haven, m. Sarah, daughter of Sarah Wilson, some 
times called Buckley. 

2. ^John, b. about 1635, was sort of a rover, m. but 
deserted his wife and ran away. 

By 2d wife: 

3. ^Joseph, b. in 1658, d. Jan. 28, 1738, at Stamford, m. in 
1685, Mary , d. July 3, 1744, and had: 

1. ^Joseph, b. Dec. 24, 1686, d. before 1738, m. ist, 
April 21, 1720, EHzabeth Buxton, d. March 27, 
1725, m. 2d, Jan. 2, 1726, Mary Hait, d. Aug. 2, 
1728, m. 3d, Jan. 16, 1729, Ruth Scofield, after 
his death she m. Benjamin Close of Greenwich. 
Children : 

1. '^Joseph, b. July 21, 1722, d. May 3, 1730, m. 
Jan. 16, 1745, Rebecca Skelding, and had 
sPeter, ^Squire, ^Joseph, ^Enos, ^Rebecca, 
^Elizabeth, ^Mary, ^Sarah, and ^Martha. 

2. '' David, b. Jan. 5, 1723, d. in 1744, no children. 

3. 4 Martha, b. Oct. 22, 1726. 

4. '' Beny, b. July 19, 1728. 

5. " Peter, b. March 27, 1730, d. in 1748. 

6. '' Eunice, b. 

7. "Joseph, b. 

2. 3 Francis, b. March 11, 1689, d. in 1754, m. ist, 
June 18, 1 7 13, Mercy Webb, m. 2d, Hannah 
, and had : 

1. "David, b. Aug. 22, 1714, m. Dec. 16, 1736, 
Sarah Weed, and had: 

1. 5 Abigail, b. Dec. 5, 1738. 

2. ^ Prudence, b. Aug. 22, 1741. 

3. s David, b. June 22, 1744. 

2. " Francis, b. 

3. "Joseph, b. 

4. " Sylvanus, b. 

5. " Mercy, b. 

6. " Mary, b. 

7. " Martha, b. 

3. 3 Hannah, b. Sept. 21, 1692. 

4. 3 Nathaniel, b. June 16, 1696, m. April 20, 1725, 
Anna Brush, and had: 

1. "Jacob, b. March 2, 1726. 

2. " Nathaniel, b. April i, 1728, 

3. "John, b. Jan. 25, 1730. 

4. " Jemima, b. Aug. 24, 1739. 

5. " Keziah, b. Aug. 24, 1739. 

6. "Anna, b. Jan. 17, 1745. 

5. 3 Nathan, b. Oct. 29, 1697, d. in 1747, m. Ruth 
, and had : 



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509 



1. '* Nathan, b. May 30, 1728. 

2. "Ananias, b. March 13, 1730, d. in 1758, no 
issue. 

3. '' Mary, b. June 6, 1732. 

4. '' Ruth, b. in 1734. 

5. "Sylvanus, b. March 2, 1736, d. in 1757, no 
issue. 

6. "^ Isaac, b. Aug. 20, 1739. 

7. "• Rebecca, b. about 1742. 

6. 3 Jonathan, b. May 14, 1701, d. April 14, 1747, m. 
Nov. 19, 1730, Mary Slason, d. in 1760, and had: 

1. ''Mary, b. Jan. 28, 1732, m. Thomas Water- 
bury. 

2. "* Jonathan, b. in 1733, d. young. 

3. ''Jonathan, b. July 15, 1735, d. in 1768, m. 
, wife d. before 1768, and had: 

1. 5 Jonathan, b. 

2. s WilHam, b. 

4. -» Elizabeth, b. June 30, 1738, d. young. 

5. ''Sarah, b. March 23, 1740, m. Eliphalet 
Kellogg. 

6. ''James, b. Jan. 2, 1744. 

7. '' Francis, b. in 1747. 

7. 3 David, b. March 22, 1703, d. Aug. 31, 171 1. 

8. ^ Mary, b. Oct. 2, 1705, m. Thomas Skelding. 

9. ^ Sarah, b. 1694, m. Josiah Blackman. 



Thomas Brown, b. about 1704, d. in 1767, who 
settled in the Town of Greenwich, about 1732, is not de- 
scended from either of the foregoing Brown families, unless 
he is descended from Francis Brown through the New 
Haven line. He married, about 1726, Susannah, dau. of 
Bezaleel Sherman of Stratford, Conn., b. in 1708, and had: 

1. Edmund, b. about 1727, removed to Greenwich with 
his father, m. , and had: 

1. Sarah, b. June 5, 1754. 

2. Abigail, b. Nov. 29, 1755. 

3. Mary, b. April 27, 1758. 

4. John, b. March 14, 1760. 

5. Hannah, b. Feb. 17, 1763. 

2. Bezaleel, b. about 1729, bought land in the Town of 
Greenwich in 1754, was an officer in the Revolutionary 
War, d. in 1805, m. Rachel Mead, and had Levi, 
Nathaniel, Josiah, Bezaleel, and Rachel, who m. Hardy 
Mead. 

3. Sarah, b. about 1731. 

4. Mary, b. Sept. 24, 1733. 



510 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

5. Ebenezer, b. March 10, 1736, m. Jan. 24, 1757, Deborah 
Hobby, Oct. 28, 1714, and had: 

1. Sarah, b. Nov. 7, 1757. 

2. EHzabeth, b. April 8, 1759. 

3. Charity, b. Dec. 11, 1760. 

6. Sherman, b. Jan. 17, 1741, m. Rachel Lockwood. 

7. Phebe, b. Oct., 1744. 

8. Thomas, b. Aug. 24, 1746, d. Oct. 2, 1783, m. Dec. 9, 

1780, Abigail, dau. of Frank Holly of Stamford, and 
had: 

1. Abigail, b. Oct. i, 1781. 

2. John, b. Nov. 9, 1782. 

9. John, b. July 10, I75i,d. June 13, 1752. 

BRUNDAGE FAMILY. 

'John Brundage, spelled also Brundish, Brondig, and 
Brondige, born in England about 1585, came to America 
about 1632, and after a temporary sojourn in Massa- 
chusetts, settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he 
died in 1639, leaving him surviving his widow, Rachel, and 
the following children: Mary, a daughter, John, Posthume, 
and Bertha. The widow sold out before May i, 1641, 
married Anthony Wilson, and removed to Fairfield, Con- 
necticut, where she died in 1642. 

1. ^ Mary, b. about 1616, m. Francis Purdy before 1642. 

2. ^ Daughter, d. before 1642. 

3. ^ John, b. about 1620, removed to Stamford, Con- 
necticut, and later to Rye, N. Y., where he d. in 1697, 
m. Hannah , and had: 

1. •^ John, b. , m. , and had: 

1. "John, b. 

2. ''Jonathan, b. , and perhaps others, 

2. ^Joseph, b. , m. Mary , and had: 

I. ''Joseph, b. , and perhaps others, 

3. ^ Daniel, b. , removed to White Plains, N. Y. 

4. ^ Joshua, b. , d. in 1727, m. , and had: 
I. ''Joshua, b. , m. Dec. 29, 1723, 

Hannah Coe, and had: 

1. 5 Hannah, b. 

2. 5 Joshua, b. Aug. 10, 1736. 

3. 5 Deborah, b. 

4. 5 Joseph, b. 

5. 5 Gilbert, b. , m. Anna, dau. of 
Rev. James Wetmore, and perhaps others. 

5- ^ Mary, b. 
6. 3 Hannah, b. 



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7. ^ Ruth, b. , m. Richard Scofield. 

4. ^ Posthume, b. about 1622. 

5. ^ Bertha, b. in 1625, m. Timothy Knapp of Rye, N. Y. 

BRUSH FAMILY. 

'Thomas Brush, bom probably in Nottinghamshire, 
England, about 1610, came to New England in 1638, with 
John Conklin. After a short stay at Salem, Massachu- 
setts, he removed to Southold, Long Island, where he owned 
land in 1653, but sold it in 1658, and removed to Huntington, 
Long Island, where he died in 1670. He married, Rebecca, 
daughter of John and Mary Conklin, and left him surviving, 
the following children : ^ Thomas, ^ Richard, ^Rebecca, and 
^ John. 

There is a tradition in the Greenwich branch of the 
family, that it is descended from Robert Bruce of Scotland, 
but this seems to be a fairy tale, as it is at variance with the 
records. 

1. ^Thomas, b. about 1640, d. April, 1699, will probated 
April 26, 1699, in which the following children were 
mentioned: •'Thomas, ^ Jacob, ^Timothy, ^Rebecca, 
3 Sarah, ^ Susannah, ^ Elizabeth, ^ Mary, and ^ Martha. 
His wife was Sarah Wickes. 

2. ^RICHARD, b. about 1643, m. in 1669, Johanna Corey, 
and had: 

1. ^ Hester, b. April 2, 1670, m. May 10, 1688, Edward 
Brush. 

2. ^ Richard, b. Sept. 28, 1673, removed to Greenwich, 
Conn., d. there in 1742, m., and had only one child: 
I. '•Richard, b. Dec. 19, 1727, who chose his 

uncle, Joseph Close, Jr., his guardian, in 1742. 

3. ^ Thomas, b. Jan. 13, 1675. 

4. ^ Mary, b. March 31, 1677. 

5. 3 BENJAMIN, b. Oct. 20, 1682, removed to Green- 
wich, Conn., bought land there in 1726, d. in 1759. 
He was the ancestor of the Greenwich Brush 
family. 

6. 5 Robert, b. June 30, 1685. 

3. " Rebecca, b. about 1645, m. Jan. 31, 1682, Rev. Jere- 
miah Hubbard. 

4. ^ John, b. about 1648, d. about 1740, m. in 1682, Eliza- 
beth, dau. of Isaac Piatt, and had: 

I. ^John, b. April 3, 1683, removed to Greenwich 
Conn., bought land there in 1718, m. , and 

had: 
I. 4 Joshua, b. June II, 1717. 



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^ BENJAMIN above referred to, b. at Huntington, L. I., Oct. 20, 
1682, removed to Greenwich, Conn., bought land there in 
1726, d. Dec, 1759, will probated at Stamford, m. Mary 

, b. Oct. 20, 1704, d. May 26, 1759, and had: 

I. ''Edward, b. about 1731, d. Nov. 18, 1772, m. Deborah 
Wood, of Ingersoll, b. Oct. 24, 1736, d. March 5, 1816, 
and had : 

s Deborah, b. Dec. 19, 1755, m. Ely Mead. 

s Mary, b. Jan. 14, 1758, m. Sutherland. 

s Hannah, b. April 11, 1760, m. Odle Close. 

s Edward, b. Sept. 2, 1762, d. Aug. 18, 1774. 

5 Anne, b. Oct., 1766, m. Jonathan Piatt. 

5 Sarah, b. Oct. 2, 1768, m. Charles Smith. 

5 Betty, b. Feb. 25, 1772, m. George Corwin. 

5 Benjamin, b. July 5, 1764, d. March 8, 1847, m. 

Feb. 5, 1784, Semantha Reynolds, b. Feb. 2, 1766, 

d. Nov. 15, 1849, and had: 

1. ^ Fanny, b. about 1789, m. William Rundle. 

2. ^Edward, b. in 1791, d. at Fort Wayne, Ind., 
Aug. 10, 1825, while employed as a civil engi- 
neer in the construction of a canal, m. Nov. 
23, 18 12, Ann, dau. of Nathaniel and Abigail 
(Reynolds) Ingersoll, and had (born in Indi- 
ana): 

1. "^ Elma C, b. in 1814, d. in 1896, m. Job L. 
Husted. 

2. 7 Joseph E., b. March 23, 1817, d. Jan. 7, 
1886, m. Mary C. Wright, b. in 1832, d. 
March 13, 1893, and had the following 
children who survived him: ^Edward, 
« Joel L., and ^ Walter W. 

3. ^shadrach M., b. Dec. 11, 1818, d. in 
Greenwich, Conn., July 11, 1903, m. June 
6, 1848, Emeline M., dau. of Joseph and 
Mary (Hobby) Ingersoll, b. Sept. 4, 1820, 
d. Oct. 26, 1898, and had: ^William P., 
* Semantha R., ^ S. Augustus, * Henry 
L., ^ Emily I., and * LilHan. 

4. "^ Rebecca A., b. , m. John L. C. 
Hoyt. 

5. 7 Mary A., b. Aug. 19, 1823, d. Dec. 7, 
1852, m. Mills Hobby Husted of Green- 
wich, Conn. 

6. 7 ggj^^jj^i^g^^ l3_ j^j^ j8^ 1826, d. July 25, 
1843, unm. 

3. ^Joseph, b. Aug. 3, 1792, d. Nov. 21, 1870, m. 
March 18, 1823, Sarah A., dau. of Richard 
and Rachel (Mead) Mead, b. Jan. 9, 1803, d. 
Aug. 19, 1877, and had: ^Amos M., ^ Richard 



Brush Family 513 

E., 7 Theodore, ^ Elizabeth S., ^ Benjamin, 
7 Mary L., ^ Joseph E. B., 7 Emily C, ^ Ben- 
jamin P., 7 Stella P., 7 George W., ^ Julia E., 
and 7 Catharine C. (See Mead Genealogy, 
page 265.) 

4. ^Benjamin, b. Feb. i, 1801, d. Oct. 17, 1830, 
m. Oct. 5, 1829, Clarissa Sackett, no issue. 

5. ^ Sarah, b. , m. Joel Wright. 

6. ^ Semantha, b. , m. David Hobby. 

7. ^ Piatt, b. Nov. II, 1802, d. Sept. 12, 1837, m. 
Dec. 20, 1826, Maria, dau. of Tompkins and 
Mary Close, b. April 12, 1801, d. March 2, 
1848. No issue. 

8. ^ Deborah, b. , m. Reuben R. Finch. 

9. ^ Edmund B., b. Jan. 5, 1811, unm., d. July 20, 
1832. 

2. 4 Mary, b. about 1736, m. General John Mead, b. in 

1725. 

3. ''Benjamin, Captain, b. about 1739, d. Nov. 22, 1822, 
m. 1st, a dau. of Rev. Benjamin Strong, m. 2d, Feb. 
22, 1775, Rebecca Finch, b. Feb. 10, 1752, d. May 7, 
1826, and had by his ist wife: 

1. s Lucy Ann, b. , m. Downs. 

2. s Laura Ann, b. 

3. ^ Hannah, b. 

4. s Ard, b. 

5. 5 Benjamin, b. April 28, 1774, d. Sept. 29, 1852, m. 
June 22, 1799, Rachel Brush, b. Sept. 26, 1779, d. 
March 28, 1853, and had: 

1. ^ Shubel, b. April 17, 1801, d. Sept. 16, 1864, m. 
Feb. 20, 1828, Sarah F., dau. of Samuel Brush, 
b. 1807, d. Nov. 5, 1848, and had: 

1. 7 Mary A., b. , m. George A. 
Lock wood. 

2. 7 Samuel, d. young. 

3. 7 Rachel A., b. 

4. 7 Harriet, b. 

5. 7 Henry, d. young. 

2. '•William, b. Sept. 26, 1802, d. April 7, 1884, 
unm. 

3. ^ Charles, b. Aug. 4, 1804, d. Aug. 18, 1883, m. 
Dec. II, 1828, Christiana Hobby of Middle 
Patent, b. April 5, 1809, d. Dec. 4, 1905, and 
had: ^ Benjamin, '''Mary E., and ^John. 

4. ^ John, b. 1808, d. Oct. 3, 1827, unm. 
By 2d wife: 

6. s Rachel, b. Sent. 26, 1778. . • 

7. s Abigail, b. July 24, 1780, m. '^^^^^'Knapp. 

8. sAnne, b. Jan. 2, 1784, m. Smith. 



514 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

9. s Rebecca, b. Dec. 15, 1786. 

10. 5 Jonathan, b. , m. Nov. 29, 1814, 
Laura Mead, he d. in Penn., and had: 

1. ^ Laura, b. in 1816. 

2. ^ Rebecca, b. in 1819, and perhaps others. 

11. sMary Ann, b. Feb. 23, 1794, d. Aug. 27, 1881, 
unm. 

4. '♦shubel, b. about 1741, d. Feb. 13, 1800, m. Christina 
, who after his d. m. Finch, and had: 

1. s Samuel, b. , m. Ferris, and had: 

I. ^ Sarah F., who m. Shubel Brush, b. April 17, 
1 801, and perhaps others. 

2. ^ Benjamin, b. 

3. 5 James, b. 

4. s John, b. 

5. s Edward, b. in 1775, d. April 12, 1844, issue. 

6. 5 Ann, b. 

7. s Mary, b. 

8. s Christina, b. 

9. s Betsy, b. 

5. * Ann, b. , m. Jonathan Piatt. 

6. ■* James, b. April 28, 1749, d. May 28, 1812, m. Martha 
, d. in 1838, and had: 

1 . ■^ James, b. 

2. 5 Edward, b., m., d. before 1838, and had: 

1. ^ Henry, b. 

2. ^ Stephen b. 

3. <^ Edward b. 

4. ^ Mary, b. 

3. 5 David, b. 

4. s Edmond, b. 

5. s Rachel, b. , m. Rundle. 

6. 5 Sally, b. , m. Henry Van Kleek. 

BUDD FAMILY. 

''John Budd, came from London in the America in 
1635 to Boston; was at New Haven in 1639; removed to 
Southold, Long Island, about 1645; settled in Rye, New 
York, in 1661, where he died in 1670, leaving a will dated 

Oct. 15, 1669. He married Katharine , and left him 

surviving, the following children: ^John, 'Joseph, * Judith, 
who m. 1st, John Ogden, and 2d, Francis Brown, and "Joan, 
who m. Joseph Horton. 

1. 'John, b. in England, in 1620, m. Mary , d. in 

Southold, Nov. 5. 1684. 

2. ' Joseph, b. in England, about 1622, d. in Rye, N, Y., m. 



Bush Family 515 

in Rye, Sarah, dau. of Humphrey Underhill, and 

according to his will probated May 27, 1722, he left 

him surviving the following children : ^ John, ^ Joseph, 

^Elisha, 3 Jonathan, ^ Gilbert, ^ Underhill, ^Sarah, 

3 Ann, 3 Tamar, and ^ Mary. 

An account of this family is to be found in the Report of 

the First Reunion of the Budd Family, held at Budd's Lake, 

Morris County, N. J., August 14, 1878, and also in Baird's 

History of the Town of Rye. 

BUSH FAMILY. 

Reference, Riker's History of Harlem, N. Y. 

^Hendrick Bosch, ancestor of the Bush family in 
America, was bom in Leyden, Holland ; his father's name was 
also Hendrick. Hendrick, the younger, married Ann Maria 
Rembach, by whom he had only one child, ^ albert, b. at 
Leyden, in 1645. After her death he married Maria, daughter 
of Gerrit Eshuysen, by whom he had a daughter bom in 
Leyden, who died young. 

He and his family embarked for New Amsterdam, Dec. 
23, 1660, and on his arrival he established himself as a sword- 
cutter. Here he had bom: 

3. ^ Dorothy, b. in 1661, m. Isaac Caspers Halenbeck. 

4. ^ Gerrits, b. in 1663, d. young. 

5. ' Gerrits, b. in 1665, d. young. 

6. * Hillegond, b. in 1666, m. Lodwyck Ackerman. 

By a third wife, Egbertie Dircks, widow of Hage Bruynsen^of 
Harlem, he had: 

7. ^ Cornelia, b. in 1672, m. Peter Gerard Cavalier. 

8. ^ Hendrick, b. in 1674. 

9. ^ Samuel, b. in 1677. 
10. * Joshua, b. in 1678. 

The father died in 1701, leaving a will dated Apl. 23, 1701. 
His eldest son, ^albert, learned his father's trade, 
married in 1668, Elsie, daughter of Jurian Blanck, by 
whom he had : 

1. ^ Jurian, b. in 1669. 

2. 3 Anna Maria, b. in 1672, m. Edward Marshall. 

3. 3 JUSTUS, b. in 1674, settled in Rye, N. Y., in 1726. 

4. 3 Albertus Conradus, b. in 1681. 

5. 3 Casparus, b. in 1683. 

^JUSTUS, b. in 1674, removed to Rye, N. Y., d. in 1738, m. Feb. 
23, 1697, Anne Smith, d. Aug. 5, 1745, and had: 
I. ''Justus, b. , removed to Greenwich, Conn., 



5i6 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

and on Jan. 15, 17 16, was granted leave to build a grist- 
mill on Horseneck Brook below the County Road, d. 
Nov. 23, 1760, m. , and had: 

I. s Elizabeth, b. Jan. 7, 1721, m. Nathaniel Sackett. 

' 2. 5 Justus, b. Aug. 5, 1723, d., 1776, m. Mary , 

no issue. 

3. s Samuel, b. July 7, 1725, d. before 1761. 

4. s John, b. Sept. 4, 1727, d. young. 

5. 5 Ann, b. Sept. 8, 1729, m. John Grigg. 

6. s Ruth, b. Oct. 8, 1731, m. Dr. Amos Mead. 

7. s David, b. Dec. 7, 1733, d. May 8, 1797, m. ist, 

Sarah , m. 2d, April 9, 1777, Sarah, widow 

of Captain Benjamin Isaacs, late of Norwalk, 
Conn., b. Sept. 18, 1742, d. Aug. 22, 1824, and 
had by his ist wife: 

1. ^Justus R.. b. 1758. 

2. ^ Samuel, b. about 1760, d. Nov. 24, 1826, m. 
Ann , b. in 1761, d. Sept. 6, 1836. 

3. ^ Mary. b. 

4. ^ EHzabeth, b. 
By 2d wife: 

5. <* Justus L., b. Dec. 5, 1777. d. Aug. 25, 1844, 
m. Sally St. John, b. Aug. 12, 1788, d. Sept. 3, 
1849. 

6. ^ Ralph I., b. Oct. 29, 1779. 

7. ^ Fanny, b. Jan. i, 1782. 

8. ^Charlotte, b. May 26, 1784, m. Stephen 
Buckingham. 

9. ^ Grace, b. April 5, 1788, d. unm. Feb. 7, 1858. 

10. ^ Mary, b. , m. Henry Davis. 

11. ^ Sally, b. , m. Ira Rogers. 

12. 6 Elizabeth, b. 

8. 5 Henry, b. Feb. 7, 1735, d. in 1762. 

9. ^William, Dr., b. Feb. 24, 1737, d. 1794, m. Jan. 
II, 1778, Deborah Mead. 

10. s Charity, b. Feb. 23, 1739, m. Nathaniel Mead. 

11. ^ Mary, b. Feb. 3, 1742, m. Captain Matthew 
Mead. 

2. "Charity, b. , m. William Smith. 

3. " Elizabeth, b, , m. John Abrahamson. 
/ 4. ^ Henry, b. 

, 5. "Albertus, b. 

6. "John, b. 

7. "Bernardus, b. 

8. " Isaac, b. 

9. "-Abraham, b. Feb. 16, 1720, m. 1750, Ruth Lyon, b. 
Jan. 10, 1724, d. June 22, 1804, and had: 

I. ^ Abraham, b. in 1751, d. Sept. 26, 1785, when the 
boat of which he was captain was wrecked off the 




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Close Family ' 517 

coast of North Carolina, and all drowned, m. Nov. 
26, 1780, Mary, dau. of Andrew and Sarah (Budd) 
Lyon, b. Jan. 9, 1756, d. Oct. 18, 1838, and had: 

1. ^William, b. June 17, 1781, d. Dec. 24, 1856, 
m. Eliza Davenport, b. Aug. 18, 1792, d. Oct. 
28, 1874, and had: ''Andrew L., ^ William L., 
7 Mary, ^ H. Hobart, ^ Newberry D., ' EHza- 
beth, and "^ Charlotte. 

2. ^Rebecca, b. Sept 14, 1785, d. June 24, 1875. 

3. ^ Daughter, 

2. 5 Qiibgj-t, b. Nov. 7, 1753, d. Feb. 2, 1831, m. 
Sabrina, dau. of Samuel Seymour, b. in 1759, d. 
Sept. 14, 1832. 

3. 5 Anne, b. , m. Jonathan Fisher. 

4. ^ Sarah, b. , m. Thomas Theal. 

5. s Elizabeth, b. March 20, 1761, m. Ezrahiah Wet- 
more. 

6. 5 Rebecca, b. Jan. 20, 1766, d. Aug. 21, 1855, m. 
in 1790, Daniel Merritt. 

10. '' Anne, b. 

CLOSE FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance of 
Arthur S. Kimball, East Orange, New Jersey. 

According to Hotten's Lists of Emigrants to America, 
Phettiplace Close came to Virginia in 1608, and was granted 
a patent of one hundred acres of land on the James River, in 
the Corporation of Henrico, in 1626. In response to an 
inquiry as to him, the secretary and librarian of the Virginia 
Historical Society, under date of May 29, 1908, states that 
he has no "evidence to show whether Phettiplace Close 
(Clause) left a family ... As the name does not appear 
here later, I think it probable that he was one of the numer- 
ous settlers, who succumbed to disease, or was killed by the 
Indians. " 

The name of Close, in New England, first appears in the 
will of William Frost of Fairfield, Connecticut, dated Jan. 6, 
1644, where one Goodman Close is mentioned as having one 
of the testator's heifers. (See Ma?iwaring's Abstract of Hart- 
ford Wills, vol. I, page 13.) Goodman Close probably died 
at Fairfield about 1653, and left him surviving, his widow, 
Elizabeth, and the following children: Hannah, Thomas, 
Joseph, and Mary. His widow afterwards married George 
Stuckey, and had one child, Elizabeth Stuckey. 



5i8 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

George Stuckey bought land at Windsor, Connecticut, 
in 1640, sold out in 1645, removed to Fairfield, where he 
married the widow Close, and later removed to Stamford, 
Connecticut, with his step-children. His wife died at Stam- 
ford, Sept. 4, 1656. He died at Stamford, Sept. 28, 1660, 
leaving a will, which is recorded in the Stamford Land 
Records. The will is dated Aug. 23, 1660, and makes men- 
tion of the Close children, namely, Mary Close, Thomas 
Close, Hannah Close, and Joseph Close, then deceased. On 
the settlement of his estate, Nov. 6, 1660, Mary Close was 
represented by her guardian, which shows that she was not 
twenty-one years of age at that time. According to the 
records, the Close family in New England, in 1660, consisted 
of Hannah Close, who, June 9, 1657, married Joshua Knapp, 
Thomas Close, and Mary Close, who, June 25, 1668, married 
Samuel Holly. 

A search of the Parish Registers for County York, Eng- 
land, seems to indicate that Goodman Close was bom in 
Grinton Parish, where the family attained considerable 
prominence. 

Thomas Close above referred to settled permanently in 
Greenwich, Connecticut, and was one of the original paten- 
tees named in the patent granted to the Town of Greenwich 
by the General Assembly in May, 1665. He married Sarah, 
daughter of Richard and Ann (Husted) Hardy, in 1669. He 
died in Greenwich in 1709, leaving a will, dated Dec. 30, 
1708, which was probated in 1709. He was a member of 
the General Assembly in 1701. 

'Goodman Close, b. about 1600, in County York, Eng- 
land, m. EHzabeth , b. about 1606, in England, came to 

America about 1642, and finally settled in Fairfield, Con- 
necticut, where Goodman Close died in 1653. His widow 
afterwards married George Stuckey, and died in Stamford, 
Connecticut, Sept. 4, 1656. Her children by her first hus- 
band were: 

1. ^Hannah, b. about 1632, m. June 9, 1657, Joshua 
Knapp, and after his death she married John Bowers. 

2. ^ Joseph, b. about 1634, d. without issue before 1660. 

3. ^THOMAS, b. about 1637, m. Sarah, daughter of 
Richard and Ann (Husted) Hardy, in 1669, he d. in 
Greenwich, in 1709. 

4- "" Mary, b. about 1640, living April 15, 1725, m. June 25, 
1668, Samuel Holly. 
'THOMAS CLOSE, above referred to, is the ancestor of the Close 
family in Fairfield County, Conn., and also of Westchester 



Close Family 519 

and Dutchess Counties, N. Y., where many of his descend- 
ants settled. His will is dated Dec. 30, 1708, and probated 
in 1709; executors, wife Sarah and son Joseph; mentions 
the following children: ^ Sarah, ^ Hannah, ^ Thomas, dec'd 
(and his three children), ^ Joseph, ^ Benjamin, ^ Elizabeth, 
3 Ruth, 3 John, and ^Lydia. 

1. 3 Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1670. 

2. 3 Hannah, b. March 12, 1672, m. in 1696, Johannes 
Luqueer of Newtown, L. I. 

3. ^Thomas, b. Dec. 16, 1674, d. in 1707, m. Feb. 
1703, Hannah Knapp, and had: 

1. '• Sarah, b. Nov. 9, 1703. 

2. '•Hannah, b. March 29, 1705, m. Isaac 
Rundle. 

3. "Thomas, b. Nov. 28, 1706, d. Nov. i, 1764, 
m. May 6, 1729, Hannah, dau. of John Lyon, 
b. in 1704, d. April 8, 1780, and had: 

1. s Hannah, b. Jan. 11, 1730, m. Dec. 17, 
1749, Theophilus Lockwood. (See Lock- 
wood Genealogy.) 

2. 5 Sarah, b. March 13, 1733, m. Oct. 25, 
1755. Jesse Parsons, Town Clerk of the 
Town of Greenwich, 1760 to 1775, both 
years inclusive, he d. July 26, 1776, and 
had: 

1. ''Theophilus, b. June 29, 1756. 

2. ^ Jesse, b. Sept 12, 1758. 

3. '^Tryphena, b. April 23, 1761. 

4. ^ Phebe, b. June 22, 1763, d. Nov. 29, 

1835. 

5. ^ Hannah, b. Oct. 23, 1765, m. Daniel 
Rowell. 

6. ^ Eliphaz, b. April 6, 1768. 

7. ^ Parmenas, b. May 12, 1771. 

3. s Ruth, b. Aug. 2, 1735, m. Sept. 14, 1751 , 
Timothy, son of Israel Knapp, after his 
d. she m. King. 

4. s Phebe, b. June 29, 1738, d. in 1792, m. 
Feb. 24, 1758, Joseph Lyon, Jr. (See 
Lyon Genealogy.) 

5. s Thomas, b. April 5, 1740, d. in 1792, m. 
Sept. 30, 1765, Hannah, dau. of Joseph 
Lyon of White Plains, N. Y., d. April 8, 
1780, no record of any children. 

4. 3 Joseph, b. Nov. 20, 1676, d. Oct. 4, 1760, m. in 
1701, Rebecca Tompkins, b. in 1679, d. Nov. 13, 
1 761, and had: 

I. "Joseph, b. Sept. 20, 1702, d. Jan. 4, 1760, m. 
1st, May 29, 1728, Eunice Hait, d. March 7, 



520 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1740, m. 2d, July 26, 1744, Mary Merritt, 

and had : 

I. s Joseph, b. July 21, 1729, d. Nov. 8, 1808, 
m. 1st, Eunice, dau. of Elnathan and 
Sarah (Lyon) Mead, m. 2d, Elizabeth, 
dau. of Theophilus and Elizabeth (Mead) 
Peck, b. Nov. 21, 1731, d. Jan. 18, 1816, 
and had by his ist wife: 

1. ^Elnathan, b. , a Revo- 
lutionary soldier. 

By 2d wife: 

2. ^Elizabeth, b. about 1752, d. in 
Orange County, N. Y., m. Nov. 4, 
1773, Nathan Reed. 

3. ^Eunice, b. about 1754, d. April 12, 
1 801, near Byram River, Greenwich, 
m. Oct. 4, 1781, Gideon Peck, b. 
Sept. 6, 1754, d. Jan. 7, 1813. 

4. ^ Mary, b. about 1756, d. in North 
Stamford, Conn., m. Husted. 

5. ^Joseph, b. April i, 1758, Revolu- 
tionary soldier, d. Aug. 23, 1840, m. 
Charlotte Holmes, b. 1775, d. Oct. 7, 
1847. No issue. 

6. ^Solomon, b. Nov. 28, 1759, Revolu- 
tionary soldier, d. at White Plains, 
N. Y., Jan. 28, 1840, m. Dec, 1801, 
Prewy, dau. of Joseph Peck, who 
m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel 
Peck, b. March 9, 1771, d. at White 
Plains, Dec. 14, 1850, and had: 

1. ^Solomon, b. Dec. 10, 1802, d. 
Oct. 20, 1873, unm. 

2. 7 Sarah, b. March 11, 1805, d. 
March 3, 1880, unm. 

3. ^Joseph, b. May 23, 1808, d. 
Sept. 13, 1885, m. April 20, 1842, 
Sarah J. Brown, b. Feb. 14, 
1814, d. May 30, 1887, and had: 
* Mary J., ^Solomon, ^Abra- 
ham, ^George B., * Josephine, 
and ^ Samuel G. 

4. 7 pj-ewy, b. Oct. 21, 1810, d. at 
Cos Cob, Conn., July 21, 1890, 
unm. 

5. ■? Mary E.,b. May23, 1813, d. at 
Greenwich, Jan. 15, 1871, unm. 

6. 7 Deborah, b. Jan. 31, 1816, d. 



Close Family 521 

at Greenwich, Dec. lo, 1871, m. 

Elijah Hunter. 
7. ^ Abraham, b. Jan. 9, 1762, d. March 
9, 1841, m. Feb. 6, 1783, Mary Hub- 
bard, b. March 29, 1764, d. Nov. 21, 
1844, and had: 

1. 7 Thomas, Dr., b. Dec. 30, 1784, 
d. April 14, 1863, practised med- 
icine at Port Chester, N. Y., m. 
April 29, 1807, Jemima Hobby, 
b. May i, 1796, d. Oct. 22, 1863, 
and had five children. 

2. 7 Henry, b. Nov. 7, 1787, d. 
Sept. 15, 1853, m. Sept. 29, 1813, 
Arney Reynolds, b. Sept. 21, 
1790, d. April 9, 1870, and had: 
* Emily Ann, who m. Solomon 
S. Kimball, and had Charles H. 
Kimball, who had Arthur S. 
Kimball of East Orange, N. J. 

3. 7 Harvey, b. Jan. 24, 1790, d. 
April I, 1830, m. Sept. 2-], 1814, 
Jemima Lockwood, b. in 1792, d. 
Nov. 10, 1876, in N. Y. City, 
and had: 

I. ^ Aaron, b. in 1815, d. Nov. 
25, 1894, m. Harriet Udell, 
b. in 1817, d. Feb. 3, 1844, 
and had : 

1. ^Edward, b. 1844, d. 
April 14, 1888, m. 
Emma Bennett, and 
had: ^^ Edward B., who 
m. Marjorie Merri- 
weather, dau. of C. W. 
Post, and '"Henry B. 

2. 9 David, b. 

3. 'Jane, b. 

4. 9 Mary Anne, b. 

5. ' Frank, b. 

2. * David, b. in 1820, d. Oct. 
16, 1893, m. Harriet Corse, 
b. in 1828, d. Dec. 29, 1907, 
and had: ' Ella M., » Mary 
Louise, 9 Annie H., » Walter 
H., and 'Adelaide, who m. 
Dr. Wilham N. Hubbard. 
4. ■'Polly Ann, b. Aug. 7, 1799, d- 

Nov. 19, 1876, m. April 28, 1834. 



522 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Conklin Husted, b. Dec. 7, 1790, 
d. Dec. 12, 1880. 
5. 'Abraham H., b. Jan. 13, 1803, 
d. Dec. 22, 1871, m. June 22, 
1835, Ann, dau. of William 
Mead, b. Aug. 20, 1804, d. Aug. 
24, 1880. No issue. 

8. ^Rachel, b. , d. in New 
York City, m. David Wiswell. 

9. ^ Deborah, d. age six weeks. 

10. ^ Ruth, b. , d. in New York 
City, m. April 20, 1796, Stephen 
Dutch of New York. 

11. ^ David, b. , d. in Rising 

Sun, Ind., m. ist, Brown, 

2d, , in Indiana. 

12. ^ Sarah, b. in 1775, d. June 22, 1845, 
in Harrison, N. Y., m. Moses Field. 

13. ^ Aaron, b. in 1780, d. March, 1815, 
in North Stamford, Conn. 

2. 5 Eunice, b. May 10, 1731, d. Aug. 9, 1807, 
m. Gershom Lockwood, 3d, b. about 
1728, d. in 1798, in Stanwich, Conn. 

3. sjerusha, b. April 21, 1733, m. Samuel 
Reynolds. 

4. s Odle, b. Oct. 22, 1738, an officer in the 
Revolutionary War, d. April 26, 1812, m. 
Dec. 16, 1756, Bethia, dau. of Gideon 
Reynolds, b. Feb. 27, 1742, d. Feb. 17, 
1832, and had: 

I. ^Odle, b. Jan. 11, 1758, d. May 14, 
1804, m. Hannah Brush, b. April 11, 
1760, d. Jan. 6, 1822, and had: 

1. 'Edward, b. April 6, 1783, d. 
May 25, 1839, m. Jan. i, 
1809, Charlotte, dau. of Joseph 
Hobby, b. Aug. 21, 1788, d. Oct. 
30, 1836, and had: ^Gideon, 
8 Joseph H., 8 Edwin T., « Odle, 
8 George C, and ^ Shadrach 
M. 

2. 7 Shadrach, b. Nov. 17, 1788, d. 
Nov. 15, 1828, m. Peninah Fer- 
ris, b. Sept. 6, 1790, d. March 19, 
1 87 1, and had: ^ Mary, * Samuel, 
8 Jackson, and ^ Mary. 

3. 'Gideon, b. June 10, 1791, d. 
Aug. 13, 1808, unm. 

4. 'Elizabeth, b. April 20, 1793, d. 



Close Family 523 

, m. Nathaniel Knapp of 
Round Hill. 

5. 7 0dle, b. Oct. 16, 1797. d. in 
1837, m. Oct. 6, 1834, Rachel E., 
dau. of Daniel S. and Rachel 
(Mead) Mead, b. Oct. 13, 1814, 
d. May 8, 1866, after his death 
she m. David B. Mead, b. Aug. 
22, 1813, d. March 3, 1879. 
(See Mead Genealogy, page 
268.) 

6. 7 Hannah, b. Nov. 19, 1801, d. 

, m. ist, Feb. i, 1826, 
Rev. Lewis Mead, no issue, m. 
2d, Rev. Chester Birge, and 
had three children. 

2. ^ Bethia, b. May 6, 1760, d. Jan. 17, 
1790, m. March 24, 1779. David 
Reed. 

3. ^ Gideon, b. Dec. 6, 1762, d. Dec. 5, 
1819, m. Bethia, dau. of Joseph and 
Eunice (Knapp) Hobby, b. Feb. 7, 
1766, d. May 7, 1829. No issue. 

4. ^ Gilbert, b. March 7, 1765, d. Dec. 
22, 1845, m. ist, April 10, 1788, 
Charlotte, dau. of Theophilus Peck, 
2d, b. in 1769, d. Sept. 26, 1806, m. 
2d, Nov. 26, 1807, Sally Howe, b. 
Sept. 7, 1779, d. April 17, 1846. 
Issue. 

5. <* Jonathan, b. Dec. 6, 1768, d. April 
30, 1 812, m. ist, Mary Mead, b. Jan. 
10, 1775, d. April 3, 1805, m. 2d, 
May 21 , 1806, Rebecca Lyon, b. Nov. 
10, 1765, d. May 19, 1858, and had: 

1. 7 Elizabeth, b. March, 1793. d. 
Oct. 29, 1878, m. Nov. 21, 1814. 
Cyrus Mead, b. Aug. n, 1798, d. 
in 1852. 

2. 7 Gilbert, b. , m. April 
13, 1817, Lucy P. Hobby. 

3. 7Horace, b. in 1796, d. March 25, 

1839, m. Amy Hobby. 

4. 7 William, b. , m. Ehza- 
beth Hart. 

5. 7 Jonathan A., b. in 1802, d. Feb. 
10, 1875, m. Mary Hart of 
White Plains, N. Y., b. Jan., 
1803, d. Jan. 31, 1879, and had; 



524 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

8 Allen H., « Mary, « George W., 
and 8 Martha. 

6. ' Lockwood R., b. March I2, 
1805, d. May i, 1812. 

By 2d wife: 

7. ■? Mary R., b. May 25, 1810, m. 
Feb. 28, 1831, Asa H. Brush. 

6. ^ Mary, b. April 16, 1770, d. May 6, 
1848, m. Sept. 22, 1790, Solomon 
Lockwood, b. Aug. 28, 1766, d. March 
9, 1 84 1, of Poundridge. 

7. ^ Tompkins, b. May II, 1772, d. Feb. 
18, 1855, m. Dec. 28, 1794, Mary, 
dau. of Ezekiel and Mary (Mead) 
Reynolds, b. Sept. 28, 1772, d. March 
27, 1851. 

8. ^ Eunice, b. Aug. 12, 1774, m. Aug. 14, 
1793, Amos Husted, b. Dec. 2, 1769. 

9. ^ Elizabeth, b. July 16, 1776, d. Oct. 

15, 1792. 

10. ^ Shadrach, b. Feb. 9, 1779, d. Sept., 
1780. 

11. ^ Nancy, b. March 17, 1781, m. in 
1797, Elnathan Husted, b. Jan. 16, 
1775, d. Feb. I, 1825. 

2. '' Elizabeth, b. July 11, 1704. 
3- ''Solomon, Deacon, b. June 23, 1706, d. at 
North Salem, N. Y., July 31, 1778, m. ist, 
Deborah Brush, b. in 1707, d. Sept. 26, 1765, 
m. 2d, May 7, 1767, Rachel Osborn, and had 
by his 1st wife (no children by 2d wife): 
I. 5 Solomon, b. May 22, 1730, d. June 13, 
1793, m. Nov. 7, 1 75 1, Abigail Barnum of 
Danbury, Conn., b. June 30, 1731, d. at 
North Salem, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1777, and 
had: 

1. ^Abigail, b. Nov. 20, 1752, d. at 
Clifton Park, N. Y., May 8, 1830, m. 
April 2, 1776, Lewis Rogers, b. in 
1753, d. Jan. II, 1822. 

2. ^ vSolomon, baptized Aug. 26, 1759, 
at North Salem. 

3. ^Elizabeth, b. March 18, 1756, d. at 
Schenectady, N. Y., June 30, 1801, 
m. Nov. 23, 1774, Benajah Starr, 

b. , d. July, 1825, after her 
d. he m. Mrs. Langdon, widow of a 
clergyman of Danbury. 

4. ^ Mercy b. Feb. i, 1761, d. at Pater- 



Close Family 525 

son, Sept. 23, 1783, m. March 2, 1780, 
James Phillips of Norwalk. 

5. ^ Mindwell, a dau., b. March 27, 
1763, d. April 4, 1816, m. Nov. 18, 

1784, Elder Abijah Peck, a Baptist 
minister, b. April 23, 1758, at Green- 
wich, d. at Clifton Park, Nov. 12, 
1848. 

6, ^ Hannah, b. Feb. 5, 1767, d. at North 
Salem, Feb. 9, 1841, m. Sept. 14, 

1785, Charles Ambler, b. in 1760, d. 
March i, 1830. 

7. ^ Phebe, b. Jan. 8, 1770, d. July 21, 
1 85 1, m. Dr. Epenetus Wallace, b. 
Nov. 17, 1766, d. Jan. 11, 1856. 

s Nathaniel, b. Feb. i, 1732, d. Feb. 6, 

1773, m. latter part of 1757, or first part 

of 1758, Sarah, dau. of Theophilus Peck 

of Greenwich, b. Oct. 29, 1733, d. Oct. 

8, 1822, after his death she m. Thomas 
Paddock, b. in 1722, of Southeast, N. Y., 
d. Jan. 17, 1799. 

The Close children are : 

1. ^ Jesse, b. Nov. 29, 1758, d. Jan. 11, 
1844, unm. 

2. ^ Nathaniel, of North Salem, N. Y., 
b. May 5, 1760, d. July 29, 1837, m. 
Feb. 14, 1790, Mary Wood, b. Aug. 
29, 1770, d. April 3, 1848, and had: 
^ Ebenezer, ^ Amzi, ^ Nathaniel, 
"^ Rachel, and ^ John. 

3. "^ Sarah, b. 1762, d. April 3, 1782, m. 
March 11, 1779, Major Uriah Wal- 
lace, b. Oct. 22, 1750. 

4. ^ Deborah, b. Aug. 20, 1765, d. at 
Michigan City, Ind., Jan. 30, 1854, 
m. Jan. 30, 1782, Thomas Chapman, 
b. May 5, 1760, d. June 15, 1827. 

5. ^ Rachel, b. March 27, 1768, d. March 
15, 1829, m. Sept. ID, 1786, James 
Paddock of Southeast, N. Y., b. 
there Jan. 8, 1766, d. Dec. 11, 1838, 
at Mentz, N. Y. 

6. ^ Isaac, b. in 1770, d. Oct. 6, 1811, 
unm. 

7. ^ Marilda, b. March 12, 1772, d. May 
7, 1831, m. Nov. 24, 1790, Joshua 
Crosby, b. Jan. 10, 1770, at South- 
east, d. winter of 1 840-1. 



526 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

3. s Deborah, b. Aug. 20, 1733, m. Nathan 
Keeler of Ridgefield, Conn. 

4. s Hannah, b. April 25, 1736, d. Dec. 22, 
1806, m. Nov. 22, 1759, Captain Joseph 
Lockwood of Poundridge, d. March 15, 
1792, she m. 2d, Captain James Richards, 
of New Canaan, Conn., d. May 17, 18 10, 
age eighty-seven years. 

5. ^John, Rev., b. Sept. 15, 1737, graduate 
of Princeton College, chaplain in the 
Revolutionary War, d. April 19, 18 13, at 
Waterford, N. Y., m. Jan. 14, 1766, Mary 
Wicks of Huntington, L. I., and had three 
daughters, and two sons, ^John T., and 
6 Eliphalet W. 

6. s Sarah, b. Feb. 12, 1739, d. Sept. 22, 1806, 
m. Oct. 12, 1 76 1, Timothy Deli van of 
Southeast, buried at Patterson, N. Y., d. 
Jan. 19, 1813, age seventy-four years. 

7. 5 Jesse, b. Feb. 18, 1742, served in the 
French and Indian War, d. July 29, 1858, 
at Half Moon Point. 

8. 5 David, Rev., b. Feb. 12, 1743, graduate 
of Yale College, d. March 19, 1783, in 
Patterson, N. Y., m. Dec. 7, 1774, Han- 
nah Comstock, no issue. 

9. s Samuel, b. March 27, 1744. 

10. ^Tompkins, b. June 30, 1745, d. Sept. 26, 
1770, at Fishkill, N. Y. 

11. s Mindwell, a daughter, b. June 30, 1745, 
d. Oct. 22, 1762. 

4. "Abigail, b. June 5, 1710, m. Jan. 14, 1730, 
John Knapp, b. March 10, 1708. 

5. "Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1712, m. May 21, 1731, 
David Mead, b. in 1702, d. Sept., 1766. 

6. "Rachel, b. Feb. 12, 1715, m. Jan. 7, 1735, 
David Knapp, b. Feb. 17, 1709. 

7. " Thomas, b. Feb. 7, 1718. 

8. " Nathaniel, b. Feb. 7, 1718. 

9. " Rebecca, b. May 21, 1723, m. Dec. 23, 1742, 
John Rundle. 

5. ^Benjamin, b. May 18, 1679, d. March, 1759, m. 

1st, in 1711, , 2d, Ruth, widow of 

Joseph Brown, Jr., and had by his ist wife: 

I. "Benjamin, b. March 6, 1712, removed to 

Salem, N. Y., d. Jan. 25, 1782, m. ist, March 

10. 1743, Patience Tyler, 2d, Mary Mead, 
3d, widow Susannah Knapp, b. in 1726, d. 
July 27, 18 15. He was a loyalist, sent within 



Close Family 527 

the British lines in 1778, and died there on 
Long Island in 1782. Children by his ist 
wife were : 

1. s Benjamin, b. Dec. 15, 1743, d. April 29, 
1 8 12, m. Theodosia, dau. of Nathaniel 
and Prudence (Wood) Mead, b. July 6, 
1749, d. April 27, 1830, and had: ^David, 
^ Benjamin, and ^ Philander. 

2. s Abraham, b. April 2, 1746, served in 
British Army during Revolutionary War, 
d. in Province of Quebec, Jan. 23, 1827, 
m. Esther Bloomer, b. Jan. i, 1747, d. 
Aug. I, 1819. 

By 2d wife: 

3. s Stephen, b. , removed to 
Cayuga County, N. Y. 

4. s Martha, b. 

5. 5 Mary, b. , m. Reynolds. 

2. "Martha, b. Oct. 26, 1714, m. Jan. 25, 1731, 
John Baxter. 

3. " Elizabeth, b. Sept. 17, 1716, m. July 24, 1733, 
Jonathan Lockwood, b. in 1710. 

4. " Reuben, b. Feb. 9, 1718. 

5. "Jonathan, b. Feb. 3, 1720, d. Feb. 22, 1754, 
m. June 21, 1742, Sarah, dau. of Samuel 
Mills, b. Jan. 29, 1722, after his d. she m. 
Jacob Smith, and had: 

1. s Sarah, b. Nov. 30, 1743. 

2. s Mercy, b. Sept. 21, 1745, m. Joseph 
Mead of Ridgefield, Conn. 

3. sjabez, b. Oct. 5, 1747, m. ist, Sept. 9, 
1779, in North Salem, N. Y., Abigail 
Smith, m. 2d, Aug. 21, 1788, Abigail Seely. 

4. s Ruth, b. Nov. 16, 1750, d. Nov. 30, 1750. 

5. ^Jonathan, b. Jan. i, 1754, m. March 15, 
1785, Hannah Ritch. 

6. " Nathaniel, b. May 5, 1722, d. young. 

7. "Samuel, b. July 31, 1724, d. Dec, 1770, m. 
Nov. 20, 1749, Deborah, dau. of Elnathan 
Mead, and had (she m. 2d, Smith) : 

1. s Samuel, b. Nov. 7, 1750, d. in the Revolu- 
tionary War, on July 5, 1777. 

2. s Elnathan, b. March 12, 1753, Revolu- 
tionary soldier, d. in 18 12, or 18 14, in 
Pine Hollow, N. Y., m. ist, Mary Moe, 
b. in 1768, m. 2d, Feb. 24, 1789, Marga- 
ret (Peggy) Wood, and had by his ist 
wife: 

I. ^ Elnathan, b. March 3, 1783, d. Feb. 



528 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

19, 1819, m. Feb. 19, 1806, Deborah 
Ferris, and had: ''Mary A., ^ John A., 
'' Ann J., and Ahasuerus F. 
By 2d wife: 

2. ^ Allen, b. , m. a daughter 
of Samuel Johnson of Pine Hollow, 
N. Y. 

3. ^ Polly, b. ,. m. Shank. 

4. ^ Ruth, d. young. 

5. ^ Henry, b. Dec. 10, 1795, d. Oct. 31, 
1875, m. April 5, 1818, Nancy Lock- 
wood. 

6. ^ Mahala, b. , unm. 

7. ^ Ebenezer, d. young. 

8. ^ Samuel, b. Feb. 6, 1802, d. Oct. 11, 
1883, m. Feb. 14, 1827, Samantha 
Dodge. 

9. ^ David, b. , d. in 1850, m. 
Fanny Dodge, lived at Dryden, and 
East Geneva, N. Y, 

10. ^RufusW.,b. ,m. Saman- 
tha . He lived at Moravia, N. 

Y., and had a son, ^ George. 

3. 5 Hannah, b. March 14, 1756, d. Nov. 5. 
1824, m. Nov. 18, 1777, Peter Mead, b. 
Jan. 14, 1755, d. Dec. 20, 1832. 

4. s Deborah, b. July 6, 1758, m. Jan. 12, 
1780, Zaccheus Mead, b. Dec. 30, 1759. 

5. s Benjamin, b. Sept. 10, 1760, d. Oct. 11, 
1836, m. March 8, 1785, Sarah, dau. of 
Peter Mead, b. Aug. i, 1765, d. Aug. 
18, 1836. He was wounded through the 
body and left arm in a skirmish at East- 
chester, N. Y., March i, 1781. Children: 

1. ^ Henry M., b. Dec. 26, 1785, d. Aug. 
II, 1846, m. 1st, Clarissa Knapp, m. 
2d, Dec. 20, 1813, Mary Moe, b. 
March 20, 1794, d. Oct. 5, 1849, at 
Sullivan, O. 

2. ^Benjamin, b. March 11, 1788, d. 
Aug. 10, 1852, m. Sept. 13, 1810, 
Elizabeth Gail, b. April 30, 1793, d. 
May 14, 1868. 

3. ^ Deborah, b. Feb. 7, 1790, d. Dec. 21 , 
1816, m. in 1808, Silas Skellenger. 

4. ^ Samuel J., b. Jan. 26, 1792, d. March 
25, 1841, m. 1st, Deborah Lockwood, 
m. 2d, April ii, 1822, Nancy Ann 
ColHer. 



Close Family 5^9 

5. ^Rhesa, b. March 24, 1795, d. Aug. 

28, 1847, m. Nov. 18, 1817, Hannah, 
dau. of Jonathan Mead (untraced), 
b. Jan. 24, 1800. 

6. ^ WilHam, b. June 21, 1797, d. April 

29, 1884, m. March 5, 1818, Esther 
HolHster, b. March i, 1797, at Genoa, 
N. Y., d. there July 30, 1873. 

7. ^ Hannah, b. March 25, 1799, d. Aug. 

1, 1827, m. Dec, 1819, Francis Hol- 
Hster, b. June 2, 1800, d. in Iowa. 

8. 6ReubenH.,b. Jan. 26, 1801, d. May 

2, 1891, m. 1st, Lydia M. Eastman, 
m. 2d, Amy Jane Fitch. No issue. 

9. ^ Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1803, d. Nov. 10, 
1804. 

10, ^ Mary A., b. Jan. 5, 1807, d. Jan. 20, 
1882, unm. 

s Henry M., b. June 29, 1763, d. Aug. 7, 

1783, m. March 7, 1782, Rosina Brundage, 

and had : 

I, ^ Samuel, b. Feb. 10, 1783, d. Jan. 24, 
1 878 , m. Dec. 24, 1 8 1 1 , Eliza Hobby, 
b. Dec. 14, 1795. He was Town 
Clerk of the Town of Greenwich for 
many years. 

s Jonathan, b. about 1765, lost at sea on 

his way to the West Indies. 

5 Daniel, b. Feb. 25, 1767, d. June 25, 

1852, m. Jan. 23, 1794, Rachel, dau. of 

Jonah and Rachel (Mead) Mead, b. Nov. 

15, 1773. d. Aug. 24, 1848. removed to 

SulUvan, O., and had: 

1. ^Zaccheus M., b. Jan. 25, 1795. d. 
Aug. 27, 1839, m. ist, May 25, 1823, 
Lydia Crane, m. 2d, June i, 1834, 
Lucinda Holmes. 

2. ^ Erastus S., M.D., b. June 6, 1797, d. 
March 26, 1866, m. May 10, 1823, 
Frances, dau. of Jeremiah Mead. 

3. 6 Peter M., b. Aug. 26, 1799, d. June 
16, 1889, m. Oct. 7, 1824, Lucretia, 
dau. of Reuben and Lucretia (Davis) 
Holmes. 

4. 6 Elsie M., b. April 19, 1802, d. Jan. 
13, 1827, m. Nov. 2, 1823, Hiram 
Moe. 

5. « Jonah M., b. Jan. 21, 1805, d. July 
22, 1885, m. March 21, 1833, Sophia 



530 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



6 

7 
8 

9 

10 



Comstock, removed to Hinckley, 
Ohio. 
6. ^ Sophronia A., b. March 30, 1807, d. 
March 28, 1885, m. Nov. 21, 1832, 
Gilderoy Chaffee, removed to Kan- 
sas. 

8. ^ Mary, b. April 27, 1727. 
By 2d wife : 

9. ''Nathaniel, b. March 6, 1735, d. Nov., 1770, 
m. Hannah, dau. of Caleb and Clemence 
(Mills) Knapp, b. Jan. 22, 1735, children 
living in 1789 were ^ Ruth and s Benjamin, 
others were ^ Peter and ^ William. 

^ Mary, b. in 1682, d. before 1718, m. Moses Hunt. 
3 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 5, 1684. 
3 Ruth, b. Nov. I, 1687. 
3 John, b. April 8, 1689. 
^ Lydia, b.in 1690. 



DAVIS FAMILY. 



Thomas Davis of Huntington, Long Island, bought 
the old grist-mill on the westerly side of Indian Harbor, at 
the present entrance to Bruce Park, on the twenty-third day 
of April, 1 761, from David Valentine, formerly of Hemp- 
stead, Long Island. Thomas Davis conveyed the mill to 
his son, Elisha Davis, on the nineteenth day of May, 1767. 
During the Revolutionary War, the mill was operated by 
Elisha Davis, who sold flour to the British, which was car- 
ried within their lines by means of a small sloop called the 
Miller's Damsel, and the property was confiscated. 

'Thomas Davis, m. Isabella , and d. in Greenwich in 

1780, leaving him surviving the following children: 

1. ^Elizabeth, m. Joshua Ketcham of Huntington, L. I. 

2. ^ Elisha, b. in 1737, d. in Greenwich, March 29, 1813, m. 

Anna . His property was confiscated for being a 

tory, but he returned in 1802, and bought the interest 
of the heirs of his brother in the mill, which he conveyed 
to his son, Silas. Among his children were: 

1. ^ Thomas, baptized in 1765. 

2. 3 Clarinda, baptized in 1768. 

3. 3 Walter, b. about 1770. 

4. 3 Silas, b. Oct. 21, 1772, d. Sept. 17, 1868, m. Feb. 
24, 1794, Maria Benson of Haverstraw, N. Y., b. 
July 31, 1773, and had: 

I. " Walter, b. Dec. 20, 1794. 



Dayton Family 



531 



2. 4 Henry, b. Jan. 8, 1797. 

3. ^ William B., b. March 25, 1799. 

4. '♦Thomas J., b. May 7, 1801. 
"Abraham B., b. Sept. 16, 1803. 
4 Ann Maria, b. May 7, 1806. 
"• Emeline I., b. July 30, 1808. 
'• Elisha, b. Dec. 28, 1810. 

9. '' Silas, b. April 4, 18 13. 
10. "• Edward D., b. Aug. 12, 1815. 
3. ^ Stephen, b. , d. in 1797, m. Mary 



-, and had: 
, Bethia, dau. of 



^ Stephen, b. , m. Jan. 24, i 
Nehemiah Mead, and had: 

1. ^ Laura, b. Feb. 9, 1789. 

2. '♦William, b. Dec. 24, 1790. 

3. '•Arthur, b. May 23, 1793. 

4. "♦ Josiah, b. Feb. 23, 1795. 

5. "Sally, b. Feb. 5, 1797. 

^ Josiah T., b. in 1767, d. Aug. 5, 1794, unm. 

^ Nancy, m. Hubbard. 

^ Daniel, b. 

^ Isabel, b. 

^ Mary, m. Elisha Carpenter. 

3 Elizabeth, m. Stephen Beers. 

^ Daughter, m. Darrow. 



DAYTON FAMILY. 

Reference, History of the Town of Easthampton, L. I., pub- 
lished in 1897, by Henry P. Hedges. 

^Ralph Dayton, probably bom in County York, Eng- 
land, about 1588, was one of the Governor Theophilus 
Eaton and Rev. John Davenport Company, which made a 
settlement at New Haven, Connecticut, in the spring of 
1638. He, however, sold out, and removed to Easthampton, 
Long Island, in 1648, and died there in 1657. He had two 
sons, ^ Samuel, who removed to Southampton, and died 
there leaving him surviving several children, and ^ Robert, 
who remained at Easthampton. The Greenwich family is 
descended from ^ Robert. 
^ ROBERT DAYTON, b. in 1 628, in England, came to New Haven 

with his father, and from thence removed to Easthampton, 

L. I., where he d. April i6, 1712, m. Elizabeth, dau. of John 

Woodruff, and had three children: 

1. 3 Elizabeth, b. , m. Leek. 

2. 3 Samuel, b. about 1665, d. Jan. 30, 1746, will New York 
County, m. Dorothy Miller, and had: 



532 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1. ^ Robert, b. in 1692, d. Sept. 28, 1722, m. and had: 

s Hannah, ^ Mary, and ^ John. 

2. "Daniel, b. in 1695, d. in 1763, will New York 
County, m. ist, Jan. 8, 1717, Deborah Brown, d. 
Nov. 6, 1717, m. 2d, Nov. 9, 1720, Mary Parsons, 
and had by ist wife: ^ Henry and ^ Deborah, by 
2d wife: ^Hannah, ^ Daniel, ^ Samuel, ^ Jonathan, 
5 and Mary, 

3. ''Joanna, b. in 1697, m. Serle. 

4. ''Nathan, b. in 1699, d. in 1774, will New York 
County, m. Nov. 1 1 , 1725, Amy Stratton, and had : 
s Samuel, ^ Nathan, ^ Amy, ^ EHzabeth, s Abra- 
ham, ^ Joanna, ^ Abraham, and ^ Jonathan. 

5. ''Jonathan, b. in 1700, d. Oct. 4, 1776, removed to 
Elizabethport, N. J. 

6. '' Samuel, b. in 1702, d. young. 

7. '' Elizabeth, b. in 1705, m. William Osborne. 

3. 3 Beriah, b. about 1668, d. April 30, 1746, will New York 
County, m. Jane , and had: 

1. '' Rachel, b. about 1700, m. Diamond. 

2. ''John, b. in 1702, d. in 1776, will in New York 
County, m. ist, March 2, 1721, Joanna Parsons, m. 
2d, June 8, 1754, Abigail Parsons, and had: 
5 Joanna, ^ Elizabeth, ^ Phebe, ^ John, and 
s Martha. 

3. '' Martha, b. about 1704, m. Brown. 

4. '' Maria, b. about 1706, m. Conklin. 

5. ''beriah, b. about 1708. Greenwich Line. 

6. '' Esther, b. about 17 10, m. Brown. 

7. '' Jeremiah, b. about 1713, m. Dec. 29, 1742, Mary, 
dau. of Cornelius Conklin, and had: ^ Jeremiah, 
^ Mary, and ^ Elizabeth. 

8. '' Jane, b. about 1 7 15. 

9. " Mary, b. about 1718. 

Greenwich Line. 

5. '' BERIAH, above referred to, b. about 1708, m. , and had: 

1. s David, b. about 1730. 

2. s Jesse, b. about 1733, m. Hannah , and had: 

1. ^ Susannah, b. about 1759. 

2. ^ David, b. at Easthampton, L. I., Dec. 21, 1761, d. 
at Greenwich, Conn., Jan. 23, 1838, m. Jan. 21, 
1789, Elizabeth Osborne, b. at Easthampton, L. I., 
Nov. 2, 1766, d. at Greenwich, Conn., April 10, 
1837, and had: 

1. ■^ Betsy, b. Nov. 9, 1790, m. Jonah Brundage. 

2. ^ Jacob, b. March 10, 1793, d. Jan. 31, 1845, m. 



Dayton Family 533 

Sarah Brown, and had: ^Samuel, who m. 
Mary, dau. of Benjamin Husted, and had: 
9 Mary E. 

3. ■^ Sarah, b. July 25, 1795, m. William Wood. 

4. 7 David, b. March 6, 1798, d. Jan. 26, 1872, m. 
March 6, 1827, EHzabeth, dau. of Edward 
Brush, b. in 1797, d. Sept. 20, 1863, and had: 

1. ^ John, b. Feb. 6, 1828, d. Aug. 18, 1908, 
m. Sept. 29, 1 85 1, Matilda, dau. of Shad- 
rach and Anice (Waterbury) Selleck of 
Stamford, d. Sept. 12, 1910, and had: 
' Mary Frances. 

2. * Sarah, b. Feb. 15, 1830, m. George 
Selleck. 

3. * Charles, b. Dec. 4, 1832, d. unm. Jan. 16, 
1881. 

4. ^ Henry, b. Sept. 10, 1834, m. Lizzie J., 
dau. of J. L. and Ann (Rogan) Davies of 
New York City, and had: 'Charles H., 
and 9 Edith E. 

5. » Mary E., b. Dec. 28, 1836, d. May 6, 
1897, m. Solomon Mead, b. Jan. 17, 1808, 
d. June 14, 1898. 

6. ^ David O., b. Feb. 23, 1840, d. unm. 
March 7, 1866. 

7. ^George H., b. Aug. 22, 1842, served in 
Co. I, loth C. v., d. Nov. 29, 1906, m. in 
1868, Elizabeth Louise Smith, and had: 
' Jennie Louise, and ' Ethel Frances. 

5. ^Amy, b. Feb. 3, 1800, m. Benoni Rundle. 

6. 7 Mehitable, b. June 21, 1802, d. unm. Aug. 27, 
1832. 

3. ^ Jacob, b. at Easthampton, L. L, in 1766, d. at 
Greenwich, Conn., Feb. 15, 1843, unm. 

4. ^ Jane, b. 

5. ^ Martha, b. 

6. ^ Hannah, b. 

7. ^Jasper, b. , remained at Easthampton. 
3. 5 Mary, b. about 1735. 

DENTON FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance of 
W. B. Denton of Detroit, Michigan. 

'Rev. Richard Denton was bom in County York, Eng- 
land, in 1586, educated at the University of Cambridge, 



534 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

graduated in 1623; was settled minister of Coley Chapel, 
Halifax, England, for seven years ; probably came to America 
with Governor Winthrop in 1630; first preached at Water- 
town, Massachusetts; in 1635, removed to Wethersfield, 
Connecticut; in 1641, removed to Stamford, Connecticut; 
and in 1644, removed to Hempstead, Long Island; returned 
to England in 1659, and died at Essex, England, in 1662. 
His four sons, ^ Richard, ^ Samuel, ^ Nathaniel, and ^ Daniel, 
remained on Long Island. (For an account of ^ Daniel Den- 
ton, see historical note concerning him by W, B. Denton, in 
Thomas Stevenson and his Descendants, published in 1902,) 
The Greenwich Denton family is descended from 
' Nathaniel Denton, son of the above ^ Rev. Richard Den- 
ton, who was bom about 1610, in England, came to America 
with his father, died at Jamaica, Long Island, before October 
18, 1690, married Sarah , and had: 

1. 3 Nathaniel, b. about 1652, d. at Jamaica, L. I., in 1719, 

m. ist, Deborah , m. 2d, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert 

and Catherine Ashman of Jamaica, and had eight chil- 
dren. 

2. 3 SAMUEL, b. in 1655, d. at Jamaica in 1699, m. Mary 
. (For children, see below.) 

3. 3 Richard, b. about 1658, d. at Jamaica in 1699, m. 
Mary, dau. of Joseph and Ann Thurston, and had six 
children. 

4. 3 Maria, b. 

5. 3 phebe, b. , m. John Foster. 

3 SAMUEL, above referred to, b. in 1655, d. at Jamaica in 1699, 
m. Mary , and had: 

1. '' Samuel, b. about 1677, d. in 1718-9, m. Martha . 

No issue. 

2. 4 Mary, b. about 1679, d. in 1714. 

3. ''Jacomiah, b. about 1681, d. , m. Abigail . 

4. ''Sarah, b. about 1682, m. Samuel Mills of Greenwich, 
Conn. 

5. /• Clement, b. about 1684, m. Ebenezer of Norwalk, 

Conn., and had six children. 

6. ''Solomon, b. about 1686, d. at Jamaica, in 1727, m. 
June 3, 1717, Athelene, dau. of Humphrey Clay, and 
had: 

I. ^Solomon, b. about 1718, removed to Greenwich, 
Conn., and d. there, m. ist, Lydia Husted, and had 
seven children, m. 2d, Judith Husted, b. Aug. 30, 
1735, and had eight children: 
I. "^Athelene, b. about 1749, d. in 1849, being a 



Denton Family 535 

few days over one hundred years old, m. Justus 
Brown of Bedford, N. Y. No issue. 

2. ^Samuel, b. about 1752, Revolutionary sold- 
ier. He settled in Nova Scotia (now New 
Brunswick), near the City of St. John. 
Issue. 

3. ^Solomon, b. Aug. 4, 1754, Revolutionary 
soldier, d. Feb. 11, 1828, m. in 1786, Clarissa 
Fowler. During the war, he attempted to 
cross Long Island Sound, was taken prisoner 
by a British man-of-war, and held on that ship 
one year and six months, when he made his 
escape, and arrived safely within the American 
lines. After the close of the war, he removed 
to Nova Scotia, but afterwards removed to 
Beekman, Dutchess County, N. Y., where he 
died. Issue: "^ Betsy, "^ Patty, ^ Josiah, ^ Aaron, 
'Abram, 'Fowler, ''Humphrey, 'Amos, 
' Solomon B., and ' Samuel C. 

4. ^ Aaron, b. , d. in 1803, m. Nov. 5, 1788, 
Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Avery, and had: 

I, ' Evert, b. Feb. 14, 1789, d. in 1830. 

5. ^ Peter, b. Dec. 24, 1759, d. , m. June 29, 
1790, Christina Gautier. Issue. 

6. ^ Betsy, b. , m. Ferris, and removed 

to Kentucky. 

7. ^ Moses, b. . He was drowned in New 
Haven Bay, when on his way to visit his 
brother in Nova Scotia. 

8. ^Nehemiah, b. in 1773, d. Aug. 13, 1845, m. 
Sarah Corkins, b. in 1775, d. May 12, 1849, 
and had: ' Phebe and ' Jane. 

9. * Abraham, b. in 1779, d. May 4, 1858, m. 
Alice Reasoner, b. in 1782, d. May 13, 1850, 
and had: 'Albert, 'Eliza, 'Noah, 'Mary, 
' William, ' Matilda, ' Aaron, ' Abraham, 
' Jane, and ' Emily. 

10. ^ David, b. , m. Mary Mead, and had: 
' David, ' Daniel, ' Solomon, ' Abigail, ' Jona- 
than, ' Rhoda, ' Judith, and ' Hannah. 

11. ^ Thomas, b. , d. Nov. 18, 1853, m. Deliah 
Kelsey, removed to PawHngs, Dutchess 
County, N. Y. Issue. 

12. * Caleb, b. , m. Hannah , and had one 

son, ' Orrin, and six daughters. 

13. ^ Noah, b. , m. , and had: 'Warren 

H., 'Ezra, 'Washington, ' Amandy, ' Albro, 
and ' Mary. 

14. * Amos, b. , m. Elizabeth Allen, and had: 



536 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

7 Samuel, ^ Mary, '' Anna, ' Esther, ^ Betsy, 
7 Martha, and ^ Sarah. 
15. ^Susannah, b. , d. unm. at PawHngs, 

Dutchess County, N. Y., where her father had 
moved to. 

2. 5 Samuel, b. in 1720. 

3. 5 Humphrey, b. about 1722, d. at Greenwich, Conn., 
in 1799, m. Abigail Smith, and had: 

1. ^Elizabeth, b. about 1750, m. Sept. 10, 1775, 
Henry Mead. Issue. 

2. '^Rebecca, b. , m, Nov. 18, 1788, Charles 
Mead. 

3. ^Daniel, b. , d. in 1823, at Greenwich, 
Conn., m. Feb. 14, 1793, Abigail Mead, and 
had: '' Benjamin and ^ John M. 

4. ^Abigail, b. , m. Feb. 4, 1793, William 
Fisk. 

5. ^ Samuel, b. , d. at Greenwich, Conn., in 
1817, m. Oct. 12, 1794, Anne Mead, and had: 
^ Bithynia, ^ Humphrey, '' Jabez, ^ Samuel M., 
and '' Benajah. 

6. ^ Jabez, b. in Greenwich, Conn., in 1767, d. in 
1859, m. Rachel Green, and had: ^ Harvey, 
■^ Solomon, ^ Wilbur, ^ Elias, ' Jonas, ^ Mary, 
and 7 Hannah. 

7. * Hannah, b. , m. May 6, 1798, Westover 
Miller of Suffield, Conn. No issue. 

8. ^ Joseph, b. , m. Sally Avery. No issue. 

9. ^Solomon, b. in 1774, d. April 10, 1813, m. 

Mary , removed to Genoa, N. Y., and had: 

' Hannah, ^ Polly, ^ William, and "^ Des- 
demona. 

4. s Mary, b. 

5. ^ Rebecca, b. 

6. s ^ b in 1727. 

7. '' Hezekiah, b. about 1698, d. at Jamaica in 1734-5, i^i* 
Mary , and had four children. 

FERRIS FAMILY. 

^Jeffrey Ferris bom in Leicestershire, England, 
about 1 610; came to America about 1634; made a freeman at 
Boston, May 6, 1635; removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut; 
and from there to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1641, and 
settled within the bounds of the present Town of Greenwich, 
where he died May 31, 1666. He married 1st, , died 

May 31, 1658, m. 2d, at Stamford, in 1659, Susannah, 



Ferris Family 537 

widow of Robert Lockwood, died Dec. 23, 1660, m. 3d, at 
Stamford, Judith, widow of Henry Palmer, afterwards the 
wife of John Bowers, died in 1667. Children, all by his first 
wife, ^ John, ^ Peter, ^ Joseph, ^ James, and ^ Mary, who 
married ist, Jonathan Lockwood, m. 2d, in 1696, Thomas 
Merritt of Rye, N. Y., all of age in 1666. (For the names of 
the sons, see Liber i, page 172, Greenwich Land Records.) 

1. ^ John, b. about 1634, removed to Throg's Neck, West- 
chester County, N. Y., about 1665, d. there March, 
1715, m. 1st, Mary, dau. of Robert Jackson, d. in 1704, 

m. 2d, Grace , d. at Flushing, L. L, Dec. 31, 17 16, 

and had : 

1. 3 Peter, b. , m. Susannah, dau. of Henry 
Fowler, and had: ''Gilbert, "Joshua, ''Jonathan, 
'♦ Caleb, and probably two daughters. 

2. 3 Mary, b. , m. Sept. 12, 1685, Nathaniel 
Underbill, Warden of the Borough of Westchester. 

3. 3 Samuel, b. , m. in 1699, Sarah, dau. of John 
Pickney. 

4. ^ James, b. , d. in 1746, m. Anna Sands of 
Sand's Point, and had: '' James, '' Martha, '' Mary, 
'' Elizabeth, '' Anne, '' Benjamin, '^ John, and 
" Mary. 

5. ^ Jonathan, b. , d. at Cortlandt Manor, N. Y., 
in 1753, no issue. 

6. 3 John, Id. , d. in 1729, m. Elizabeth . 

7. 3 Phebe, b. April 11, 1700, m. Edward Burling. 

8. 3 Martha, b. , m. Clark. 

9. 3 Sarah, b. , m. ist, Solomon Palmer, m. 2d, 
Oct. 8, 1 7 19, Samuel Harrison. 

10. 3 Hannah, b. Febt 12, , d. April 25, 1760, 

m. WilHam Mott, b. Jan. 20, 1674, d. June 30, 
1730, 

2. ^ Peter, b. about 1636, settled in Stamford, Conn., d. 
Sept. 28, 1706, m. ist, July 5, 1654, Elizabeth, dau. of 
John Reynolds, m. 2d, July 25, 1705, Mrs. Ruth Weed, 
and had by i st wife : 

I. 3 Joseph, b. June 20, 1657, d. about 1727, m. Mary 
Smith, d. in 1740, and had: 

1. '♦Joseph, b. March 21, 1688, d. , m. ist, 
Jan. 30, 1718, Mercy Buxton, d. May 24, 1718, 
m. 2d, Feb. 18, 1720, Deborah Crissy, d. May 
31, 1748, and had: 

1. s Deborah, b. May 30, 1722. 

2. s Mary, b. Sept. 29, 1723. 

3. s Hannah, b. in 1725, m. Messenger 
Palmer. 

2. ^ Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1690, m. Wood. 



538 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

3. "Nathan, b. Oct. 22, 1694, probably had: 
s Nathan, ^ Joseph, ^ Peter, and s David. 

4. 4 Samuel, b. Sept. 5, 1696, d. , m. Feb. 26, 
1729, Experience Crissy, and had: 

1. s Samuel, b. Oct. 17, 1730. 

2. ^ Sarah, b. April 14, 1732. 

3. s Nathaniel, b. May 15, 1733. 

4. s Ebenezer, b. Aug. 7, 1734, d. young. 

5. 5 Ebenezer, b. Nov. 17, 1735, m. Sept. 10, 
1760, Abigail Roe. 

5. 4 Elizabeth, b. March 19, 1699, m. in 1723, 
Joseph Purdy. 

6. 4 Abigail, b. April 13, 1701, m. in 1725, John 
Penoyer. 

7. '' Hannah, b. June 29, 170(4, m. Charles Thorp. 

8. ^ Deborah, b. Aug. 27, 1706, m. Joseph Husted. 

2. 3 Elizabeth, b. Nov. 28, 1658, d. May 2, 1660. 

3. 3 Peter, b. June 20, 1660, d. , m. ist, April 11, 
1706, Sarah Hait, d. Dec. 10, 1715, m. 2d, June 15, 
1 716, Mercy Hait, and had: 

1 . '' Peter, d. young. 

2. 4 Mary, b. March22, 1717. 

3. "Peter, b. June 22, 1719, d. July 3, 1719. 

4. 3 Mary, b. May 2, 1662. 

5. 3 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 2, 1664. 

3. ^Joseph, b. about 1638, one of the original patentees 
named in the patent granted to the Town of Greenwich 
by the General Assembly, May, 1665, d. in 1699, m. 
Sept. 20, 1657, Ruth, dau. of Nicholas Knapp, b. Jan. 5, 
1 641, and had: 

I. ^John, b. about 1658, m. Feb. 13, 1695, Abigail 
Haight of Norwalk, and had: 

I. " John, Jr., b. in 1696, m. Feb. 27, 1722, Sarah, 
dau. of Benjamin Mead, b. June 3, 1702, and 
had: 

1. s John, b. Nov. 7, 1723, m. Feb. 23, 1755, 
Ruth Brown, and had: 

I. ^ Mary, Id. April 5, 1756, and perhaps 
others. 

2. s Josiah, b. July 12, 1725, d. Dec. 16, 1770, 
m. I St, July 7, 1752, Abigail, widow of 
Jeremiah Ferris, m. 2d, Nov. 3, 1762, 
Mary, dau. of Eliphalet Peck, b. June 28, 
1743, and had by ist wife: 

I. ^ Oliver, b. Nov. 22, 1753, m. Feb. 10, 
1778, Abigail, dau. of Enos Lock- 
wood, and had: 

1. '' Sarah, b. July 8, 1779. 

2. ^ Elizabeth, b. Feb. 6, 1781. 



Ferris Family 



539 



3- 

4. 

5- 



3. ' Abigail, b. Feb. 24, 1785. 

4. '' Martha, d. young. 

5. '' Letta, b. April 16, 1792. 

6. ^ Benson, b. March 21, 1794. 

7. "> Mary, b. Aug. 24, 1802. 

2. ^ Sarah, b. March 3, 1756, d. Dec. 29, 

1759- 
By 2d wife: 

3. * Sarah, b. July 10, 1764. 

3. s Sarah, b. May 9, 1728. 

4. s Deborah, b. April 14, 1730. 

5. s Isaac, b. 

6. s Abraham, b. 

'' Peter, b. , m. Aug. 6, 1719, Mary Tucker,- 

and had : 



s Samuel, Jr., b 

, and had : 

^ Mary, b. 



Dec. 10, 1720, m. Mary 



^ EHzabeth, b. 

^ Sarah, b. 

^ Theodosia, b. 

^ Arzuba, b. 
s'Timothy, b. Nov. 3, 1722, d. in 1791, m. 
, and had : 

1. ^ Rebecca, b. 

2. * Josiah, b. 

3. ^ Hannah, b. 

4. ^ Lucy, b. 

5. ^Abraham, bapt. Oct. 13, 1765- 
5 Peter, b. April 21, 1726, removed to 
Crum Elbow, Dutchess County, N. Y.. 
s Mercy, b. May 8, 1727, 
s Daniel, b. Aug. 27, 1729. 

'^ Kezia, d. unm. 

" Elijah, 21 in 1739, m. Hannah , removed 

to Nine Partners, Dutchess County, N. Y.. 
4 Mindwell, b. , m. Aug. 15, 1729, Joseph 

Rundle. 



2. 3 Peter, b. Sept. 8, 1660, d. unm. Jan. 31, 1690. 

3. 3 James, Jr., b. about 1662, d. July, 1727, m. Rachel, 
widow of Nathaniel Mead, and had: 

1. '•Elizabeth, b. Dec. i, 1716. 

2. " James, b. March 22, 1720, and perhaps others. 

4. 3 Moses, b. about 1664, d. in 1748, m. Eunice , 

and had : 

1 . 4 Jonathan, b. , living in Greenwich, m 1 759. 

2. 4 David, b. , d. unm. in 1762. 

3. "Joseph, b. about 1698, d. before 1762, m. 
. and had : 



540 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



5 Joseph, b. Feb. 22, 1737. 
5 Jesse, b. Jan. 14, 1739. 
s Hannah, b. March 4, 1742. 
s David, b. March 4, 1742. 
s Jeremiah, b. Nov. 19, 1744. 
s EHzabeth, b. Dec. 21, 1746. 
s Jabez, b. Feb. 23, 1748. 
s WilHam, b. Jan. 30, 1750. 
5 Ezekiel, b. May 24, 1753. 

b. , living in Greenwich, 



"^ Moses, 

1757 

'• Joshua, b 
I 



m 



, and had : 
m. Hannah, dau. of 
and removed to Albany 



, removed to Dutchess 

, remained in Fairfield 

in Greenwich. 

, removed to Stamford. 



, m. 
s John, b. 
Elisha Mead, 
County, N. Y. 

2. ^ Reuben, b. 
County, N. Y. 

3. s Ebenezer, b. 
County. 

4. s Isaac, b. 

5. s Benjamin, b. 

6. 5 Ezra, b. 

6. "• Sarah, b. , m. Nathan Bishop. 

5. 3 Caleb, b. about 1679, d. in 1752, m. , and had : 

1. '' Joseph, b. , all twenty-one in 1761. 

2. 'I Eliphalet, b. 

3. '' Jabez, b. 

4. '' Pach, b., and perhaps some daughters. 

6. 3 Joseph, b. about 1683, d. April 7, 1733, m. Abigail 
, and had: 

I . " Jeremiah, b. , d. in 1748, m. Abigail , 

and had : 

1. s Jeremiah, b. , d. in 1794, m. Nancy 
Knapp, and had: ^Joseph, Jr., ^Abigail, 
^ Sarah, ^ Ruth, * Charles, and ^ Betsy. 

2. 5 Joshua, b. , d. in 1776, m. Mary, 
dau. of Captain John and Susan (Lock- 
wood) Johnson, after his death she m. 
Thomas Peck, and after his death she m. 
Nathaniel Ferris, and had by her ist 
husband : 

I. ^ Joshua, b. in 1775, d. Sept. 7, 1853, 
m. widow Letitia Lockwood, and 
had : ^ Letitia, ' Joshua Beal, ' Oliver 
L., ■'Susan, ^ Mary K., ^ Lucy H., 
7 William A., ^ Arthur, and 7 Addi- 
son. 



3. ^ Ruth, b. 



Mary, b. 



, m. Gideon Kimberly. 
m. Tediman Hull. 



Ferris Family 



541 



4. s Abigail, b. , m. Dr. Samuel Whiting. 

2. 4 Martha, b. Nov. 8, 1708, d. Nov. 6, 1797, m. 
Oct. 18, 1728, Benjamin Mead, b. March 18, 
1701, d. Oct. 22, 1783. 

3. 4 Deborah, b. , m. Thomas Youngs. 

4. "^ Abigail, b. 

5. "^ Sarah, b. 

6. "* Hannah, b. 

7. ■* Mary, b. 

8. 4 Mercy, b. 

3 Joshua, b. about 1666, d. unm. in 1746. 
3- Benjamin, b. about 1668, d. July 10, 1710, 
Sarah , and had : 

I. '•Benjamin, b. Sept. 22, 1709, d. in 1771, m. 
Nov. II, 1 73 1, Rhoda Ferris, and had; 



all of age in 1735. 



m. 



m. 



m. 



White. 
- Wood. 



9- 
10. 



II, 



^ Peter, b. 

s Rhoda, b. 

^ Sarah, b. 

^ Hannah, b. 

s Mary, b. 

5 Elizabeth, b 

^ Abigail, b. 

s Jonah, b. 

Finch. 

^ Hannah, b. , m. Jonathan Austin. 
^ Ruth, b. in 1662, d. Sept. 17, 1745, m 
1686, Samuel Peck, b. Jan. 18, 1659, d, 
1746. 
3 Lydia, b. , m. Reynolds 



m. Jan. 14, 1798, Rhoda 



Nov. 27, 
April 28, 



* James, b. about 1643, one of the original patentees 
named in the patent granted to the Town of Greenwich 
by the General Assembly, May, 1665, d. Nov. 6, 1726, 
m. Mary (see note in Lockwood Genealogy, page 



192), and had: 

I. ^'James, b. Dec. 18, 1699, d. Aug. 
1727, Mary , and had: 



1739, m. about 



" Mary, b. about 1728, d. March 24, 1804, m. 

Nov. 7, 1745, Samuel Peck, b. April, 1720, d. 

Jan. 29, 1773. 

4 Sarah, b. about 1730, m. in 1750, Jonas Mead, 

b. Dec. 25, 1723, d. Sept. 14, 1783. 

"James, b. about 1732, d. May 27, 1810, m. 

Mary , and had: 



I. 
2. 
3- 

4- 

5- 



5 Mary, b. 
s Sarah, b. 
s Hannah, 
Palmer, 
s James, b. 
s Asa, b. 



, m. Palmer. 

, m. Lockwood. 

b. , m. John Wood 

— , d. before 1812. 



542 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

6. ^ Abel, b. , m. Abigail Lockwood, b. 
Nov. 12, 1759. 

7, s Shadrach, b. , d. before 1816, m. 
Maria . 

4. '» Hannah, b. about 1734, d. unm. in 1752. 

5. '' Sylvanus, b. Aug. 10, 1737, (removed to Lew- 
isboro, N. Y.) m. Mary, dau. of Benjamin 
Mead, b. Sept. 29, 1743, and had: 

1. 5 Henry, b. 

2. ^ Sylvanus, b. 

3. 5 Gideon, b, 

4. s James, b. 

5. ^ Hannah, b. 

6. ^ Sarah, b. 

7. 5 Mary E., b. 

2. ^ Nathaniel, of Stanwich, b. March 31, 1702, d. in 

1764, m. Kezia , b. in 17 14, d. April 7, 1807, 

and had : 

1. ^ Mary, b. , m. Austin. 

2. '' Hannah, b. , m. Burrell. 

3. ^ Anne, b. , m. Palmer. 

4. '♦James, b. , d. before 1807. 

5. ''Nathaniel, b. May, 1744, d. Sept. 18, 1809, 
m. , and had: 

1. 5 Ebenezer, b. in 1766, d. July 23, 1813, 
unm. 

2. s Sarah, b. , m. John Chapman. 

3. s Oliver, b. in 1770, d. Dec., 1811, unm. 

4. 5 Mary Ann, b. , m. Levi Mead of 
North Castle. 

5. 5 Jemima, b. , m. James Palmer. 

6. 5 Nathaniel, b. in 1778, d. Aug. 3, 1799, 
unm. 

7. 5 James, b. in 1782, d. Feb. 8, 1807, unm. 

6. '* Gilbert, twenty-one in 1772, removed to 
Albany County, and from thence to Greene 
County, N. Y. 

7 . '• Samuel , b . removed to North Castle, N . Y . 

8. 't Ahasuerus, b. , twenty-one in 1772, 
removed to Cayuga County, N. Y. 

9. '' Lurana, b. , m. Jeremiah Chapman. 

10. "Solomon, b. in 1756, d. Feb. 18, 1820, m. 
Levina, b. in 1763, d. Jan. 12, 1835, and had: 
5 Solomon, ^ Andrew, ^ Joseph, ^ Lewis, ^ Ben- 
jamin, 5 Deborah, ^ Anna, ^ Levina, ^ Ruth, 
^ Clara, and ^ Amy. 

3. ^Samuel, b. Sept. 21, 1706, d. April 25, 1786, m. 
Ann, dau. of Gershom and Mary Lockwood, b. in 
1713. d. July 2, 1789, and had: 



Ferris Family 543 

1. -* Japhat, b. May 2, 1731, m. Hannah, dau. of 
Jeremiah Peck. 

2. ''Samuel, b. Feb. 18, 1733, d. Sept. 17, 1798, 
m. Susannah, dau. of EHphalet Peck, b. Feb. 
28, 1739. 

3. 4 Joseph, b. March 29, 1735, m. Ruth, dau. of 
Jeremiah Peck. 

4. '' Jeduthan, b. Feb. 22, 1737, d. June 23, 1809, 
m. Phebe, dau. of EHphalet Peck, b. June 8, 
1742, d. Sept. 29, 1798, and had: 

1. 5 Deborah, b. March 31, 1762. 

2. 5 Jeduthan, b. May 3, 1764, d. April 9, 
1831, m. Mary Lockwood, b. Nov. 12, 
1777, d. May 5, 1842, and had: 

1. ^ Isaac, b. Jan. 28, 1803. 

2. ^Joseph, b. Feb. 22, 1807. 

3. ^ Mary, b. Nov. 6, 1809. 

3. s Ethan, b. May 10, 1766, d. Jan. 3, 1833. 

4. s Phebe, b. March 8, 1769. 

5. s Anna, b. Nov. 26, 1771, 

6. s EHphalet, b. July 3, 1774. 

7. s Joseph, b. Sept. 20, 1776. 

8. ^ Andrew, b. Jan. 3, 1779. 

9. s Mary, b. Feb. 6, 1782. 
10. ^ John, b. March 6, 1784. 

5. ''Ann, b. Jan. 17, 1739, m. Daniel Whelpley. 

6. 4 Stephen, b. Dec. 27. 1740, d. Feb. 12, 1824,0. 
Sarah H. Lockwood, d. Nov. 23, 1848, and had: 

1. s Hannah, b. July 7, 1775, m. Rev. Jona- 
than Brown. 

2. s Mary, b. Nov. 12, 1777, m, Jeduthan 
Ferris. 

3. s Stephen, b. May 8, 1783, d. Aug. 25, 
1875, m. Elizabeth Dixon, b. May 20, 
1782, d. Dec. 6, 1876, and had: 
I. 6 John, b. June 23, 1805, d. July 3, 1896. 

* Stephen, b. Nov. 2, 1806, d. Sept. 25, 
1866. 
^ Hanford, b. June 21, 1808, d. April 3, 

1858. 

^ William Henry, b. July 14, 1810, d. 

Dec. 5, 1877. 

5. ^ David L., b. Oct. 3, 1813, d. June 
10, 1874. i 

6. ^ Sally Ann, b. Aug. 9, 1815, d. Sept. 
13, 1878. 

* Samuel H., b. Aug. 17, 1818. 
<* George A., b. March 30, 1824, d. 
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544 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

4. s Samuel, b. Jan. 25, 1787, d. June i, 1842, m. 
Jan. 7, 181 1, Esther, dau. of Nathaniel Ferris, 
b. Oct. 12, 1792, d. March 11, 1881, and 
had: 

1. ^Caroline, b. May 3, 1812, d. Feb. 22, 
1848, m. Oscar Keeler. 

2. * Susan, b. Oct. 13, 1813, d. Jan. 3, 1903, 
m. Benjamin Scofield. 

3. ^ Henrietta, b. Oct. 2, 1815, d. Aug. 25, 

1895, unm. 

4. ^Ann, b. Sept. 14, 1818, d. Feb., 1866, 
m. William M. Lockwood. 

5. ^Stephen K., b. March 28, 1820, d. Feb. 
12, 1905, m. ist, Mary Lockwood, m. 2d, 
Dec. 24, 1856, Adeline Ferris. 

6. ^ Sarah, b. Jan. 27, 1822, d. Oct. 7. 1856, 
m. Samuel Ferris. 

7. * Nathaniel H., b. Feb. 5, 1824, m. Mary 
Butler. 

8. ^ Mary W., b. Dec. 7, 1825, d. Oct. 5, 1898, 
unm. 

9. ^ Samuel H., b. Dec. 12, 1827, d. Dec. 25, 
1888, m. Dec. 19, 1861, Mary, dau. of 
Daniel Clark, b. April 16, 1838, d. Oct. 
15, 1886, and had: 

1. 7Harry B., A.B., M.D. 

2. 7 Clarence C, A.B., LL.B. 

10. * Luke H., b. May 25, 183c, d. in 
infancy. 

11. ^ Hannah H., b. May 8, 1832, d. Oct. 31, 
1897, m. Ebenezer Butler. 

12. ^ Child, d. in infancy. 

7. ''Mary, b. Feb. 28, 1743, d. in 1820, m. Captain 
George Peck, b. Jan. 4, 1743, d. in 1797. 

8. "Nathaniel, b. March 27, 1746, d. Aug. 6, 1823, 
m. Mary (Johnson) (Ferris) Peck, dau. of Cap- 
tain John and Susan (Lockwood) Johnson, and 
widow of Joshua Ferris, and also widow of Thomas 
Peck, d. April 30, 1833, and had: 

1. 5 Ann, b. July 7, 1785, m. her cousin Andrew 
Ferris, removed to 111. 

2. ^ John, b. March 27, 1787, m. Ruth Knapp, 
removed to 111. 

3. ^ Elizabeth, b. March 24, 1789, m. David 
Kimberly, removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. 

4. 5 George, b. March 4, 1791, m. Sally Peck, 
and had: ^ David, ^ Charles, ^ Andrew, ^ Wil- 
liam, ^ Catharine, ^ Mary, ^ Ann Maria, and 
^ Emeline. 




CLARENCE C. FERRIS, A.B., LL.B. 



Ferris Family 545 

5. s Esther, b. Oct. 12, 1792, d. March 11, 
1881, m. her cousin, Samuel Ferris, b. 
Jan. 25, 1787, d. June I, 1842. 

6. s Qi(ieon, b. Jan. 13, 1795, m. Caroline, 
dau. of Frederick and Hannah (Sackett) 
Betts, and had: 

1. ^Frederick A., b. Feb. 2, 1826, 
removed to the western part of New 
York, m. ist, Dec. 6, 1847, Mary J. 
Lockwood, d. May 3, 1858, m. 2d, 
Dec. 25, 1858, Laura W. Lockwood, 
both were daughters of Charles 
Lockwood. 

2. ^Caroline E., b. Nov, 14, 1827, m. 
Nov. 4, 1850, Charles Hendrie, b. 
May 8, 1828. 

3. ^ Gideon C, b. Sept. 9, 1828, removed 
to the western part of New York, d. 
Oct. I, 1898, m. April 19, 1852, 
Phebe, dau. of Joseph Selleck. 

4. ^Nathaniel B., b. Oct. 31, 1839, m. 
Oct. 12, 1864, Louisa, dau. of William 
and Mary Keeler. 

9. J* Hannah, b. in 1751, m. Captain Henry 
'Waring, b. in 1744, d. Nov. 6, 1830. 

4. 3 Mary, b. in 1708, m. Gershom Lockwood. 

5. 3 Hannah, b. Aug. 17, 1710, m. John Mead. 

5. ' Mary, b. about 1640, m. ist, Lieut. Jonathan Lock- 
wood, b. Sept. 10, 1634, in- 2d, in 1696, Thomas 
Merritt of Rye, N. Y. 

Zachariah Ferris of Stratford and Fairfield, Connecti- 
cut, was of an entirely different family. His will, dated Aug. 
14, 1 710, and probated at Fairfield, in 171 1, mentions his 
wife Sarah, and the following children: Zachariah, Samuel, 
Sarah, and Mary. 

FINCH FAMILY. 

^Abraham Finch, born in County York, England, 
about 1585, probably came to New England with Governor 
Winthrop, in 1630, and first settled in Watertown, Massa- 
chusetts; removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1634, 
where he died probably in 1638. His children were: ^ Abra- 
ham, ^ John, ^ Daniel, and perhaps, "" David. ^ Abraham 
Finch was killed at Wethersfield by the Indians, in 1637, 

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546 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



and left him surviving his widow, Dorothy, and one child 

3 Abraham, who died unmarried. 

^ Daniel Finch removed to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1641, 
and from there to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he died 
in March, 1667. He married ist, , m. 2d, Dec. 

25, 1657, ElizalDeth, widow of John Thompson of Fair- 
field, who survived him. His children by ist wife 
were: i. ^ Isaac, b. , d. before 1667, m. , 

and had: 

I. '' Abraham, b. 
2. 3 , wife of Roger Knapp. 

3.3 ^ wife of Joseph James. 

4. 5 , wife of Henry Castell. 

5. 3 ^ -^ife of John Sturges. 
By 2d wife : 

6. ' Nathaniel, b. in 1660, d. at Norwalk, Conn., in 
1720, m. Mary, dau. of William Hoadley of Bran- 
ford, Conn., and had: ''Samuel, ^Nathaniel, 
^ Lydia, '^ Daniel, and '' John. 

* John Finch, above referred to, removed to Stamford, Con- 
necticut, in 1 64 1, where he d. Sept. 5, 1657, inventory 
filed at Stamford, in 1658. From the records, it would 
seem that his children were : ^ Isaac, ^ Samuel, ^ Joseph, 
and 2 Martha. 
I. 3 Isaac, b. , d.in I702,m. ist,in i658,EHzabeth 

Bassett, m. 2d, Ann , d. Nov. 9, 1703, and 

had by i st wife : 

1. 4 John, b. Sept. 20, 1659, d. Nov. 7, 1747,5 ^' 
Sarah , and had : 

1. s John, b. June 28, 1720. 

2. s Nathaniel, b. April 29, 1722. 

3. s James, b. April 23, 1725. 

4. s Sarah, b. April 7, 1728. 

5. s Titus, b. Aug. 13, 1730. 

6. s Mary, b. Aug. 12, 1732. 

7. ■^ Hannah, b. 

8. 5 Ebenezer, b. 

9. s Peter, b. 
10. 5 Lydia, b. 

2. '' Isaac, b. April 12, 1662, d. , m. , and 

had: 

I. 5 Jacob, b. Feb. 24, 1706, and perhaps 
others. 

3. ^ Abraham, b. July 5, 1665, d. in 1708, m. , 

and had : 

I. s Isaac, b. , removed to Goshen, 

Orange County, N. Y., where he d. in 
1749- 



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547 



4. ^ Elizabeth, Nov. 14, 1669. 

5. ^ Martha, b. June 19, 1672. 
By 2d wife: 

6. '•Rebecca, b. March 17, 1683. 

7. ■* Sarah, b. Nov. 23, 1686. 

8. ''Jacob, b. Oct. 9, 1691, d. Feb. 15, 1702. 

9. '^ Benjamin, b. June 29, 1695, ^- April 18, 1717, 
Elizabeth Palmer, and had: 

1. 5 Anna, b. March 19, 1718. 

2. 5 Rebecca, b. Aug. 28, 1720, and perhaps 
others. 

3 Samuel, b. , d. April 23, 1698, m. Sarah , 

d. March 19, 1713, and had: 

I. "Samuel, b. , d. May 16, 1751, m. Sarah 



-, and had : 

5 Mary, b. March 2, 1693, d. before 1751, 
unm. 

^ Susannah, b. March 3, 1694, m. Isaac 
Bishop. 

s Sarah, b. Sept. 25, 1695, d. Jan. 23, 1715, 
unm. 

s Abigail, b. July 15, 1697, d. Jan. 23, 
1715, unm. 

s Hannah, b. March 23, 1701, m. Thomas 
Waterbury. 
s Martha, b. July 23, 1703, m. John Lewis. 

2. ■* Joseph, of Stamford, Conn., b. , d. Dec. 

18, 1752, m. Aug. 7, 1703, Abigail Seely, and 
had: 

1. s Joseph, b. Aug. 6, 1704, m. March 2, 
1733, Abigail Hunt, and had: 
I. 
2. 
3. ^ Joseph, b. Feb. 17, 1739, and perhaps 

others. 

2. s Benjamin, b. Oct. 8, 1707. 

3. 5 Elizabeth, b. Sept. 23, 1710. 

4. 5 Abigail, b. about 1712. 

5. s Martha, b. about 1715. 

6. 5 Lydia, b. about 1717. 

3. " Sarah, b. , m, Holly. 

4. " Martha, b. , m. Mead. 

5. " Susannah, b. , m. Seely. 

6. " Rachel, b. 

3 Joseph, b. , granted, March 23, 1664, a piece 

of meadow land at Mianus Neck, Town of Green- 
wich, d. in 1 7 14, m. Nov. 23, 16 — , Elizabeth 
Austin, and had: 
I. 4 Joseph, b. about 1675, d. in 1727, m. Eliza- 



^ Abigail, b. Jan. 20, 1734. 
^ Sarah, b. March 24, 1735, 



548 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



beth , who after his d. m. John Newman, 

and had : 

1. 5 Elizabeth, b. Feb. 27, 1703. 

2. s Nathaniel, b. Oct. 25, 1705, d. in 1776, 
m. Sept. 17, 1732, Hannah, dau. of 
Timothy Knapp, and had: 

1. ^Hannah, b. Oct. i, 1733, m. 

Knapp. 

2. ^ Annie, b. Sept. 7, 1736. 

3. ^Nathaniel, b. Oct. 22, 1738, d. 
April 21, 1823, m. March 23, 1778, 
Anna, dau. of Jonathan Hibbard, b. 
in 1746, d. Jan. 12, 1827, and had: 
I. ''Hannah, b. Dec. 22, 1778, d. 

July 2, 1785. 

■^ Nathaniel, b. Aug. 2, 1780, d. 

Jan. 26, 1812. 

■^ Zabud, b. July 19, 1782, d. Jan. 

11, 1857. 
4. 7 Sophia, b. in 1785, d. July 8, 

1834, m. Mead. 

7 David, b. July 3, 1787, d. Dec. 

12, 1798. 

4. ^Timothy, b. Aug. 2, 1742, d. , 

m. 1st, Ruth, dau. of Jonathan Hib- 
bard, d. Sept. 18, 1 761, m. 2d, June 
16, 1763, Rebecca Waring, and had 
by 2d wife : 

1. 7 Timothy, b. March 3, 1764. 

2. 7 Rebecca, b. Jan. 30, 1766. 

3. 7 Jonathan, b. Aug. 28, 1767. 

4. 7 Ruth, b. Feb. 18, 1769. 

5. 7 Joseph, b. April i, 1771. 

6. 7 Mary, b. Jan. 16, 1772. 

7. 7 Rhoda, b. Nov. 20, 1774. 

8. 7 Nathaniel, b. Jan. 12, 1776. 

9. 7 Joel, b. Feb. i, 1778, d. Feb. 8, 
1778. 

10. 7 Joel, b. May 27, 1780. 

11. 7 James, b. Feb. 4, 1782. 

12. 7 jared, b. Nov. 24, 1785. 

5. ^ Caleb, b. Sept. 7, 1744, d. in 1783, 
m. Mabel , and had : 

1. 7 Caleb, b. about 1767. 

2. 7 Lewis, b. about 1769. 

3. 7 Andrew, b. about 1771. 

4. 7 Jemima, b. about 1773. 

6. ^ Titus, b. Jan. 30. 1748, d. in 1796. 

7. ^ EHzabeth, b. about 1750. 



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549 



8. ^ Abraham, b. about 1752. 

9. ^Andrew, b. about 1755. 

3. 5 Joseph, b. Sept. 16, 1709. 

4. 5 Ezekiel, b. June 11, 1712. 

5. 5 Ebenezer, b. Dec. 8, 1714. 

6. s Hannah, b. March 10, 1716. 
5 Jabez, b. Feb. 8, 1718. 
s Abigail, b. March 9, 1721. 

2. '* Samuel, Lieut., b. about 1677, granted, March 
21, 1 70 1, nine acres of land at Horseneck, 
Town of Greenwich, d. in 1728, m. Mary, dau. 
of Samuel Marshall, probably removed to 
Westchester County, N. Y. 

3. ''Jonathan, b. about 1679, granted, Aug. 23, 
1700, a parcel of land in the Town of Green- 
wich, married, probably removed to West- 
chester County, N. Y. 

4. ''Benjamin, b. about 1682, d. in 1741, m. ist, 
April 16, 1717, Elizabeth Palmer, m. 2d, Dec. 
23, 1727, Susannah Peet, and had by ist wife: 

1. s Anna, b. March 19, 1718. 

2. s Rebecca, b. Aug. 28, 1720. 
By 2d wife : 

3. s Elizabeth, b. in 1728. 

5. '' Daughter, m. Joseph Reynolds. 

6. '' Elizabeth, m. Whitney. 

7. '' Sarah, b. 

8. '' Daughter, m. Jonathan Mead. 
3 Martha, m. John Green. 

The following family should come in somewhere : 

Isaac, b. , m. Aug. 2, 1787, Hannah Rundle, 

removed to Genoa, N. Y., and had: 

1. Reuben, b. 

2. Isaac, b. , removed to Michigan. 

3. Ezekiel, b. 

4. Hardy R., b. , remained in Western 
N. Y. 

5. Gilbert P., b. at Genoa, N. Y., June 30, 

1799, removed to Greenwich, Conn., in 
1806, d. Dec. I, 1878, m. ist, Dec. 22, 
1822, Frances Ceceha Mead, b. Dec. 16, 
1804, d. May 26, 1826, m. 2d, April 8, 
1827, Althea Peck, b. May 15, 1803, d. 
Aug. 26, 1877, and had: 
I. Hannah R., b. Dec. 17, 1823, m. 
Isaac Howe of Savannah, Ohio. 



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550 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Thomas S., b. Nov. 5, 1825, of Stan- 
ton, Michigan. 

Hester A., b. Jan. 31, 1828, m. 
WilHam M. Mead of Oberlin, Ohio. 

Frances C, b. Dec. 17, 1829, m. H. L. 
Ferris. 

Gilbert P., b. Oct. 27, 1831, of Amboy, 
111. 

Althea P., b. April 23, 1834, m. 
Leander Mead. 

Laban, b. March 26, 1836, d. at 
Springfield, Mo. 

Rebecca K., b. May 16, 1838, m. 
Theodore Lyon of Greenwich, Conn. 

Silas, b. Oct. 4, 1839, m. Nov, 11, 
1863, Henrietta L., dau. of Hon. 
Cornelius and Grace (Mead) Minor 
of New York, b. Oct. 10, 1844. 

David I., b. June 2, 1841, Co. I, loth 
Regiment, C. V. I., d. at Peoria, 111., 
May 12, 1897. 

Jared, b. April 22, 1843, Co. I., loth 
Regiment, C. V. I., m. ist, Oct. 17, 
1866, Hannah B., dau. of Elkanah 
and Jane (Mead) Mead, b. Dec. 23, 
1844, d. Jan. II, 1871, m. 2d, 
Rebecca G. June. 

Mary E., b. Sept. 16, 1845, d. young. 
Hannah R., b. 
Silas, d. young. 



10. 



II 



12 



Nathan Finch, who lived and died in the Parish of Stan- 
wich, Greenwich, Conn., should come in here somewhere. 
Among his children was Jonathan, b. Nov. 30, 1750, d. at 
Stanwich, April 25, 1836. Jonathan was the father of 
Reuben, b, July 19, 1772. 

For the genealogy of this family, see the Finch Family, 
by Franklin Couch, LL.B., published in 1907. 

GREEN FAMILY, 



Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance of 

Robert B. Miller, editor of the Lyon Memorial, 

New York Families, published in 1907. 

^JOHN Green, bom in England, about 1610, settled in 
New Haven, Connecticut, before 1650, where he had a son 



Green Family 551 

John, bom in 1651; removed to Stamford, Connecticut, 
before 1654, where his wife, Mary, died Sept. 14, 1657. He 
married, 2d, in 1658, Martha Finch, was representative to 
the General Assembly in 1669, and from the records appears 
to have had: ^'John, == Joseph, "Benjamin, and perhaps others. 

I. "John, of Stamford, b. in 1651, d. in 1728, m. Abigail 
, and had : 

1. ^ Samuel, b. May 1, 1694. 

2. 3 David, b. Feb., 1700, m. at North Castle, N. Y., 
Sept., 1737, Kerrenhappuck June, and had: 

1. 4 Martha, b. Feb. 15, 1738. 

2. " Abigail, b. May 15, 1740. 

3. '* Sarah, b. March 30, 1743. 

3. 3 Jonathan, b. May, 1702. 

2. =« Joseph, of Stamford, b. , d. July 15, 1710, m. 

Elizabeth , d. in 1721, and had: 

1. 3 Mary, b. May 30, 1681, m. April 10, 1707, John 
Perry. 

2. 3 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 5, 1683, m. Feb. 4, 1714, John 
Drew. 

3. 3 "vVaitstill, b. Nov. 26, 1685, m. April 10, 1707, 
David Waterbury, b. Jan. 24, 1684. 

4. 3 Joseph, b. Jan. 20, 1687, m. June 10, 1712, Sarah 
Brown, and had : 

1. 4 , b. Aug. 3, 1713. 

2. " Elizabeth, b. Sept. 25, 1718. 

5. 3 John, b. Sept. 22, 1691, m. Nov. 7, 1717, Sarah 
Crissy, b. April, 1694. 

6. 3 Mercy, b. April, 1694, m. Oct. i, 1723, Benjamin 
Bunnell. 

7. 3 Nathaniel, b. Sept. 11, 1697, m. Feb. 16, 1722, 
Elizabeth Frost of Fairfield, and had: 

1. '• Nathaniel, b. Oct. i, 1725. 

2. ^ Daniel, b. Nov. 23, 1728. 

3. "Elijah, b. Feb. 16, 1731. 

4. '• Isaac, b. July 17, 1734. 

3. ' Benjamin, of Stamford, b. , d. March 6, 1726, m. 

1st, April 10, 1683, Susan Roberts, d. Nov. 8, 1694, m* 

2d, March 26, 1696, Hester Clements, d. April 8, , 

m. 3d, Feb. 13, 1713, Mary Holmes, and had by ist 
wife: 

1. 3 Sarah, b. April 19, 1684, m. Joseph Lockwood, 

2. 3 phebe, b. July 8, 1686, m. John Smith, d. Nov. 3, 
1711. 

3. 3 Lucretia, b. July 20, 1690, d. before 1727. 

4. 3 Benjamin, b. Nov. 5, 1693, m. July 2, 1730, 
Rebecca Weed, and had: 

I. 4 Benjamin, b. March 7, 1731, d. young. 



552 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



2. 't Abraham, b. Sept. 15, 1734. 

3. 4 Amos, b. Feb. 18, 1740, m, Sept. 17, 1770, 
Rebecca, dau. of Nathan Brown, and had: 

1, 5 Betsy, bapt. Feb. i, 1775. 

2. s Nathan, bapt. Feb. 15, 1776. 

4. 4 Elliot, b. March 18, 1743, d. Nov. 8, 1778, m. 
April 22, 1766, Mercy Seely, and had: 

1. s Abraham, b. Oct. 26, 1766. 

2. s Elliot, b. Dec. 23, 1767. 

3. 5 William, b. Aug. 3, 1769. 

4. s Mercy, h. April 19, 1771. 

5. 5 Hannah, b. Jan. 13, 1773. 
. 6. s Sarah, b. Dec. 23, 1774. 

7. 5 John, b. Jan. 23, 1777. 

8. 5 Amos, b. Jan. 9, 1779, m. April, 1798, 
Esther Grumman. 

By 2d wife : 

5. 3 Hester, b. Dec. 19, 1696, m. Nathan Smith. 

6. 3 Deborah, b. April 25, 1701, m. Oct. i, 1719, John 
Dann. 

7. 3 Joanna, b. March 14, 1703, m. Daniel Wheaton. 

8. 3 Ebenezer, b. March 18, 1705. 

9. 3 Nathan, b. Dec. 3, 1706. 

10. 5 Reuben, b. Jan. 25, 1709, bought land in the Town 
of Greenwich, Aug. 6, 1731, d. in 1771, m. Sept. 19, 
1731, Mary, dau. of John and Mary (Brundage) 
Merritt, and had : 

1. 't Esther, b. in 1733, d. Dec. i, 1805, m. May 26, 
1 75 1) Jonathan Coe. 

2. 4 Mary, b. about 1735, d. before 1771, m. Dr. 
Edward Huggeford. 

3. ''Reuben, b. about 1737, d. before 1771, m. 
, and had : 

I . ^ Betty, and perhaps others. 

4. ''John, b. Feb. 14, 1740, d. July 28, 1816, m. 
in 1767, Mary, dau. of Abraham and Mary 
(Lyon) Miller, b. in 1746, d. Sept. 15, 1831, 
and had : 

1. s Mary, b. July 31, 1769, d. Sept. 18, 1856, 
m. Thomas Green. 

2. ssarah, b. in 1771, d. May I, 1776. 

5. " Phebe, b. about 1742, d. in 1784, unm. 

6. 4 James, b. , d. Jan. 23, 1828, m. 

1st, Martha , d. April 25, 1795, m. 2d, 

Susannah, dau. of Lewis and Martha Marvin, 
and widow of James Lyon, and had by ist 
wife: 

I. ^ James, b. Nov. 30, 1760, d. July 6, 1842, 
m. Mary, dau. of Joseph and Eunice 



Green Family 553 

(Brown) Willson, and widow of Samuel 
Brown, b. March 27, 1755, d. Nov. 17, 
1838, no issue. 

2. s Thomas, b. Nov. 6, 1762, d. Aug. 7, 1834, 
m. Mary, dau. of John and Mary (Miller) 
Green, b. July 31, 1769, d. Sept. 18, 1856, 
no issue. 

3. s Reuben, b. Oct. 26, 1764, d. March 20, 
1847, m. Glorana, dau. of David Willson, 
b. Jan. 7, 1779, d. June 23, 1869, and had: 
^ * Nancy, b. May, 1806, d. Aug. 20, 

1880, m. James Merritt. 

^ Reuben, b. , m. Ann Eliza 

Miller. 

^Elizabeth, b. , m. Lawrence 

Wessels. 

^Thomas, b. May 25, 1815, d. May 

6, 1882, m. Amanda V. Willson. 

5. ^ Susan, b. , m. Henry B. Grigg. 

6. ^ James, b. , m. Alice Peck. 

4. s Joseph, b. Feb. 15, 1768, d. Dec. 31, 
1836, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel and 
Rebecca (Sherwood) Merritt, b. March 
22, 1775, d. April 12, 1843, and had: 

^ Mary, b. May, 1792, d. Aug. 3, 

1866, m. Joseph Taylor. 

^ Merritt, b. June 20, 1795, d. Jan. 2, 

1813. 

^ Sarah, b. Dec. 28, 1796, d. March 4, 

i860, m. James Willson. 

^ Cynthia, b. April 30, 1800, d. Jan. 

4. 1863. 

^ Ebenezer M., b. April, 1804, d. May 

14, 1805. 

^Rebecca M., b. Aug. 26, 1807, d. 

March 2, 1885. 
s Benjamin, b. Oct. 24, 1774, d. Aug. 11, 
1840, m. 1st, Deborah Lawrence, b. May 
8, 1789, d. March 10, 1832, m. 2d, Eunice, 
dau. of Peter and Eunice (Lyon) Husted, 
b. June 21, 1784, d. March 15, 1876, and 
had by ist wife: 

1. ^ George W., b. Jan. 10, 1810, d. Dec. 
16, 1851, m. Camilla Brown. 

2. *^ Abraham L., b. Oct. 31, 181 1, d. 
July 31, 1902, m. Aug. 20, 1834, 
Sally M., dau. of Joseph Taylor, b. 
May 17, 1813, d. Aug. 6, 1888, and 
had: ^ Malvina, ^ Joseph, ^ Lawrence, 



554 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

^Valentine, ^Nerval, 'George B., 
^ Phillipine, ' Emma, ' Erner, ' Her- 
7 man, ' Phillipine, ' Louisa, and 
7 Lillie. 

3. ^ William H., b. Aug. 30, 1815, d. 
March 25, 1857, unm. 

4. 6 Charles B., b. July 25, 1818, d. 
Sept. 2, 1818. 

5. ^Benjamin F., b. Sept. 17, 1820, m. 
Nov. 16, 1 84 1, Mary Green. 

6. ^ Charles E., b. Nov. 23, 1822. 

7. ^ Thomas, b. Nov. 24, 1826. 

8. ^DeWitt C, b. Feb. 28, 1829, m. 
Abigail Husted. 

9. ^Deborah L., b. Feb. 11, 1831, m. 
Benjamin F. Hyatt. 

6. 5 Sarah, b. June, 1777, d. Aug. i, 1865, m. 
Jotham Willson. 

7. 5 Nancy, b. Feb. 10. 1779, d. Sept. 20, 

1866, m. Peter Husted. 

7. "Caleb, b. in 1747, d. in 1832, m. ist, Mary, 

-, m. 2d, Abigail , and had: 

I. 5 Qaleb, b. Sept. 30, 1764, and perhaps 
others. 

8. 4 Elizabeth, b. 

II. ^Charles, of Greenwich, b. April 25, 1710, d. in 
1800, m. Rachel , and had: 

1. 4 Charles, b. , removed to North Castle, 

N. Y., d. in 1814, m. Thankful , and had: 

s Reuben, ^ Elizabeth, ^ Abraham, ^ Nathan, 
and 5 Elisha. 

2. '* Benjamin, b. 

3. '' Phebe, b. , m. Winas Palmer. 

4. ^ Millerson, b, , m. Joseph Reynolds. 

5. "* Daughter, b. , m. Caleb Ackerly. 

John Green of Fairfield, Connecticut, who married 

Hannah , was of an entirely different family. He died 

intestate in Fairfield about 1703, leaving him surviving, 
John and Hannah. John, the younger, removed to Goshen, 



HENDRIE FAMILY. 

'William Hendrie, bom in the Broom of Moy, 
Parish of Dike, Scotland, Dec. 11, 1745, settled in the Town 
of Greenwich, some time before the Revolutionary War, and 



Hendrie Family 555 

died there Oct. 21, 1804, married Hannah, dau. of Theophilus 
and Hannah (Close) Lockwood, some say, dau. of Gershom 
and Ann (MilHngton) Lockwood, b. Aug. 26, 1750, d. Aug. 
23, 1837, and had: 

1 . ^ Mary, b. 

2. ^ Jane, b. , m. William Reed. 

3. ^ Isabelle, b. 

4. ^ Amy, b. , m. Silas Hobby. 

5. ^ David, b. , d. unm. 

6. "" Alexander, b. April 3, 1789, d. at Waterford, 0,, Dec. 
I7» 1859, m. Dec. 31, 1809, Letitia, dau. of Eliakim 
Ford of Sound Beach, Conn., d. at Pacific City, la., 
about 1884. 

7. == Charles, Captain, b. Aug. 26, 1790, d. Oct. 8, 1873, m. 
1st, Nov. 16, 1 81 8, Hannah Maria, dau. of John and 
Letitia Lockwood, b. Nov. 29, 1793, d. March 19, 1849, 
m. 2d, Oct. 12, 1850, Sarah Ann Lounsbury, b. Dec. 10, 
1818, d. Sept. 25, 1875, and had by ist wife: 

1. 3 Letitia L., b. Oct. 15, 1819, d. Sept. 12, 1836, unm. 

2. 3 johnW.,b. Nov. 18, i82i,unm.,d. Nov. 25, 1900. 

3. 3 Hannah M., b. Nov. 20, 1823, d. Nov. 6, 1826. 

4. 3 Ameha A., b. April 6, 1826, m. George D. Louns- 
bury, removed to Painesville, O. 

5. 3 Emily J., b. April 6, 1826. 

6. 3 Charles, b. May 8, 1828, m. Nov. 4, 1850, Caroline 
E., dau. of Gideon and CaroHne (Betts) Ferris, by 
whom he had: " WilHam A., ^ Gideon F., " Caroline 
E., 4 Mary L., ^ Clinton, " Charles F., and ^ Emma 
Jane. 

7. 3 Joshua Beale, b. April 19, 1830, m. Sarah E. New- 
man, by whom he had: ^ Charles W., " Sarah E., 
4 Lucy, and '' Anna M. 

8. 3 James A., b. May 31, 1834. 
By 2d wife : 

9. 3 Hannah M., b. March 7, 1852, d. April 8, 1857. 

10. 3 Emma J., b. Oct. 22, 1853, d. April 6, 1857. 

11. 3 Mary A., b. Oct. 29, 1855, d. April 21, 1857. 

12. 3 Hannah M., b. Oct. 28, 1857. 

HOBBY FAMILY. 

The first of the Huby, Hubbe, Hoby, or Hobby family to 
settle in Greenwich, Old Town, was ^ John Hobby, some 
time prior to 1659. The first authentic account that can be 
obtained of him anywhere in the New England Colonies is 
on the eleventh day of October, 1659, when he testified before 



556 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

the Magistrate's Court at New Haven, in reference to a 
horse detained by George Slawson of Stamford, Connecticut. 
He might have been at Newtown, Long Island, in 1656. He 
was one of the original patentees named in the patent granted 
to the Town of Greenwich by the General Assembly in May, 
1665. He was born about 1632, probably in England, died 
at Greenwich, Connecticut, in May, 1707, and married 
about 1655, wife unknown, and had: 

1. ' John, b. about 1657, d. March 12, 1693, unm. 

2. ' Thomas, b. about 1660, d. Aug. 6, 1742, m. Rebecca 
, and had: 

I. 3 John, b. about 1693, d. in 1759, m. March 16, 1716, 
Hannah, dau. of Ebenezer Mead, b. about 1698, 
and had : 

1. ■* John, b. Jan. 18, 1717, d. Dec. 11, 1726. 

2. "^ Hannah, b. Nov. 11, 1719, m. John Adding- 
ton. 

3. '' Rebecca, b. March 30, 1721. 

4. '' Thomas, Colonel, b. Jan. 6, 1723, an officer in 
the Continental Army, d. July 30, 1798, m. ist, 

, m. 2d, before 1787, Rebecca, widow of 

Daniel Merritt, and had by ist wife: 

I, s Thomas, b. June 15, 1745, d. Oct. 20, 
1 801, m. 1st, Hannah, dau. of Isaac 
Holmes, m. 2d, April 21, 1777, Clemence, 
dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Knapp) Hobby, 
b. in 1753, d. Oct. 13, 1829, and had by ist 
wife: 

1. ^ Nancy, b. Jan. 14, 1767, d. May 26, 
1856, m. Matthew Mead, b. May 18, 
1767, d. June 6, 1851. 

2. ^Thomas, b. Aug. i, 1770, d, at 
Utica, N. Y., in 1852, m. Mary 
Ferris. 

Probably by 2d wife : 

3. ^ Clemence, m. Marshall. 

4. ^ Stephen, b. 

5. ^ Caleb, b. 

6. ^ Joseph, b. Jan. 21, 1778. 

7. ^ Amos, b. 

8. ^ Walter, b. 

9. ^ Sally, m. Avery. 

10. ^ Betsy, m. Mead. 

11. ^ Molly, m. Adams. 

12. ^ Jabez M., Jr., b. July 21, 1780, d. 

Dec. 14, 1834, m. Jerusha , b. in 

1791, d. June 12, 1814, hadadau., 
' Jerusha, who m. Jabez Mead. 



Hobby Family 



557 



2. sjabez M., b. in 1757, d. Dec. 
m. Abigail , b. in 1763, d. 



23, 1823, 
June 16, 



3. 
4. 
5- 
6. 

7. 

8. 

' 9. 
10. 



2. 

3- 
4- 



^ Nancy, m. Charles Peck. 
^ Mary, m. Nehemiah Mead. 



1847, and had: 

I, 

2. 

3. 5 Mary, b. 

4. s Sarah b. 

5. s Hezekiah, b. in 1760, d. Nov. 13, 1837, 
m. Elizabeth, dau. of General John Mead, 
b. Jan., 1764, d. June, 1824. (See Mead 
Genealogy, page 188.) 

5. 4 Sarah, b. Dec. 28, 1724, d. young. 

6. 4 Rachel, b. Dec. 21, 1726, m. Daniel Banks. 

7. 4 Susannah, b. Feb. 7, 1728, m. James Barber. 

8. 4 Martha, b. Jan. 12, 1730, m. 

9. 4 Abigail, b. March 30, 1732, m. WilHam Edgit. 

10. " Sarah, b. May 11, 1735, m. Jabez Mead, Jr. 

11. 4 Phebe, b. Sept. 11, I737- 

12. 4 John, Captain, b. Nov. 4, 1739. kept a tavern 
dtuing the Revolutionary War, about opposite 
Sherwood Place, Borough of Greenwich, d. at 
Utica, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1812, m. Clarissa Holmes, 
and had : 
I. s John, b. about 1766, removed to Oneida 

County, N. Y. 

s Epenetus, b. about 1768, do. 
s Elkanah, b. about 1770, do. 

s Martin, b. about 1773. 
s Clarissa, b. about 1776, m. John Horton, 
Jr., of White Plains. 

s Sarah, b. about 1779, m. Obadiah Banks, 
s Rachel, b. about 1782, d. young. 
3 Rebecca, b. , m. ist, about 1717, Thomas 

Lyon, m. 2d, about 1733. Samuel Banks. 
3 Martha, b. , m. Oct. 29, 1718, Charles 

Thomas. 
^. 3 Susannah, b. , m. Isaac Mead. 

^ Elizabeth, b. about 1662, m. Ebenezer Prindle. 
* Hannah, b. about 1664, m. Cornelius Burnham. 
^ Martha, b. about 1666, m. Thomas Morehouse, Jr. 
^^ Rebecca, b. about 1669, m. Nov. 18, 1686, Samuel 
Hardy. ^^^ ^^ , 

== Mary, b. about 1670, m. Nov. 18, 1686, Stephen 

Holmes. 

^ Benjamin, b. about 1675, d. in 1744, unm. 

^ Rachel, b. about 1678, m. Henry James. 

Monathan, b. about 1682, d. , m. Dec. 12, 171 1, 

Sarah dau. of Ebenezer Mead, b. about 1696, and. had: 

I. 3 Jonathan, b. Oct. 6, 1714, d. in 1799, m. m :I733, 



2. 

3- 
4- 
5- 

6. 

7- 



558 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Deborah, dau. of Thomas and Abigail (Ogden) 
Lyon, b. about 1715, d. in 1802, and had: 

1. 4 Deborah, b. Dec. 9, 1733, m. Jan. 24, 1757, 
Ebenezer, son of Thomas Brown, 

2. "Abigail, b. Sept. 23, 1736, m. Elijah Mead. 

3. " Amy, b. Dec. 4, 1737, m. Joel Reynolds. 

4. "Jonathan, b. Dec. 28, 1739, d. at Lanesboro, 
Mass., Aug., 1795, m. Hannah, dau. of Caleb 
and Hannah (Rundle) Mead, b. March 13, 

1739- 

5. " Mary, b. Jan. 23, 1741, m. Caleb Mead, b. in 

1737- 

6. " Infant, b. and d. Dec. 20, 1743. 

7. "Elizabeth, b. in 1744, m. Stephen Mead, b. 
March 2, 1741. 

8. " David, b. about 1747, d. at Greenwich before 
1804, m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Seymour, 
and had : 

1. s David, b. Feb. 3, 1769. 

2. s Drake, b. Feb. 5, 1771. 

3. s Jonathan, b. Feb. 17, 1782. 

4. s Seymour, b. 

5. s William, b. 

6. s Alfred, b. 

7. ^ Harvey, b. 

8. 9, and 10. ^ Daughters. 

2. 3 Joseph, Captain, b. Dec. 23, 1716, d. ,m. Aug. 

20, 1740, Sarah, dau. of Caleb and Clemence 
(Mills) Knapp, b. Jan. 3, 1717, and had: 
I. " Joseph, b. July 10, 1741, d. , m. in 1760, 

Eunice, dau. of David and Rachel Knapp, b. 

July 20, 1744, d. Sept. 2, 1799, and had: 

1. 5 Abraham, b. Jan. 23, 1761, d. Dec. 24, 
1803, m. Dec. 16, 1779, Mary Mead. 

2. shammy (Tamar), b. Aug. 5, 1763, d. 
April 20, 1814, m. Shadrach Mead, b. Jan. 

15, 1758. 

3. s Bethia, b. Jan. 17, 1766, d. April 20, 1814. 

4. 5 Eunice, b. Jan. 17, 1768, d. Feb. 26, 1813, 
m. Titus Mead, b. Nov. 26, 1759, d. Aug. 
18, 1811. 

5. s Elizabeth, b. March 5, 1770, d. June 27, 
1806, m. Jabez Mead. 

6. s Orpha, b. July 11, 1772, d. in i860, m. 
Caleb Mead, 4th. 

7. 5 Sarah, b. Nov. 30, 1774, d. Feb. 22, 1777. 

8. s Sarah, b. Jan. i, 1777, d. May 22, 1821. 

9. 5 Joseph, b. May 8, 1779, d. July 28, 1803. 
10. s Mills, b. July 21, 1781, d. Sept. 2, 1798. 



Hobby Family 559 

11. s Francis, b. Oct. i, 1783, d. Feb. 18, 1861, 
unm. 

12. sAnnis, b. March 12, 1786, d. Nov. 20, 
1863, m. Jonathan Hobby, b. Feb. 17, 1782. 

13. s Charlotte, b. Aug. 21, 1788, d. Oct. 30, 
1836. 

2. 4 David, Colonel, of North Castle, N. Y., b. 
Dec. 13, 1743, d. Feb. 27, 1812, m. Sarah 
Knapp,b.Nov., 1743, d. July, "22 1822, and had: 

1. 5 Jonathan, b. May 21, 1761, d. Oct. 3, 

1796, m. Vashti , b. in 1763, d. Nov. 

22, 1839, and had: ^ Guy B., ^ Anna, and 
^ Lydia. 

2. s David, b. in 1768, d. Dec. 3, 1829, m. 

Anna , b. in 1772, d. Jan. 6, 1852, 

and had: <> David R., "^ Maria, <* Harriet 
P., ^Rachel R., ** EHza Ann, ^Jonathan, 
^ Josephus, and ^ William K. 

3. s Lydia A., b. Nov. 20, 1769, d. June 20, 
1864, m. Edward Lockwood. 

4. 5 Sarah, b. , m. Ebenezer Fitch. 

3. 4 Caleb, b. March 12, 1746, d. , m. Eliza- 
beth, dau. of David and Rachel Knapp, 
removed to Salem, N. Y. 

4. 4 Sarah, b. June 5. I748, m. Aug. 8, 1774, 
Stephen Knapp. 

5. 4 Mary, b. July 5. I75i, d. Feb. 19, 1810, m. 

6. 4 Clemence, b. in I753. d. Oct. 13, 1829, m. 
Thomas Hobby, b. June 15, I745- 

7. 4 Amy, b. about 1756. 

8 " Mills, b. about 1759, d. June 22, 1802, m. 
Ruth Holmes, d. March 29, 1822, and had: 

1. s Jotham, b. Dec. i, 1784, went West. 

2. s Jemima, b. May i , 1786, d. Oct. 12, 1863, 
m. April 29, 1807, Dr. Thomas Close. 

3. s Amy, b. May 19, 1788, d. Feb. 21, 1870, 
m. Aaron Husted. 

4. 5 Silas, b. March 8, 1790. d. , m. Oct. 
9, 181 1, Ann Hendrie, and had: <* Jane 
H., 6 William, <* Harriet H., and four 
more children who d. young. 

5. s Marilda, b. Jan. 8, 1792, d. Feb. 10, 1810, 
unm. 

6. s Lewis H., b. July 12, 1794, d. Oct. 28, 
1863, m. ist, Abigail Morgan, and had: 
^ Moses Morgan, m. 2d, Lucretia Van 
Duzen, and had: ^ George T. 

7 s Mary, b. July 28, 1796, d. July 7, 1823, 



56o Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



m. April 27, 1818, Joseph Ingersoll, b. 
July 3, 1787, d. Dec. 12, 1862. 

8. s Sarah, b. Dec. 21, 1798, d. Feb. 4, 1876, 
m. Theophilus Peck. 

9. s Mills, b. March 19, 1801, d. Jan. 18, 
1820, unm. 

9. ''Amos, b. , d. Dec. 11, 1787, m. Sarah, 

dau. of Benjamin and Amy Hobby, b. Nov. 8, 
1768. 
10. 4 Jemima, b. May 25, 1768, m. in 1785, Ben- 
jamin Holmes. 

^Ebenezer, b. Feb. 8, 1719, d. in 1799, m. Mary 

, and had : 

1. '' Ebenezer, b. 

2. "^ Caleb, b. 

3. "• Jonathan, b, 

4. ^ David, b. 

5. '' Mary, b. , m. Andrew Marshall, Jr. 

3 Benjamin, b. in 1721, d. in 1796, m. ist, , m. 

2d, Feb. 25, 1762, Amy (Knapp) Mead, widow of 
Ebenezer Mead, and dau. of Caleb and Clemence 
(Mills) Knapp, and had: 

1. ''Benjamin, b. June 4, 1763, d. in 1813, m. 
Rhoda, dau. of Samuel Seymour, and had: 

1. s Philander, b. 

2. 5 Benjamin, b. 

3. 5 Nehemiah B., b. 

4. 5 Amy, b. 

5. ^ Samuel S., b. 

6. s Abigail J., b. 

2. ''Amy, b. Oct. 3, 1764, m. Andrew Mead. 

3. ■* Squire, b. April 6, 1766, d. in 181 1, m. Nov., 
1 79 1, Cynthia, dau. of Peter and Eunice 
(Mead) Husted, and had: 

1. 5 Eliza, m. Andrus. 

2. 5 Lucy P., m. April 13, 181 7, Gilbert 
Close. 

3. s Husted, b. in 1796. 

4. 5 Amy M., b. in 1798. 

5. s Sarah, b. in 1801. 

6. s Caroline, b. in 1803, 

7. 5 George E., b. in 1806. 

8. s William, b. in 1808. 

9. ^ Eunice R., b. in 1810, 

4. " Sarah, b. Nov. 8, 1768, m. Amos Hobby. 
^ Enos, b. in 1723, d. in 1779, lived in the Parish of 
Stanwich, Stamford, Conn. 

3 Sarah, b. about 1728, m. July 7, 1752, Thaddeus 
Mead. 



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Holly Family 



561 



HOLLY FAMILY. 



^JOHN Holly, bom in England about 161 8, came to 
America about 1640, and settled in Stamford, Connecticut, 
where he died May 25, 1681, leaving him surviving his 
widow, Mary, and the following children : ^ John, ^ Samuel, 
* Increase, ^ Elisha, ^ Jonathan, ^ EHzabeth Tumey, ^ Bethia 
Weed, ^ Hannah Hoyt, and ^ Abigail. 

1. ^ John, b, Oct., 1642, d. Sept. 22, 1716, m. April 2, 1679, 
Hannah Newman, d. Jan, 24, 17 12, and had: 

1. 3 Daniel, b. March 9, 1680, d. June 4, 1680. 

2. 3 Abigail, b. July 6, 1682. 

3. 3 John, b. April 14, 1685, d. in 1725, m. Jan. i, 1708, 
Abigail Hait, and had: 

1. ''John, b. Nov. 12, 1708. 

2. "* Martha, b. Dec. 18, 1709. 

3. '* Abigail, b. March 4, 1712, d. young. 

4. "^ Francis, b. Feb. 20, 17 14, d. young. 

5. ''Joanna, b. Sept. 5, 1715. 

6. •* Josiah, b. June i, 1717. 

7. '' Mercy, b. April 12, 1719. 

8. "^ Francis, b. Jan. 15, 1721, d. , m. Jan. I, 
1749, Abigail Webb, and had: 

1. s Abigail, b. Nov. 28, 1749. 

2. s Samuel, b. May 26, 1751. 

3. s Mercy, b. July 27, 1752. 

4. s Mary, b. April 14, 1754. 

5. s Hannah, b. Aug. 20, 1755. 

6. s Sarah, b. March i, 1757, m. Dec. 25, 
1781, Reuben Rundle, b. March 10, 1757. 

7. 5 John, b. Oct. 4, 1758. 

8. ^ Josiah, b. Sept. 18, 1760. 

9. s Henry, b. June 27, 1764. 

10. s Rhoda, b. July 17, 1766. 

11. s Rheuma, b. July 25, 1769, d. Sept. 23, 
1812. 

9. 4 Hannah, b. Jan. 12, 1722, d. Sept. 20, 1745. 

4. 3 Nathaniel, b. Feb. 9, 1687, m. May i, 1718, Sarah 
Webb. 

5. 3 Josiah, b. Feb. 27, 1690, d. Dec. 12, 1715, unm. 

6. 3 Hannah, b. Nov. 20, 1694. 

7. 3 Elizabeth, b. March 4, 1698. 

8. 3 Sarah, b. Sept. 30, 1701. 

2. " Samuel, b. in 1643, d. May 15, 1710, m. June 25, 1668, 
Mary Close, d. April 7, 17 14, and had: 

I. 3 John, b. April 20, 1670, d. , m. March 19, 

1697, Mary Cressy, and had: 
I. 4 Abigail, b. Dec. 15, 1697. 
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562 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



2. '' Ebenezer, b. March 21, 1699. 

3. '' Noah, b. Jan. 3, 1701. 

4. 4 Joseph, b. Nov. 18, 1702, d. July 17, 1706. 

5. " Hannah, b. Nov. 18, 1702. 

6. ^ Samuel, b. Oct. 20, 1704. 

7. '♦Bezaleel, b. Oct. 28, 1706. 

2. 3 Samuel, b. May 10, 1672, d. young. 

3. 3 Hannah, b. Aug. 15, 1676, d. April 10, 1700. 

4. ^ Joseph, b. April 2, 1678, d. , m. in 1712, 
Waitstill Webb, and had: 

1. "i Joseph, b. June 18, 1 7 13. 

2. ''John, b. Sept. i, 1715. 

3. "^ Josiah, b. June 25, 1717, d. June 10, 1737. 

4. '' David, b. March 11, 17 19. 

5. 4 Jonathan, b. April 16, 1721. 

6. '' Waitstill, b. Jan. 22, 1723. 

7. "• Hannah, b. Sept. 23, 1724. 

8. "Elizabeth, b. March 15, 1726. 

9. '' Sylvanus, b. Feb. 11, 1728. 

10. '' Mary, b. Jan. 13, 1730, d. young. 

11. '' Sarah, b. Dec. 21, 1732. 

12. '^ Mary, b. March 20, 1737. 

5. ? Mary, b. Feb. 26, 1680. 

6. 3 Benjamin, b. Oct. 4, 1684, d. Nov. 19, 1733. 

7. 3 Samuel, b. Jan. 31, 1687. 

^ Increase, Captain, b. about 1646, d. May 20, 1732, m. 
April 2, 1679, Elizabeth, dau. of William Newman, b. in 
1654, d. in 1713, and had: 
I. 3 John, b. Feb. 28, 1680, d. Dec. 20, 1718, m, Jan. 6, 

1704, Susannah, dau. of Captain John Sellick, b. 

Sept. 5, 1682, d. Sept. 20, 1745, and had: 

1. 4 John, b. Sept. 13, 1704, d. Nov. 28, 1704. 

2. ''John, b. Nov. 10, 1705, d, Dec. 21, 1786, m. 
Jan. 9, 1728, Hannah Slawson, d. Jan. 11, 
1776, and had: 

1. s Hannah, b. June 25, 1729. 

2. 5 Sarah, b. Aug. 7, 1731. 

3. s Elizabeth, b. Dec. 10, 1733. 

4. s John, b. Feb. 2, 1736. 

5. s Jemima, b. May i, 1738. 

6. s Keziah, b. Sept. 12, 1740, d. Dec. 27, 
1740. 

3. " David, b. July 27, 1708, d. , m. July 18, 
1734, Martha Halt, and had: 

1. s Martha, b. June 10, 1735, m. Samuel 
Waterbury. 

2. s John, b. Oct. 28, 1736. 

3. s Abigail, b. Feb. 21, 1740. 

4. s Sarah, h. Oct. 22, 1742. 



Holly Family 563 

5. 5 Newman, b. Dec. 8, 1749. 

4. '' Samuel, b. May 13, 1709. 

5. ''Susannah, b. April 8, 171 1, m. Alexander 
Bishop. 

6. '^ Selleck, b. Oct. 18, 1713, d. Oct. 21, 1758, m. 
June 18, 1740, Mercy Holly, d. Aug. 18, 1745, 
and had: 

1. s Selleck, b. Sept. 28, 1741. 

2. 5 Jedediah, b. Sept. 15, 1744. 

7. '' Daughter, b. May 19, 1716, d. young. 

8. "■ Newman, b. Aug. 28, 1718, d. in 1757, m, Jan. 
15, 1753, Elinor Bishop, and had: 

1. 5 Susannah, b. Aug. 18, 1755. 

2. 5 Hannah, b. Sept. 14, 1756. 

3. s Newman, b. Aug. 2, 1757. 

2. 3 Jonathan, b. Feb. 23, 1684, d. in 1751, unm. 

3. 3 Joseph, b. March 24, 1687. 

4. 3 Nathan, b. Sept. 26, 1692, d. , m. May i, 
1 718, Sarah Webb, and had: 

1. 't Elizabeth, b. May 9, 1719. 

2. 4 Hannah, b. Nov. 16, 1726. 

3. '•Sarah, b. Nov. 16, 1726. 

4. " Nathan, b. Feb, 26, 1729, m. Hannah Jager, 
and had : 

1. s Sarah, b. May 7, 1766. 

2. 5 Isaac, b. May 26, 1768, d. Jan. 26, 1827. 

5. '•Joanna, b. Feb. 6, 1737. 

'Elisha, b. June i, 1659, d. Oct. 28, 1719, m. Dec. 2, 
1686, Martha Holmes, d. Aug. 4, 1721, and had: 
I. 3 Elisha, b. Nov. 10, 1687, d. May 14, 1752, m. Jan. 
24, 1 7 16, Rebecca, dau. of Stephen Bishop, and had: 

1. "Elisha, b. Oct. 31, 1717, d. Dec. 19, 1717. 

2. '• Elizabeth, b. about 17 19. 

3. ^ Rebecca, b. about 1721, m. Nathaniel Water- 
bury. 

4. '' Martha, b. Sept. 28, 1723, m. Ezekiel Smith. 

5. " Elisha, b. Sept. 21, 1726. 

6. "Stephen, b. Oct. 19, 1728, d. in 1771, m. ist, 
Oct. 9, 1 75 1, Hannah Marshall, d. May 26, 
1761, m. 2d, April 19, 1762, Lois Mead, 
widow, and dau. of Rev. Abraham Todd, 
removed to Greenwich, Conn., and had: 

1. 5 Rebecca, b. July 12, 1752. 

2. 5 Silas, b. March 8, 1755. 
By 2d wife: 

3. s Stephen, b. Jan. 12, 1763. 

4. s Isaac, b. Dec. 24, 1764, d. March 8, 1851 , 
m. in 1789, Sarah, dau. of Joseph and 
Sarah (Tyler) Reynolds, and had: 



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2. 



^ Sally, b. Nov. 25, 1790, m. John 

Hubbard. 

^ Lucius, b. July 5, 1792, d. Feb. 12, 

1 82 1, unm. 

^ Samantha R., b. Dec. 20, 1793, m. 

Nehemiah Howe. 

^ Hannah, b. Dec. 22, 1795, m. Daniel 

Lyon. 

^ Isaac, b. March 9, 1798, m. ist, 

Abigail, dau. of Job and Elizabeth 

(Mead) Lyon, m. 2d, Mary M., 

dau. of Elias Peck. 

6. ^William, b. Feb. 23, 1800, d. Nov. 
27, 1822, unm. 

7. ^ Eliza A., b. March 23, 1802, d. 
March i, 1821. 

8. ^ Stephen, b. Aug. 23, 1804, d. July 2, 
1855, m. Jan. 13, 1829, Emeline A., 
dau. of Horton and Abigail (Ingersoll) 
Reynolds, and had: ^ Edward P., and 
a dau. who d. young. 

9. ^ Piatt T., Rev., b. Aug. 23, 1806, m. 
Julia, dau. of Matthew B. Whittlesey 
of D anbury, Conn. 

10. ^ Frances O., b. Aug. 18, 1809, m. 
Alfred Reynolds. 

5. 5 Jonah, b. Nov. 26, 1767, removed to 
Bedford, N. Y. 

6. s Hannah, b. Feb. 11, 1770, m. James 
Knapp of Genoa. 

7. '' Mercy, b. about 1730, m. Samuel Lines. 

8. ''Abraham, b. Jan. 12, 1733. 

9. '' Abigail, b. June 6, 1736. 

3 Eliphalet, b. March 29, 1690, d. Oct. 28, 1744, m. 
in 1 7 14, Mercy Penoyer, and had: 

1. 4 Eliphalet, b. Dec. 16, 1716, d. March 12, 

1733- 

2. 4 Lydia, b. Feb. 6, 1719, m. Weed. 

'•John, b. Feb. 18, 1721, d. Dec. 25, 1737. 
'' Abigail, b. May 2, 1723, m. Scofield. 



3 
4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

9 
10 



'* Elnathan, b. March 29, 1725. 

"• Mercy, b. Dec. 16, 1726. 

'' Reuben, b. Jan. 17, 1728. 

'^ Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1729. 

"• Ebenezer, b. Jan. 30, 1731. 

'' Mary, b. Jan. 10, 1734. 

3 Martha, b. Dec. 28, 1691, m. 

3 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 28, 1694. 
3 Elnathan, b. March 20, 1696. 



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6. 3 Israel, b. Jan. 16, 1698, d. , m. Sarah Cross, 
and had: 

1. ^ Sarah, b. Dec. 14, 1725. 

2. '' Israel, b. April 3, 1728. 

3. "• Nathaniel, b. May 26, 1730. 

4. '' Martha, b. June 27, 1732. 

5. "t Deborah, b. June 14, 1736. 

6. '* Margaret, b. May 20, 1739. 

7. 3 Abigail, b. June 8, 1700. 

8. ^ John, b. Nov. 20, 1702, d. Dec. 9, 1702. 

9. 3 Mary, b. May 5, 1705, d. May 8, 1705. 
10. ^ Sarah, b. about 1708. 

5. ' Jonathan, b. March i, 1663, d. Oct. 12, 1712, m. Dec. 
2, 1686, Sarah Finch, b. in 1662, d. Jan. 16, 1750, and 
had: 

1. 3 Jonathan, b. Aug. 16, 1687, d. , m. April 25, 

1 71 7, Sarah Buxton, and had: 

I. ,'' Sarah, b. , and perhaps others. 

2. 3 Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 1690. 

3. 3 Charles, b. Aug. 21, 1694, d. , m. Jan. 16, 

1 71 8, Elizabeth Bradley, and had: 

1. '* Elizabeth, b. Nov. 20, 1718. 

2. "Jonathan, b. June 13, 1720, d. July 17, 1747. 

3. " Sarah, b. April 28, 1723. 

4. 4 Increase, b. March 2, 1727, d. March 3, 1727. 

5. " Bethia, b. April 21, 1733. 

4. 3 David, b. Jan. 16, 1696, d. April i, 1751, m. ist, 
Margery Webb, d. April 19, 1742, m. 2d, July 28, 
1743, widow Sarah Little of Norwalk, and had by 
1st wife: 

1. 4 Sarah, b. May 23, 1723, d. June 29, 1723. 

2. " Sarah, b. Sept. 25, 1724. 

3. '^ David, b. Sept. i, 1726. 

4. 4 Martha, b. Sept. 15, 1728. 

5. 4 Increase, b. May 12, 1730. 

6. " Rachel, b. May 11, 1733. 

7. 4 John, b. Oct. II, 1735. 

8. ^ Abigail, b. Aug. i, 1740, d. Aug. 20, 1740. 
By 2d wife : 

9. '• Isaac, b. June 13, 1744. 

10. " Abraham, b. April 17, 1746. 

5. 3 Bethia, b. Feb. 4, 1698, d. Jan. 20, 1699. 

6. 3 jabez, b. Nov. 20, 1699, d. , m. Nov. 9>'j7^7i 
Waitstill Clason, and had : 
I. 4 Hannah, b. Aug. 14, 1728. 



4 Waitstill, b. July 24, 1730. 
4 Abigail, b. Aug., 1732. 
4 Mary, b. May 27, 1735. 
4 Sarah, b. July 30, I737- 



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6. '•Jemima, b. Dec. lo, 1739. 

7. 4 jabez, b. Feb. 8, 1740. 

8. " Keziah, b. July 18, 1748. 

7. 3 John, b. Sept. 2, 1703, d. Dec. 20, 1703. 

8. 3 Increase, b. Sept. 2, 1703. 

9. 3 Deborah, b. March 11, 1706. 
' Elizabeth, m. Turney. 

^ Bethia, m. Jonas Weed. 

^ Hannah, m. Hoyt, 

=* Abigail, b. 



HOLMES FAMILY. 



^Francis Holmes, probably born in County York, 
England, about 1600, came to America about 1635, and first 
settled in Massachusetts. From there he removed to Stam- 
ford, Connecticut, where he died in 1675, leaving him sur- 
viving his widow, Ann, and the following children : ^ John, 
* Stephen, ^ Ann, w^ife of Samuel Dean, and ^ Richard. 

I, * John, b. about 1630, d. , m. Dec. 3, 1659, Rachel, 

dau. of John Waterbury, and had: 

1. ^ John, b. Oct. 8, 1660, d. young. 

2. 3 Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1662, m. Dec. i, 1692, Daniel 
S. Clason. 

3. 3 Stephen, b. Jan. 14, 1664, d. at Greenwich, Conn., 
in 1 7 10, m. Nov. 18, 1686, Mary, dau. of John 
Hobby, b. about 1662 (she m. 2d, Feb. 13, 1713, 
Benjamin Green), and had: 

1. " Sarah, b. , m. James Reynolds. 

2. '•Jonathan, b. about 1688, d. in 1750, m. ist, 
July 29, 1707, Sarah, dau. of Jonas Seely, d. 
Feb. 27, 1727, m. 2d, , and had by ist 
wife: 

1. s Sarah, b. March 22, 1708. 

2. s Martha, b. Sept. 22, 171 1. 

3. s Elizabeth, b. Oct. 27, 1714. 

4. 5 Jonathan, b. Feb. 27, 1716. 

5. 5 Rachel, b. Feb. 24, 1720. 

6. 5 Epenetus, b. Oct. 30, 1722, m. , and 
had: (removed to Keene, N. H.) 

I. ^ Sarah, b. Nov. 6, 1744. 

^Jonathan, b. Sept. 28, 1746. 

^ Azel, b. May 6, 1751. 

^Abigail, b. May ii, 1757. 

^ Squire, b. March 5, 1760. 

^ Rachel, b. in 1767. 
5 Susannah, b. Feb. 10, 1725. 



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Holly Family 567 

8. s ichabod, b. about 1730, and perhaps 
others. 

3. '' Stephen, b. about 1690, d. , m. ist, 
Sarah Green, d. Sept. 15, 1713, m, 2d, Feb. 
27, 1 717, Martha, dau. of Jonathan Mead, b. 
Dec. II, 1693. Children by his ist wife all d. 
in infancy. After his 2d marriage he probably 
removed to Vermont. 

4. '• Benjamin, b. about 1692, d. in 1745, m. , 
and had: 

1 . ^ Abner, b. in 1 729, m. Mary , and had 

Sarah. 

2. s Reuben, b. in 1731, d. in 1808, m. , 
and had : 

I. ^Susannah, m. ist, Knapp, m. 

2d, Dally. 

^ Polly, m. Justus B. Mead. 

^ Reuben, b. 

^ Stephen, d. before 1809. 

* Benjamin, b. 

^ Molly, m. Lewis Hine. 

^ Absalom, b. , m. April 11, 1779, 

Charity, dau. of Peter Mead, b. July 

29, 1763. 

^ Jotham, b. 

^ Ruth, m. Hobby. 

^ Silas, b. 

^ Sarah, b. 

^ Israel, d. before 1809. 

5. 4 Mary, b. , m. Caleb Mead. 

6. '» Isaac, b. about 1700, d. at Greenwich, Conn., 
in 1793, m. Abigail, dau. of Ebenezer Mead, b. 
in 1704, and had: 

1. s Isaac, b. , d. in 1787, m. , and 
had: 

I. David, b. in 1774, and perhaps 
others. 

2. ^ Ebenezer, b. 

3. sjabez, b. , d. in 1815, m. , and 
had : ^ Gideon, ^ Mary, and ^ Betsy. 

4. s John, b. , removed to New York 
State. 

5. s Abigail, b. , m. Samuel Mills, 

6. s Sarah, b. , m. Silas Bishop. 

7. s Rachel, b. , m. Richard Sackett. 

8. s Mary, b. , m. Ebenezer Hobby. 

9. s Hannah, b. , m. Thomas Hobby, Jr. 
3 Sarah, b. about 1667, m. Feb. 25, 1691, Jonathan 
Miller. 



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10 
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12 



568 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

5. 3 Rachel, b. Dec. 7, 1669. 

6. 3 John, b. Oct. 18, 1670, removed to Bedford, N. Y., 

m. Jemima , and probably had: "• John, "* Isaac, 

4 Ebenezer, and "^ Solomon, whose -wills are in New 
York County, and perhaps others. 

7. 3 David, b. about 1672, m. Ruth . 

8. 3 Richard, b. about 1674, m. about 1691, Mary, dau. 
of John Miller. 

9. 3 Joseph, b. about 1676, m. Joanna . 

10. 3 Jonathan, b. about 1678, m. Dorothy . 

11. 3 Rose, b. about 1679, d. in 1750, m. April 9, 1702, 
John Westcott. 

2. ' Stephen, b. about 1632, d. at Stamford, Conn., May 15, 
1 7 10, m. Martha , d. March 13, 1728, and had: 

1. 3 Samuel, b. about 1665, d. June 16, 1734, probably 
m. Sept. 4, 1725, Anne Orry of Stratford, and had: 
I. "t Samuel, b. Oct. 28, 1726, and perhaps others. 

2. 3 John, b. about 1667, d. Jtily 6, 1703, at Stamford, 
m. Jan. 15, 1702, Mercy Bell, and had: 

I. "John, b. May 21, 1703, d. before 1785, m. 
Nov. 27, 1729, Rebecca Bell, and had: 

1. s Mercy, b. Jan. 9, 1730, m. Samuel 
Jeffrey. 

2. s John, b. July 24, 1732, m. Sarah Hait. 

3. 5 Deborah, b. Aug. 29, 1736, m. 

Smith. 

4. s Rebecca, b. Jan. 29, 1738, m. Samuel 
Pelton. 

5. s Martha, b. April 26, 1741, m. David 
Fancher. 

6. s Hannah, b. in 1743, m. Thaddeus Hait. 

3. 3 Stephen, b. about 1669, d. , m. Sept. 7, 1704, 
Margaret Gibe, and had: 

1. ■* Hannah, b. Jan. 15, 1706, d. April 15, 1705. 

2. "* Child, d. Aug. 11, 1712, and perhaps others. 

4. 3 Mary, m. Sloson. 

5. 3 Martha, m. Holly. 

6. 3 Rebecca, m. Jaggers. 

7. 3 Abigail, m. Hait. 

8. 3 Sarah, m. Waterbury. 

3. ' Ann, b. about 1634, m. Samuel Dean of Stamford, Conn. 

4. * Richard, b. about 1637, d. at Norwalk, Conn., in 1704, 
m. Sarah , and had no children. 

HORTON FAMILY. 

^Barnabas Horton was bom at Mousley, Leicestershire, 
England, in 1600, came to America about 1635, settled first 



Howe Family 569 

at Hampton, Massachusetts, removed to Southold, Long 
Island, in 1640, and died there July 13, 1680. His children 
were : ^ Joseph, ^ Benjamin, ^ Caleb, ^ Joshua, ^ Jonathan, 
"" Hannah, ^ Sarah, ^ Mary, and ^ Mercy. 

^Joseph Horton removed to Rye, N. Y., in 1665, married 
about 1655, Jane, dau. of John Budd, and became the pro- 
genitor of the Horton family of Westchester Coimty, N. Y. 
See Horton Genealogy by George F. Horton, M.D., published 
in 1876. 

HOWE FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance of 

William A. Howe, formerly of Greenwich, Conn., 

but now of Rockville, Conn. 

There were several persons by the name of Howe, who 
were early settlers in America, as follows : 

John Howe, who settled in Sunbury, Mass. 

Abraham Howe, who settled in Roxbury, Mass. 

Joseph Howe, who settled in Ipswich, Mass. 

Daniel Howe, who settled in Lynn, Mass., about 1630, 
removed to Southampton, L. I., and finally returned to Eng- 
land. 

^Edward Howe, brother of Daniel Howe, above referred 
to, bom about 1585, at Hatfield Broad Oaks, County Essex, 
England, who came to America in the Truelove, Sept. 19, 
1635, and settled in Lynn, Mass., was the ancestor of the 
Greenwich family. He died suddenly in 1639, on his return 
from a session of the General Court of Massachusetts, of 

which he was a member. He married Elizabeth , b. in 

1585, d. Jan. 25, 1672, and had: 

1. ^Jeremiah, b. in 1614, in England, came to America 
with his father, and settled in New Haven, Conn., in 
1644, m. , and had: ^ Zachariah, ^ Nathaniel, 
3 Elizabeth, ^ Bathsheba, ^ Jeremiah, ' Joseph, ^John, 
and ' Ebenezer. 

2. * Sarah, b. in 1623, in England, came to America. 

3. ^ Ephraim, b. in 1626, in England, came to America 
with his father, and settled in New Haven, Conn., in 
1644, m. , and had: ^ Ephraim, ^ Sarah, ^ Mary, 
3 Samuel, ^ Daniel, ^ Isaac, ^ Abigail, ^ Esther, and 
3 Mary. 

4. ' Isaac, b. in 1628, in England, came to America with 
his father, and in 1686, removed from Lynn to Green- 
wich, Conn. 



570 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

5. ^ William, b. in 1629, in England, came to America with 

his father. 
^ Isaac, above referred to, b. in 1628, d. in Greenwich, Conn., 
in 1688, m. , and had: 

I. 3 Nathaniel, b. about 1653, d. at Greenwich, June 

29, 1692, m. Bowers, sister of John Bowers, 

and had : 

I, "^ Isaac, b. about 1679, d. May 7, 1733, m. June 
1 , 1702, Elizabeth, dau. of Lieut. David Water- 
bury of Stamford, Conn., b. Jan. 19, 1684, 
and had : 

1. s ]v^a,thaniel, b. June 11, 1703, m. Nov. 
5, 1729, Sarah, dau. of Lieut. Samuel 
Bates of Stamford, Conn., removed to 
Canaan, Litchfield County, Conn., and 
had: 

1. ^Nathaniel, b. March 7, 1730, m. 
Nov. 30, 1768, Eleanor Warner of 
Suffield, Conn. 

2. ^ Samuel, b. March 20, 1732, m. Sept. 
29, 1763, Mary Turner. 

3. ^ Sarah, b. April 19, 1734, m. Dec. 26, 
1754, Samuel Turner of Norfolk, 
Conn. 

4. ^ Elizabeth, b. June 17, 1736. 

5. ^ Uriah, b. Oct. 8, 1738, served in the 
French and Indian War, d. at Albany, 
N. Y., Sept. I, 1758, of wounds 
received at Ticonderoga. 

6. ^ Isaac, b. Dec. 16, 1743, m. Nov. 22, 
1764, Mary Cande, was in the fight 
at Concord, went to West Haven, Vt., 
and from there, in 1808, to Orwell, 
Pa., built first frame house there, 
which is still occupied by one of his 
descendants. 

2. s Sarah, b. in 1704, d. in infancy. 

3. s Elizabeth, b. March 16, 1708, m. James 
Slawson, of Stamford, Conn. 

4.^rs Isaac, Captain, b. Jan. 9, 171 1, a Revolu- 
tionary soldier, d. Oct. 8, 1779, m. ist, 
Aug. 15, 1734, Abigail Webb, d. July 30, 
1735, m. 2d, Feb., 1736, Keziah, dau. of 
Benjamin Mead, b. Feb. 10, 1707, d. Nov. 
19, 1808, and had: 

I. ^ Abigail, b. Feb. 22, 1738, d. April 28, 
1807, m. June 11, 1759, Deliverance 
Mead, b. May 4, 1728, d. March 3, 
1785. 



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571 



2. ^ Sarah, b. June 6, i739. d. Feb. 16, 
1740. 

3. « Sarah, b. June 9, 1741. d. March 30, 
1785, m. Dec. 8, 1779, Jonas Mead, 
b. Dec. 25, 1723, d. Sept. 14, 1783- 

4. ^ Keziah, b. Feb. 23, 1743, d. April 16, 

1816, m. Jan. 13, 1765. Captain 
Abraham Mead, an officer in the 
Revolutionary War, b. Dec. 14, 1742, 
d. Dec. 24, 1827. 

5. 6 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 22, 1745, d. Sept. 
20, 1810. 

6. ^ Rachel, b. in 1747, d. young. 

7. <5 Isaac, b. Feb. 11, 1749, a Revolu- 
tionary soldier, d. Dec. 29, 1823, m. 
May 28, 1778, Lucy, dau. of Nehe- 
miah and Sarah (Knapp) Mead, b. 
March i, 1758, d. Dec. 10, 1820, and 
had: ^ ^ ., 

7 Sally, b. Aug. 18, I779. d. April 

17, 1846, m. Gilbert Close. 

7 Laura, b. Oct. 10. 1780, d. July 

22, 1787. ^ , 
7 Betsy, b. Sept. 24, 1782, d. 
June 9, 1864, m. Rufus Knapp. 
7 Keziah, b. March 28, 1784, d. 
Oct. 27, 1864, unm. 
7 Rachel, b. March 28, 1784, d. 
Nov. 10, 1865, unm. 
1 Esther, b. April 3, 1786, d. Dec. 
17, 1849, unm. 
7 Jonas, b. April 24, 1787, d. Feb. 

23, 1867, m. Anna, dau. of Peter 
and Hannah (Close) Mead, b. 
Aug. 17, 1787, d. Sept. 19, 1871, 
and had : 
I 8 Deborah, b. Sept. 5, 181 7, 

d. Feb. 2, 1903, m. Mark 
Mead, b. Aug. 14, 181 7, d. 
Dec. 25, 1896, no children. 

2. 8 Allen, b. June 10, 1819, d. 
June 20, 1892, m. Eliza A. 
Lyon, b. April 29, 1822, d. 
Dec. 24, 1865. 

3. 8 Isaac, b. July 27, 1822, d. 
Dec. 27, i860, m. Oct. 25, 
1847, Hannah R. Finch. 

4. 8 Lewis, graduate of Yale 
College, b. Aug. 6, 1827, d. 



572 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

July 3, 1857, m. Nov. 3, 
1852, Mary L. dau. of 
Joseph and Sarah (Mead) 
Brush, b. Dec. 17, 1831. 

8. '' Laura, b. April 12, 1789, d. 
March 7, 1872, unm. 

9. 7 Lucy, b. March 5, 1 791, d. May 
23, 1872, unm. 

10. '' Isaac, b. Jan. 29, 1793, d. Feb. 
28, 1823, unm. 

11. '' Nehemiah, b. Jan. 8, 1795, d. 
Sept. I, 1867, m. May 16, 1831, 
Samantha R., dau. of Isaac and 
Sarah (Reynolds) Holly, b. Dec. 
20, 1793, d. March 3, 1882, and 
had: 

I. 8 William A., b. Dec. 16, 
1833, m. Oct. I, 1868, 
Jennie E., dau. of William 
S. and Margaret (Barber) 
Kellogg of South Windsor, 
Conn., b. March 27, 1843, 
and had 'Robert K., 
9 Charles T., and «» Philip 
M. 

12. 7 Cornelia, b. March 15, 1797, d. 
Nov. 2, 1873, unm. 

13. 7 Samuel, b. March 20, 1799, d. 
Dec. 17, 1801. 

14. ■'Samuel, Rev., b. March 27, 
1803, graduate of Yale College, 
Class of 1827, m. Aug. 20, 1835, 
Eloise L., dau. of Rev. Piatt 
Buffett, b. in 1802, d. April 7, 
1883, and had: 

1. * Charlotte E., b. Dec. 12, 
1836, m. Oct. 23, 1862, Rev. 
Horace C. Hinsdale. 

2. * Theodore L. B., b. in 1839, 
graduate of Yale College, 
Class of i860, d. Nov. 7, 
1863. 

5. s Epenetus, b. in 1717, d. Jan. 16, 1773, 
removed to Salem, N. Y., m. Feb. 7, 1740, 
Mary Mead, and had : 

1. ^Epenetus, b. Jan. 7, 1741, removed 
to Ridgefield, Conn. 

2 . ^ David, b. , removed to Ballston , 
N. Y. 



Howe Family 573 

3. ^ Jesse, b. , removed to Ballston, 
N. Y. 

4. ^ Isaac, b. Oct. 17, 1742, removed to 
Ballston, N. Y. 

5. ^ Polly, b. Dec. 8, 1744, m. 

Wood. 

6. ^ Ireneus, b. , removed to Ball- 
ston, N. Y. 

7. ^ Esther, b. Sept. 16, 1746. 

8. ^ Ebenezer, b. , removed to New 
Brunswick, Canada. 

6. 5 Bowers, b. Oct. 6, 1718, d. at sea, unm. 

7. s David, b. Jan. 14, 1720, d. in 1795, at 
Darien, Conn., m. Nov. 20, 1745, Rebecca 
Whiting, and had: 

1. ^ Jacob, b. Oct. 16, 1746. 

2. ^ Sarah, b. , m. Jeremiah Andrus 
of Stamford, Conn. 

3. ^ Abigail, b. Sept. 5, 1750, m. William 
Crissy of Stainford, Conn. 

4. ^ Bowers, b. Aug. 8, 1752. 

5. ^Rebecca, b. April 7, 1755, m. Ben- 
jamin Scofield. 

6. ^ Elizabeth, b. Sept. 29, 1760, m. 
Thaddeus Bell of Darien, Conn. 
(Miss JuHa E. Bell of Greenwich, 
Conn., is a descendant.) 

8. s Ebenezer, b. Aug. 4, 1723, m. ist, , 
m. 2d, Sept. 4, 1753, Mary Brown, 
removed to Bedford, N. Y., and had: 

1. 6 Nathan, South Salem, N. Y., b. 
April 29, 1754. 

2. ^ Ebenezer, b. Jan. 23, 1757- 

9. s James, b. Dec. 18, 1725, d. at Darien, 
Conn., Oct. 3, 1779, m. Aug. 20, 1752, 
Sarah Waring, and had: 

1. ^ Sarah, b. May 26, 1753, m. Nathan- 
iel Clock. 

2. ^ James, b. April 29, 1759, unm. 

3. ^EHzabeth, b. April 22, 1763, m. 
Jesse Selleck. 

4 John, b. about 1681 , d. , m. July 27, 1710, 

Comfort Finch, and had: 
I. s Nathaniel, b. Jan. 27, 1713, m. , 

and had : 

1. ^Nathaniel, of Stamford, Conn., an 
officer in the Revolutionary War. 

2. ^ Jonathan, b. 

3. 6 Sylvanus, b. , removed to West 



574 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Farms, later to Dutchess County, N. 
Y. 

2. 5 Hannah, b. April 3, 1716, m. Feb. 4, 
1737, Daniel Briggs of Stamford, Conn. 

3. 5 John, b. June 4, 1718, d. March 10, 1778, 
removed to Orange County, N. Y.,';,m. 
, and had : 

1. ^ Charles, b. Oct. 15, 1741. 

2. ^ Comfort, b. Oct. i, 1743, d. Feb. 9, 
1746. 

3. ^ Martha, b. Nov. 3, 1745, d. July 6, 
1750. 

4. ^ Sarah, b. April 4, 1748. 

5. ^ John, b. March 11, 1750, removed 
to New York State. 

6. ^ Hannah, b. Feb. 8, 1752, 

7. ^ Jesse, b. July 30, 1754. 

8. ^ Libens, b. July 3, 1756. 

9. ^ Deborah, b. March 22, 1760. 
10. ^ Phebe, b. Feb. 21, 1763. 



HUBBARD FAMILY. 

Reference, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, by Harlan 
Page Hubbard, published in 1895. 

'George Hubbard, bom probably in Somersetshire, 
England, about 1600, married Mary Bishop, probably came 
to America about 1635, first settled at Watertown, Massa- 
chusetts, went from there with the early settlers to Wethers- 
field, Connecticut, removed to Milford, Connecticut, in 1644, 
and to Guilford, Connecticut, in 1648. Name spelled 
Hubert, and Hubbart. His children were : 

I. ^ John of Wethersfield, b. in England, about 1628. 



George, b. in England about 1630. 
^ Daniel, of Milford, b. in England, about 1632. 
^ William j of Greenwich, b. probably in Watertown, 
Mass., about 1635. 
^ Mary, m. John Fowler, of Guilford. 

' Sarah, m. Harrison. -V-V / . ,, , ./_- fiHi-cf.Jrr i?! A'^eWa/ZfA'^^ 

^ Abigail, m. Humphrey Spinning, of New Jersey. •' fX^vi/ff? 

'^ Hannah, m. Mayless. ^ J 

^ Elizabeth, m. John Norton. 
William Hubbard, above referred to, removed to Green- 
wich, Connecticut, and bought land there, Sept. 20, 
1659, S't which time he must have been over twenty-one 



Hubbard Family 575 

years of age. He died at Greenwich, in 1684, married 
Abigail Dudley, and had : 

1. ^Abigail, b. about 1668. 

2. 3 William, b. about 1670, d. in 1723, m. Hannah 
Mead, and had: 

1. '* Hannah, b. about 1694. 

2. ^ Daniel, b. about 1696. 

3. '' EHzabeth, b. Nov. 17, 1698. 

4. " Mary, b. about 1699. 

5. '* Nathaniel, b. about 1702, Hved in Stamford, 
Conn., d. in 1772, m. May 10, 1733, Mary 
Quintard, and had : ^ Nathaniel, ^ Isaac, ^ Wil- 
^ Ham, s Elizabeth, ^ Townsend , ^ Mary, 
5 Margaret, and ^ Anne. 

6. "Abraham, b. in 1705, d. in 1780, m. Abigail 
Rose of Guilford, and had: 

I. s Abraham, b. in 1729, d. May 7, 1786, m. 

Sarah Jenkins, b. in 1731, d. June 7, 1806, 

and had : 

I. ^ Henry, b. in 1751, d. July 11, 1825, 
m. 1st, about 1771, Lydia Dickinson, 
b. in 1748, d. Aug. 18, 1784, m. 2d, 
Hannah Smith, b. in 1766, d. June 7, 
1 841, and had by ist wife: 

1. 7 Nathaniel, b. in 1772, m. Mary 
McKay of Stamford, Conn. 

2. 7 Andrew, b. July 18, 1778, m. 
Jan. II, 1799, Mary, dau. of 
Jonah Mead, b. April 25, 1779, 
d. March 28, 1864. (See Mead 
Genealogy, page 278.) 

3. 7 Sarah, b. in 1780, m. Levi 
Ingersoll. 

4. 7 Gabriel, b. in 1784, m. Hannah 
Dibble. 

By 2d wife: 

5. 7 Lydia, b. in 1786, d. in Ohio, m. 
John Palmer. 

6. 7 Anne, b. in 1789, m. Jared 
Reynolds. 

7. 7 John, b. Nov. 23, 1792, d. Dec. 
7, i8i8,m. Sarah Holly, and had: 

1 . ® Elmaretta, b. June 3, 1815, 
d. Feb. 18, 1897, m. Sept. 23, 
1834, Captain Lewis A. 
Merritt. 

2. « Holly, b. Sept. 15, i8i6,\;d. 
Nov. 29, 1868, m. Mary 
Johnson. 



576 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

3. ^ Sarah A., b. Jan. 24, 1818, 
d. May 13, 1898, m. Aaron 
Husted. 

4. * John, b. Feb. 24, 1819, d. 
at the Battle of Kinston, 
Dec. 18, 1863, m. Mary 
Husted. 

8. 7 Henry S., b. in 1797, d. Aug. 28, 
i860, m. Sarah Weed, b. in 1804, 
d. Jan. 13, 1844. 

9. "^ Abraham, b. Feb. i, 1800, d. in 
N. Y. City, April 29, 1885, m. 
ist, Feb. II, 1828, Amy Palmer, 
b. in 1800, d. June i, 1838, m. 
2d, Lydia Lyon, b. April 11, 
1802, d. Oct. 28, 1879, and had: 
^ Ellen, * Stephen, and ^ Albert. 

10. ^ Mary, b. in 1803, m. Stoddard 
J. Frost of Norwalk, Conn. 

11. 7 Harvey, b. in 1806, d. in 1882, 
in Akron, Ohio, m. ist, May 6, 
1832, Charlotte Brown, m. 2d, 
Helen Edwards, m. 3d, Emily 
Eglee. 

12. 7 wilHam, b. in 1811, m. Nov. 23, 
1835, Sarah Brundage, and had: 
^ Napoleon, ^ Mortimer, * Clar- 
ence, ^ William, and * Alexander. 

2. * Mary, b. , m. Abraham Close. 

3. ^ Nathaniel, b. , d. in 1775, unm. 

4. ^ Prudence, b. , m. David Peck. 

2. s William, b. in 1731, went West. 

3. 5 Mary, b. in 1733, m. John Filkins. 

4. ^ Abigail, b. in 1735. 

5. s Nathaniel, b. in 1737. 

6. s b in 1739. 

3. ^ George, b. about 1673, probably d. in 1688. 

HUSTED FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance 

of the Hon. James W. Husted, A.B., LL.B., of 

the New York Bar, Peekskill, N. Y. 

'Robert Husted, bom probably in County Somerset, 
England, in 1596, sailed for Massachusetts in 1635, where he 
remained for a few years, and then removed to Stamford, 




Husted Family 577 

Connecticut. He was a witness in July, 1640, to the Indian 
deed of Greenwich, Old Town, to Robert Peaks, and Daniel 
Patrick, and was granted a parcel of land at Stamford in 
October, 1642, and died there in 1652, owning land in both 
Stamford and Greenwich. His widow, Elizabeth, survived 
him, and died at Stamford, in 1654. Their children were: 
' Angell, ^ Ann, and ^ Robert. 

1. ^ Angell, b. in England, about 1620, settled in Green- 
wich, Conn., where he d. in April, 1706. 

2. " Ann, b. in England, about 1623, d. Dec. 13, 1707, m. at 
Stamford, Conn., in 1650. Richard Hardy, and had: 
Sarah, Samuel, Hannah, Susannah, Ruth, Mary and 
Abigail. 

3. ^ Robert, b. in England, about 1626, m. at Stamford, 
Conn., Jan. 9, 1655, EHzabeth Buxton, removed to 
Westchester County, N. Y., where he d. Nov. 23, 1704, 
and had: ^ Robert, ^Samuel, ^ John, ^Jonathan, 
3 David, 3 EHzabeth, ^ Sarah, and ^ Mary. 

* Angell Husted, above referred to, b. in England, about 
1620, settled in Greenwich, Conn., d. there, in April, 
1706, was a witness in July, 1640, to the Indian deed of 
Greenwich, Old Town, to Robert Peaks and Daniel 
Patrick, and was one of the original patentees named in 
the patent granted to the Town of Greenwich, in May, 
1665, m. Rebecca , and had: 

1. ^Rebecca, b. about 1645, m. Jonathan Reynolds. 

2. 3 Jonathan, b. about 1647, d. in 1705, m. in 1682, 
Mary, dau. of Robert and Susannah Lockwood, no 
children. After his d. she m. Joseph Knapp of 
Greenwich. 

3. ■' David, b. about 1649, d. unm. before 1706. 

4. ^ Joseph, b. about 1652, d. , m. , and had: 
I. '' David, b. about 1685, d. in 1776, m. May 14, 

1718, Johanna Brundage, and had: 
I. ^ David, b. Aug. 7, 1719, d. in 1787, in 
Dutchess County, N. Y., m. MilHcent 
, d. about 1804, and had: 

1. ^ David, b. about 1744, m. Patience 
Palmer, and had: ^ Patience, b. Jan. 
22, 1778. 

2. ^ Lewis, b. 

3. ^ Titus, b. 

4. ^Ananias, b. , d. in 1829, in 
Dutchess County, N. Y., m. Susan- 
nah, and had, ^ Lewis, ^ Reuben, 
7 Martha, ^ Mahala, ^ Ruth, ^ Re- 
membrance, and ^ Eunice. 

5. ^ Abraham, b. 



c:78 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich > \ 

6. ^ Reuben, b. , m/Freelove .' .v^'h^l 

7. ^ Eunice, b. , m. Gould. ' - ' 

8. ^ Sarah, b. , m. Boyce. 

9. ^ Ruth, b. , m. Mosher. -r.-A^^ 

2. s Hannah, b. Aug. 11, 1721, m. WilHam '"'' 
Palmer. i\V 

3. s Joseph, b. March 30, 1723, d, in 1812, in t 
Dutchess County, N. Y., m. ist, Jemima 
, m. 2d, Sarah , and had: 

1. ^ Desire, b. 

2. ^ Levina, b. 

3. ^ Eunice, b. 

4. ^ Jethro, b. , d. May 7, 1835, m. 

Rachel , d. Oct. 15, 1835, and 

had: ''Jemima, ^ Ezekiel, ''^ Mary, 
7 Joseph, 7 Matthew, ^ Sarah, 
'' Jethro, '' Hannah, and ^ Rachel. 

5. ^ Israel b. , d. before May 29, 
1795, m. , and had: ^ Joseph, 
■^ Anna, ' Stephen, and ^ Israel. 

4. 5 Sarah, b. March 31, 1725, m. Lewis 
Barton. 

5. s Elizabeth, b. Jan. 11, 1727, m. Peter 
Moe. 

6. s Ruth, b. Feb. 29, 1729, m. William 
White. 

7. ^ John, b. Nov. 23, 1731. 

8. 5 Caleb, b. May 14, 1733, m. Catharine 
, and had : 

1. ^ Henry, bapt. June 12, 1762, at Nine 
Partners, Dutchess County, N. Y., 
m. Hannah . 

2. ^ Catharine, bapt. June 12, 1762, at 
Nine Partners, Dutchess County, N. 
Y., m. Palmer. 

3. * Mary, b. 

9. s Juda, b. Aug. 3, 1735, m. Solomon Den- 
ton. 

10. s Lydia, b. Aug. 30, 1737, m. Abraham 
Todd, Jr. 

11. 5 Abraham, b. May 29, 1739, Revolution- 
ary soldier, d. June 9, 1819, m. Hannah, 
dau. of Israel and Mary (Lyon) Knapp, b. 
March 16, 1740, d. Feb. 16, 1825, and had: 
I. ^ David, b. in 1776, d. Sept. 21, 1856, 

m. Jan. 23, 1796, Hannah, dau. of 
Elkanah and Hannah (Mead) Mead, 
b. March 4, 1777, d. July 4, 1826, 
removed to Genoa, N. Y., and had: 



Husted Family 579 

7 David, b. Jan. 5, 1797, no chil- 
dren. 

7 Elkanah, b. April 2, 1798, chil- 
dren. 

3. ■^ Sally, b. Jan. 8, 1800, d. young. 

4. 7 Hannah, b. Jan. 7, 1802, m. 
Edwin Marvin. 

5. 7 Lawrence, b. Feb. 11, 1804, m. 
Mary Beekman. 

6. 7 Amos, b. Jan. 3, 1806, no chil- 
dren. 

'Joseph, b. Jan. 9, 1808, m. 
Mary Brown. 

7 Lot, b. Nov. 30, 1809, went to 
sea, and never heard from. 
7 William, b. March 4, 1814, m. 
Martha, dau. of David Dayton. 

10. 7 Alice, b. Feb. 9, 1814, m. 

Reynolds. 

11. 7 Mary A., b. Dec. 10, 1816, m. 
Thorn Brill. 

12. '' Nancy E., b. Feb. 26, 1819, d. 
Sept. 7, 1876, at Greenwich, 
Conn., m. Jan. 13, 1839, WilHam 
A., also known as Augustus W. 
Husted, b. April 13, 1818, d. 
Aug. 2, 1856, at Greenwich, 
Conn. 

13. 7 Drake, b. March 19, 1821, d. 
young. 

2. ^ Drake, b. March 20, 1779, d. Aug. 
17, 1838, m. April 6, 1806, Nancy M., 
dau. of James and Susannah (Mar- 
vin) Lyon, b. April 15, 1780, d. Aug. 
13, 1861, and had: 

1. 7 Joseph B., b. March 5, 1807, d. 
May 21, 1873, m. Jeannette 
Moseman, and had : 

1. ^willett M., b. Dec. 20, 
1841, d. Jan. 24, 1842. 

2. * Augustus, b. 

3. ^ A. Frank, b. 

2. 7 Sarah M., b. March 23, 1809, d. 
Oct. 2, 1857, m. Sept. 12, 1832, 
Augustus Mead, b. Jan. i, 1805, 
d. April 22, 1864, no children. 
(See Mead Genealogy, page,272.) 

3. 7 Israel, b. March 3, 1810, d. Dec. 
12, 1831, unm. 



580 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

4. 7 Abram F., b. , d. unm., age 
twenty-two. 

5. ' Betsy, B., b. , d. unm., age 
twenty-one. 

6. '^ William A., also known as 
Augustus W., b. April 13, 1818, 
d. Aug. 2, 1856, m. Jan. 13, 1839, 
Nancy Eliza, dau. of David and 
Hannah (Mead) Husted of 
Genoa, N. Y., b. Feb. 26, 1819, 
d. Sept. 7, 1876, at Greenwich, 
Conn., and had: 

1. ^ Drake, b. in 1839, m. 
Catharine E, White of New 
York City, and had Lizzie D. 

2. ^ Joseph B.,b. ,d. unm. 

3. * Elbertina, b. , d. unm., 
age forty-six. 

4. ^ Sarah, b. , m. Theo- 
dosius F. Secor. 

5. ^ Hannah E., b. , m. 
Zenas M. Peck. (See Mead 
Genealogy, page 261.) 

3. ^ William, b. March 28, 1784, d. Oct. 

23, 1837, m. about 1807, Mary, dau. 

of Benjamin W. and Phebe (Merritt) 

Lyon, b. Feb. 19, 1789, d. Sept. 22, 

1876, and had: 

I. '^Benjamin W., b. Jan. 15, 1808, 
d. Nov. 28, 1896, m. Dec. 26, 
1827, Rachel P., dau. of Enon 
and Elizabeth (Webb) Lyon, b. 
Nov. 16, 1805, d. June 3, 1887, 
and had: 

1. ^ Julia, b. Aug. 12, 1830, d. 
Sept. 20, 1830. 

2. ^ Israel G., b. April 27, 1832, 
m. , and had children. 

3. ^Theophilus P., b. Dec. 8, 
1836, d. Jan. 5, 1854. 

4. ^Eliphalet P., b. Dec. 8, 
1836, m. Caroline, dau. of 
David Brown, and had: 
' Sarah Jane and ' Mary 
Frances. 

5. ^William E., b. March 12, 
1840, m. Emma, dau. of 
Captain Lewis A. Merritt, 
and had several children. 



Husted Family 581 

6. * Nathan L., b. Jan. 8, 1844, 
served in Co. I, loth Regt., 
C. V. L, m. Carrie, or Mary 
Brundage, and had several 
children. 

7. ^ Mary L., b. Jan. 31, 1846, 
m. Alexander G. Knapp, 
removed to Iowa. 

2. ^Israel, b. , m. , no 
children. 

3. ■? Hannah, b. , m. Husted 
Hobby. 

4. 7 Phebe Ann, b. , m. Caleb 
W. Merritt. 

5. 7 David, b. April 24, 1818, d. 
June 9, 1848, m. Elizabeth K. 
Smith, b. Nov. 4, 1817, d. Feb. 
12, 1876, and had: 

1. ^ Mary E., b. May 15, 1843, 
m. Nov. 15, 1865, Samuel 
E. Re^molds, b. Oct. 6, 1842, 
children. 

2. ^ William A., b. 

3. * David S., b. , d. unm. 

6. ^ William H., b. about 1821. 

4. ^ Joseph, b. 

5. ^ Hannah, b. , m. Thomas Water- 
bury. 

6. ^ Sally, b. March 7, 1781, d. April 3, 
1865, unm. 

12. 5 Eunice, b. about 1741, m. Sylvanus 
Knapp. 
2. 4 Sarah, b. about 1687, m. Jonathan Mead, Jr. 
3 Angell, b. about 1654, d. about 1728, m. ist, 
m. 2d, , and had: 

I. " Jonathan, b. about 1690, d. in 1733, m. Abi- 
gail Ferris, and had: 

1. 5 Jonathan, under twenty-one in 1733, m. 
Dec. 3, 1744, Mary, dau. of Ebenezerand 
Hannah (St. John) Carter, removed to 
New Canaan, Conn. 

2. s Peter, under twenty-one in 1733, d. at 
New Canaan, Conn., Sept., 1783, m. at 
New Canaan, Oct. 23, 1746, Ann, dau. of 
Samuel Seymour of Norwalk, Conn., b. in 
1728, d. at New Canaan, Conn., Sept. 10, 
1784, and had: 

I. ^Jonathan, b. at New Canaan, in 
1747, d. at Stamford, Conn., Jan. 26, 



582 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1835, III- ^t Stamford, ist, April 6, 
1769, Hannah, dau. of John and 
Hannah (Fei^ris) Waterbury, b. 
March 29, 1746, d. May, 1792, m. 
2d, at Stamford, Oct. 26, 1793, 
Rebecca Waterbury, and had: 

1. '^Jonathan, b. at Stamford, 
Conn., July 7, 1771, d. there, 
March 29, 1856, m. Jan. i, 1795, 
Abigail Leeds, b. Nov. 7, 1769, 
d. Nov. 28, 1848, and had: 
8 Sally, « Jonathan C, » Uzal, 
and ^ Lavinia. 

2. ■'John, b. at Stamford, Conn., 
Aug. I, 1773, d. at Long Ridge, 
Conn., June 6, 1847, m. at 
Stamford, Dec. 22, 1796, 
Rebecca Leeds, b. March 21, 
1778, d. Jan. 24, 1847, and had: 
^ John W., ^ Rebecca Ann, 

* Nathan R., * James H., 
^ James H., ^ Nancy E,, and 
8 Charles H. 

3. ■' Peter, b. at Stamford, Conn., 
July 10, 1775, m. at Stamford, 
Jan. 14, 1796, Hannah Leeds, 
and had: ^ Polly, * Hannah, 
^John, ^ Henry P., ^Sherman, 

* Eliza, * Lyman, and ^ Charles 
E. 

4. '' Hannah, b. at Stamford, Conn., 
Jan. 21, 1778, m. ist, Dec. 21, 
1796, Salmon Hoyt, m. 2d, 
Benjamin Weed, and had by ist 
husband: ^ Hannah, by 2d hus- 
band: ^ Benjamin. 

5. ''Anna, b. at Stamford, Conn., 
Nov. 13, 1781, m. Scofield. 

6. '' Nathan, b. at Stamford, Conn., 
Aug. 10, 1783. 

7. "^ Uzal, b. at Stamford, Conn., 
Aug. 15, 1785, m. March 24, 
1819, Sarah Hoyt Waterbury, b. 
March 21, 1788, d. July 22, 1872, 
and had : ^ Harriet and * Sarah L. 

8. '' Sally, bapt. at Stamford, Conn., 
Sept. 18, 1786. 

By 2d wife : 

9. 'Henry, b. at Stamford, Conn., 



Husted Family 583 

Nov. I, 1795, removed to Jersey 
City, N. J., m. Eliza . 

2. * Samuel, bapt. at New Canaan, 
Conn., July 15, 1750. 

3. ^ Hannah, bapt. at New Canaan, 
Conn., Oct. 22, 1752. 

4. ^ Andrew, bapt. at New Canaan, 
Conn., June i, 1755, d. at Danbury, 
Conn., in 1812, m. before Jan. 12, 
1779, Sarah, dau. of John Hoyt, and 
had: 

1 . 7 Samuel, b. about 1778, removed 
to Huron County, O., in 1817, 
m. Nov. 25, 1799, Esther, dau. 
of Samuel Wildman of Danbury, 
and had: ^ Evelyn, * Hiram W., 
8 Edward E., » Samuel W., 
8 Thomas P., « Hoyt, ^ Betsy 
D., and « Mary J. 

2. 7 Piatt, b. about 1780, m. Fanny 
Star, and had : ' Laura A. and 
8 Harrison H. 

3. 7 phene, b. about 1783, m. May 
29, 1803, Charles Benedict. 

4. 7 Andrew, b. about 1785, m. 

Sarah , and had: * William 

H. and ^JohnB. 

5. '' Seymour, b. about 1788. 

6. 7 Lewis H., b. about 1791, d. in 
1839, m. Phila . 

5. ^ Thaddeus, bapt. at New Canaan, 
Conn., March 26, 1758, m. Jan. 24, 
1782, Abigail Seymour, and had: 

1. 7 Polly, b. Jan. 15, 1783. 

2. 7 Thomas S., b. March 6, 1784, 
d. young. 

3. 7 Nancy, b. Jan. 12, 1786, m. 
Samuel Bouton. 

4. 7 Thomas S., b. Feb. 6, 1788, m. 
Prudence Crissy, and had: 
8 Thomas S., ^ Hiram, * James 
T., and 8 Eliza. 

5. 7 Thaddeus, b. Jan. 29, 1790, m. 
Deborah, dau. of Stephen and 
Deborah (Finch) St. John, b. at 
New Canaan, Conn., Nov. 8, 
1789, d. March i, 1846, and had: 
8 Stephen, ^ Giles, * George, and 
« Thaddeus. 



584 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

6. "> Samuel, b. April 26, 1793. 

7. 7 Morris, b. Feb. 13, 1795, d. 
young, 

8. ■^ Morris, b. June 2, 1797. 

9. 'Alfred, bapt. Aug. 30, 1799, m. 
Joan Caroline Gardner, and had : 
« George S., » Caroline A., » Al- 
fred W., « William E., » Samuel 
G., * Mary E., and ^ Mary A. 

10. ■^ Mary Almira, bapt. Aug. 28, 
1803. 

6. ^ Nathan, bapt. at New Canaan, 
Conn., April 11, 1762, d. in 1781. 

7. ^ EHzabeth, bapt. at New Canaan, 
Conn., April 23, 1769. 

2. ''Ebenezer, b. about 1693, m. May 13, 1729, 

Sarah Holmes, removed to Dutchess County, 

N. Y., about 1750, and had: 

I. 5 Ei^enezer, Major, of Stanford, Dutchess 

County, N. Y., will dated June 13, 18 10, 

probated Jan. 6, 1812, m. Sarah Germond, 

and had : 

I . ^ Peter, of Nine Partners, Dutchess 
County, N. Y., b. in 1762, d. Aug. 15, 
1808, m. Polly Smith, b. in 1761, d. 
in 1825, will probated April 30, 1825, 
and had : 

1. 7 Polly, b. about 1784, m. Charles 
Couch. 

2. '' Susannah, b. about 1786, m. I st, 
Smith Barlow, m. 2d, Seth Harris. 

3. ■' Derrick, b. about 1787, unm. 

4. 7 Cornelius, b. Dec. 25, 1789, d. 
March 16, 1859, m. Phebe 
Waters, d. Dec, 1870, and had: 
* Peter, ^ Walter, ^ Henry, and 
^ Julia. 

5. 7 Salter, b. July 28, 1791, d. 
about 1823, unm. 

6. 7 Leonard, b. April 11, 1793, d. 
July I, 1819, m. Sally Couch. 

7. 7 Clarissa, b. March 31, 1795, d. 
Oct. 28, 1858, m. Dr. Cornelius 
Allerton, b. in 1779, d. April 26, 

1855- 

8. 7 Henry, b. April 22, 1796, m. 
Susan Williams. 

9. 7 Sarah, b. Aug. 14, 1803, m. 
Samuel Stevens, 



Husted Family 585 

2. ^ Germond, b. about 1764, m. Mary 
Adsitt, and had : 

1. ■'James G., b. , d. March 4, 
1832, m. April 18, 1821, Eliza- 
beth Harris, b. July 25, 1788, d. 
March 10, 1869, and had: ^ Ebe- 
nezer and ^ Mary Elizabeth. 

2. ■' Samuel, b. , m. Clarissa 
Nelson, and had : * William, 
* Mary, * Isaac, ^ Milton, and 
^ Henry. 

3. ■^ Isaac, b. , m. , and 
had: ^ Mary H. and * Maria. 

4. '' Germond, b. , d. Aug. 23, 

1842, m. Catharine Canfield, and 
had: » Canfield G., « Milton H., 
^ Walter I., and ^ James. 

5. ^ Maria, b. , d. March 29, 

1843, unm. 

6. ^ Deborah, b. , m. Oct. 27, 
1 841, Asahel Canfield. 

3. ^ Deborah, b. , m. David Suther- 
land. 

4. ^Ebenezer E., b. , m. Hannah 
Lewis, and had: ^ Lewis, ^ Daniel, 
^ Eben, and ' Gertrude. 



2. 


5. ^ Sarah, b. 
^ Silas, b. , m. 


, m. George Brownell. 
Sarah , and had: 




I. 


^ Jonathan, b. 
mins. 


, m. Mary Ctim- 




2. 


^ Jacob, b. 


, m. Susan De La 




3- 
4- 


Vergne. 
^ Joseph, b. 
^ Ebenezer, b. 






5- 


6 Silas, b. 






6. 


^ Hannah, b. 




3- 
4- 


5 Mary, b. 
5 Hannah, b. 





3. '' Mary, b. about 1695, m. Jonathan Knapp. 

4. '^ Hannah, b. about 1697, m. Benjamin Smith. 

5. '' Benjamin, b. about 1700, d. in 1783, m. Sarah 
Newman, and had: 

I . s Benjamin, b. June 6, 1753, j<evolutionary 
soldier, d. Aug. 30, 1834, m. Sarah Day- 
ton, b. in 1757, and had: 
I. ^ David D.,b. , d. April 19, 1846, 

m. Abigail , and had: 

I. 7 Eliza, b. , m. Alexander 

Trowbridge. 



586 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

2. '' Maria, b. , m. William S. 
Brown. 

3. ■' Daughter, who m. Benjamin 
Tripp. 

4. 7 Joseph W., b. 

5. 7 Amanda, b. , d. unm. 

2. ^ Hannah, b. 

3. ^ rienjamin, b. April i , 1784, d. March 
17, 1872, m. June 22, 1809, Olivia, 
dau. of Samuel Mills, b. Aug. 11, 
1787, d. Feb. 25, 1873, and had: 

1. 7 Samuel, b. 

2. 7 Lydia, b. , m. Robert 
Scott. 

3. "^ Sarah, b. , m. Zachariah 
Close. 

4. '' Benjamin, b. 

5. 7 Mary E., b. , m. Samuel 
Dayton. 

4. ^ Martha, b. about 1786, m. Samuel 
Mills, b. Sept. 19, 1783. 

5. ^ William, b. Jan. i, 1788, d. Dec. 17, 

1857, m. Ann , b. March 15, 

1790, d. July II, 1854, and had: 
7 William A., ^ David D., ' Charles 
S., and ^ Ann Elizabeth. 

6. ^ Conklin, b. Dec. 7, 1790, d. Dec. 12, 
1880, m. April 28, 1834, Mary Ann, 
dau. of Abraham and Mary (Hub- 
bard) Close, b. Aug. 7, 1799, d. Nov. 
19, 1876, and had: 

1. 7 Julia E., b. Feb. 27, 1835, d. 
April I, 1907, m. William H. 
Briggs, b. Jan. 5, 1834, d. May 
28, 1906. 

2. 7 Eveline C, b. , m. Allen 
Brundage of North Castle, N. Y. 

7. ^MaryB.,b. 

8. "^ Roswell, b. Aug. 19, 1797, d. Nov. 

19, 1832, m. Amy K. , b. Feb. 3 , 

1797, d. July II, 1854. 

9. ^ Rachel, b. 

2. s Nathaniel, Revolutionary soldier, b. 
March 12, 1757, d. Jan. 20, 1826, m. Ruth, 
dau. of Jonathan Sniffin, b. in 1759, d. 
Oct. 14, 1843, and had: 
I. ^ James, b. June, 1786, d. Sept. 23, 

1851, m. Jan. 12, 1825, Mary B., dau. 

of Benjamin and Sarah (Dayton) 



Husted Family 587 

Husted, b. May 22, 1793, d. Dec. 6, 
1885, no children. 

2. ^ Nathaniel, b. in 1793, m. Dec. 3', 
1821 , Mary E., dau. of Esbon Husted, 
and had : 

1. 7jarvis, N., Dr., b. , m. 

, and had :* Emily,* Frances, 
and * Singleton. 

2. 7 Nathaniel C, Dr., b. , m. 
Deborah Fairchild, and had: 
* Carrie. 

3. 7 Sarah, b. , m. George 
Griffin, 

4. 7 Emily, b. , d. unm. 

5. 7 Ruth, b. , m, Edson 
Knapp. 

6. ' Nancy, d. young. 

3. ^ Samuel, b. Jan. 15, 1795, d. Dec. 5, 
1882, m. Jan. 8, 1817, Nancy, dau. of 
Esbon Husted, and had: 

1. 7 Amos, b. in 1818, d. unm. 

2. 7 Nathaniel W., b. May 23, 1820, 
d. Nov. 30, 1884, m. Armenia, 
dau. of Harvey Palmer, b. April 
20, 1829, and had: 

1. * Phebe J., b. Oct. 10, 1849, 
d. young. 

2. *AlbertP.,b. Nov. 16, 1851, 
m. Eva T., dau. of Charles 
Johnston. 

3. ^ Harvey, b. July 12, 1854, 
m. I St, Carrie L., dau. of 
Jonathan H. Green, m. 2d, 
Aug. 21, 1889, Grace E., 
dau. of William H. Huestis, 
and had by ist wife : ' Edna, 
5 Mabel, and ' Robert, and 
by 2d wife: 'Alice L., 
9 Evelyn G., "Frances, 
' Louise A., and ' Harvey 
P. 

4. * William L., b. Sept. 18, 
1857, d. July 2, 1885, unm. 

5. «FrankC.,b. Aug. 26, 1866, 
m. Jennie, dau, of Rev. 
WilHam F. Hatfield, no 
children, 

6. * Anson, b. Aug. 26, 1866, 
m. Emma, dau. of William 



588 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

F. Hatfield, and had: 
9 Emily and ' Tileston. 
7. ^Minnie, b. April 3, 1871, 
m. Harry P., son of Charles 
Smith. 

3. 7 Eunice C, b. , m. Anson 
C. Lindsley, removed to Yates 
County, N. Y. 

4. "^ Elizabeth, b. , unm. 

5. '' John A., b. , m. Sarah, dau. 
of Charles Smith, and had: 
^ Grace and ^ Mary. 

6. '^ James, b. Sept. 28, 1828, m. 
Sept. 12, i860, Stella P., dau. of 
Joseph and Sarah A. (Mead) 
Brush, b. May 22, 1838, and had: 
^ James F., * Joseph B., ^ Sarah 
E., 8 Emily M., » Eunice L., 
^ James H., and * Helen. 

7. ■^ Samuel, b. , m. Minnie 

, d. June I, 1910, and had: 

8 Irving, 8 Mary, and ^ Minnie. 

8. 7 Mary, or Nancy, b. , m. 
O. L. Jackson. 

4. ^ Benjamin, b. June 20, 1799, d. Aug. 
27, 1879, m. 1st, in 1835, Sarah A. 
Knapp, b. July 13, 1807, d. Nov. 17, 
1843 m. 2d Electa M., dau. of 
Major Brown, b. in 1802, d. Aug. 27, 
1878, and had by ist wife: 

1. ^ Sarah A., b. July 23, 1836, m. 

John W. Palmer. 

2. 7 John A., b. Sept. 16, 1838, m. 
Mary Serena Weed, and had: 
^ Lizzie, m. Joseph B., son of 
James Husted, * Benjamin C, 
^ Pauline, * Marion L., ^ Nehe- 
miah L., and * Annie. 

3. 7 Nehemiah H., b. April 14, 1843, 
m. Dec. 28, 1869, Clarissa J., 
dau. of Thomas H. and Susan 
(Haight) Raymond, b. April 24, 
1842, and had: ^ Susan F., ^ Cla- 
rissa J., 8 Harriet E., ^ George J., 
and two others who d. young. 

5. ^Jonathan, b. March, 1803, d. Sept. 

10, 1887, m. Sarah A., dau. of William 
Sniffin, b. Jan., 1813, d. Jan. 31, 1899, 
and had: ^Nathaniel S., 'Caroline, 



Husted Family 589 

7 Martha, ^ Adelaide, ^ Cordelia 
■^ Clara, and ''Annie, all died without 
issue. 

6. ^ Rachel, b. , d. age thirteen. 

7. ^ Mary, or Polly, b. in 1787, d. March, 
1873, unm. 

3. 5 Sarah, b. , m. Titus Reynolds. 

4. s j)e|-,orah, b. , m. April 2, 1778, 
Nathaniel Reynolds, b. Sept. 7, 1745, d. 
June 6, 1822. 

5. s Martha, b. , m. James Brush. 

6. 5 Rachel, b. , m. John Delavan. 

7. s Mary, b. April 11, 1761, d. June 11, 1791, 
m. July 6, 1778, Jonah Mead, b. Dec. 3, 
1748, d. Feb. 21, 1827. (See Mead Gene- 
alogy, page 278.) 

8. 5 Azuba, b. , m. Stephen Palmer. 

6. '•Abigail, b. , was the ist wife of David 
Reynolds. 

By 2d wife: 

7, ''Moses, b. about 1705, d. , m. Sept. 5, 

1726, Susannah, dau. of Ebenezer and Sarah 
(Knapp) Mead, b. in 1706, and had: 

1. s Moses, b. July 5, 1728, d. Nov., 1795, m, 

Lucy , b. July 24, 1731, d. July 30, 

1796, no children. 

2. s Susannah, b. April i, 1731, m. Peter 
Denton. 

3. s Abigail, b. June 7, 1734, d. Jan. 14, 1815, 
m. Israel Lyon. 

4. s Peter, b. May, 1742, d. March 24, 1821 , 
m. Feb. 11, 1768, Eunice, dau. of Caleb 
Lyon, b. April i, 1750, and had: 

1. ^Amos, b. Dec. 2, 1769, d, Sept. 8, 
1834, m. I St, Aug. 14, 1793, Eunice, 
dau. of Odle and Bethia (Reynolds) 
Close, b. Aug. 12, 1774, d. Feb. 14, 
182 1, m. 2d, Sarah, dau. of Ambrose 
and Mary Reynolds, b. in 1787, d. 
Oct. 26, 1847, and had by ist wife: 

1. 7 John A., b. in 1798, d. Jan. 17, 
1820. 

2. ^Esbon, b. , m. June6, 1815, 
Polly, dau. of Nathaniel Hib- 
bard, and had: ^Nathaniel S.. 
^ John E., and ^ Henry R. 

2. ^Cynthia, b. Sept. 22, 1770, d. 

m. Nov., 1791, Husted Hobby, or 
Squire Hobby. 



590 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 



3. ^ Peter, b. Oct. 11, 1772, d. March 13, 
1858, m. Dec. 4, 1803, Nancy, dau. of 
James and Martha Green, b. Feb. 10, 
1779, d. Sept. 20, 1866, and had: 
7 Caleb. 

4. ^ Elnathan, b. Jan. 16, 1775, d. Feb. i , 
1825, m. Nancy, dau. of Odle and 
Bethia (Reynolds) Close, b. March 
17, 1781, d. May 10, 1852, and had: 
I. 7 William A., b. Dec. 31, 1 801, d. 

Jan. 19, 1892, m. Dec. 12, 1822, 
Susannah Caroline, dau. of 
Squire Hobby, b. Nov. 23, 1803, 
d. Dec. 30, 1889, and had: 

1. ^ Elnathan, b. Sept. 27, 1823, 
Co. I, 17th Regt., C.V., d. 
March 4, 1864, m. Feb. 28, 
1855, Sarah L., dau. of Dan- 
iel and Sarah (Lyon) Mer- 
ritt, b. April 12, 1826, and 
had : ' Caroline and ' Au- 
gusta Willis. 

2. ^William F., b. , went 
West, and had several chil- 
dren. 

3. ^ George, b. Jan. 7, 1827, d. 
May 26, 1831. 

4. ^ Susannah, b. , d. 
young. 

5. ^Juanah, b. , d. young. 

6. * Lyman B., b. , m., 
and had several children. 

7. ^ Squire Jerome, b. , re- 
moved to Oyster Bay, L. L, 
m., and had: 'William E. 

8. ^ Mortimer, b. May i, 1834, 
d. Nov. 21, 1876, m., and 
had several children. 

9. * Nancy E., b. , m. 
John Andrews of Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

5. * Moses, b. Dec. 19, 1776, d. June 20, 
1842, m. 1st, April, 1798, Sarah 
Peck, b. March 25, 1779, d. March 
13. 1833, m. 2d, Jerusha, dau. of 
Daniel and Elizabeth (Treen) Lyon, 
b. March 24, 1786, d. Oct. 30, 1858, 
and had by ist wife: 

I. '' Samuel P., b. 



Husted Family 591 

2. 7 Alfred W., b. 

3. 7 Catharine J., b. 

4. 7 Peter, b. 

5. '' Sarah E., b. 

6. '5 Aaron, b. Jan. 23, 1779, d. Nov. 16, 
1851, m. May, 1805, Amy Hobby, b. 
May 19, 1788, d. Feb. 21, 1870, and 
had: 

1. 7 Harriet, b. Oct. 10, 1806, d. 
Dec. 27, 1834, unm. 

2. 7 Amos, b. April 19, 1808, d. 
Dec. 28, 1825, unm. 

3. 7 Silas, b. Nov. I, 1810, d. Nov. 
29, 1870, m. May 20, 1839, Mar- 
tha, dau. of Jabez and Laura 
(Davis) Mead, b. Sept. 5, 1816, 
d. April 6, 1885. (See Mead 
Genealogy, page 226 ) 

4. 7 Emily, b. Oct. 18, 1812, d. 
Sept. 22, 1838, unm. 

5- ^Job L., b. May 14, 1814, d. 
July 7, 1879, m. Elma, dau. of 
Edward and Sarah Brush, b. 
Jan. 3, 1815, d. Dec. 24, 1895. 

6. 7 Mills H., b. Nov. 28, 1821, d. 
Oct. 10, 1861, m. ist, Mary A., 
dau. of Edward and Ann (Inger- 
soll) Brush, b. Aug. 19, 1823, d. 
Dec. 7, 1852, m. 2d, Dec. 16, 
1856, Henrietta, dau. of David 
and Sally (Brundage) Brown, b. 
Aug. 10, 1838, d. Feb. 27, 1904. 

7. ^ Caleb, b. March 2, 1782, d. Aug. 7, 
1868, m. Sept. 24, 1810, Mary, dau. 
of Alexander Grigg, b. Aug. 24, 1793, 
d, Feb. 7, 1872, and had: 

1. 7 Cynthia E., b. Nov. 13, 1812, 
m. Feb. 25, 1833, Sanford Mead. 
(See Mead Genealogy, page 453.) 

2. 7 Mary Jane, b. 

3. 7 Caleb A., b. Aug. 20, 1820, d. 
Aug. 8, 1825. 

4. 7 Aaron, b. Dec. 26, 1826, d. May 

12, 1886, m. Sarah A., dau. of 
John and Sarah (Holly) Hub- 
bard, b. Jan. 24, 1818, d. May 

13, 1898. 

8. ^Eunice, b. Jan. 21, 1784, d. March 
15, 1876, m. Benjamin Close. 



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592 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



9. ^ Esbon, b. Feb. 25, 1787, d. Sept. 
1792. 

m. Roger Worden. 
, m. William Doty. 
, m. Margaret, dau. 



19, 



5. s Sarah, b. 

6. 5 Hannah, b. 

7. 5 Jabez, b. , m. Margaret, dau. of 
Israel Knapp. 

6. ^ Elizabeth, b. about 1656, m. Baldwin. 

7. 3 Moses, b. about 1659, removed, about 1697, to 
Cedar Creek, West Jersey. 

8. ^ John, b. about 1662, d. , m. Mary , and 

had: 

I. '•Nathaniel, and perhaps '♦Abigail, who 

m. Dec. 7, 1 72 1, Abraham Wanser, and had: 
5 Moses, b. Oct. 25, 1722. 

9. ^ Samuel, b. about 1665, d. in 1741, m. Sarah , 

d. at Stamford, Conn., Nov. 20, 1717, and had: 

1. '' Nathaniel, b. in 1698, d. April 9, 1758, unm. 

2. ''Joseph, b. about 1700, m. Dec. 2, 1731, 
Deborah Ferris, b. Aug. 27, 1706, and had: 

1. s Deborah, b. Aug. 5, 1732, m. April 28, 
1757, Charles Knapp, Jr. 

2. ^Joseph, b. June 17, 1733, d. June 23, 

1733- 

3. ^Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1734. 

4. 5 Abigail, b. Feb. 28, 1738, m. Nov. 14, 
1760, Lieut. Nathan Ferris. 

5. s Joseph, b. Oct. 11, 1739, m. Jan. 12, 
1764, Sarah Rogers, and had: 

1. '' Mary, bapt. Dec. 17, 1768. 

2. ^ Jared, b. 

6. s Elizabeth, b. Oct. 25, ./41. 

7. ^ Sarah, b. Jan. i, 1744. 

8. s Mary, b. Jan. 26, 1746, m. July 28, 1767, 
Joseph Webb, Jr. 

9. 5 Nathaniel, b. March 29, 1748, m. Jane 
, and had: 

I. ^Nathaniel, bapt. Sept. 4, 1774. 

3. " Zebulon, b. about 1702, m. Abigail , and 

had: 

1. ^ Samuel, b. Feb. 22, 1722, d. young. 

2. s Sarah, b. Nov. 22, 1736, m. Nov. 22, 
1759, Josiah Waterbury. 

3. ^Samuel, b. Oct. 7, 1738. 

4. 5 Abigail, b. Dec. 30, 1740, m. Jan. 7, 1762, 
Peter Weed. 

5. ^ Hannah, b. March 14, 1743. 

6. ^ Nathaniel, b. May 19, 1746, m. April 14, 

1768, Hannah Webb. 

7. s James, b. Aug. 11, 1748. 



Ingersoll Family 593 

8. s Thaddeus, b. Aug. 31, 1750, m. May 25, 

1775. Rhoda Davenport. 

9. s Mary, bapt. Aug. 5, 1755. 

10. s Martha, twin sister of Mary, bapt. Aug. 

5. 1755- 

4. "* Elizabeth, b. , d. in 1730, m. John Adams, 
b. Sept. 6, 1692. 

5. '^ Sarah, b. 

6. 4 Deborah, b. 

INGERSOLL FAMILY. 

This family descends from the IngersoUs of Hampshire, 
England. ^John Ingersoll, bom about 1640, was an early 
settler at Huntington, Long Island, where he died in 1694, 
married about 1672, Jane , and had: 

1. ^ John, b. May 11, 1674, removed to Stamford, Conn. 

2. ^ Jane, b. June 9, 1676, m. Adam Whitehead. 

3. ^ Simon, b. Aug. 31 , 1678, removed to Greenwich, Conn., 
m. , and had (perhaps also some daughters) : 

I. 3 Simon, b. about 1710, d. in 1758, m. ist, Jan. 17, 
1 734, Hannah Palmer, m. 2d, Anne Palmer, and had : 

1. ''John, b. Oct. 18, 1734. 

2. ''Simon, b. about 1736, d. in 1777, m. Eliza- 
beth Scofield, b. Jan. 1,1740, d. July i, 1813, 
and had : 

1. 5 Sarah, b. , m. Stephen Lockwood. 

2. s Simon, b. , and perhaps others. 

3. '' Benjamin, b. about 1739, d. in 1777, m. 
Mercy , and had: 

1. 'John, b. , m. Chloe Holly. 

2. 5 Polly, b. , and perhaps others. 

4. '' Sarah, b. , m. David Wood of Stanwich. 

5. " Nathaniel, b. April 14, 1754, d. Nov. 16, 1834, 
m. May 21, 1778, Abigail, dau. of Nathaniel 
and Sarah (Lockwood) Reynolds, b. Dec. 1 1 , 
1749, d. March 27, 1839, and had: 

1. s Hannah, b. Oct. 15, 1779, d. May 2, 1787. 

2. 5 Abigail, b. May 8, 1781, d. April 7, 1876, 
m. 1st, Horton Reynolds, m. 2d, Dr. 
Shadrach Mead. 

3. s Nathaniel, b. Feb. 19, 1783, d. April 16, 
1824, m. Abigail Webber, b. Jan. 14, 1786, 
d. June 15, 1830, and had: 

I. ^ Isaac, b. , m. Lydia , and 

had : ^ Caroline, ' William, '' Belle, 
and ^ Lydia, removed to Detroit, 
Mich. 
38 



594 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

2. ^ Roswell R., b. , m. Caroline 
Merritt, b. June lo, 1817, d. Oct. 10, 
1875, and had: 'Cecelia, 'Abigail 
R., ' Emeline, and ' George N., 
removed to New York City. 

3. 6 John N., b. , m. Tillie , 

and had : ' Lottie and ' Ward, 
removed to Detroit, Mich. 

4. ^ David D., b. Jan. 11, 1814, d. Aug. 

16, 1832, unm. 

5. ^ Mary E., d. young. 

4. s Rebecca, b. April 26, 1785, d. Feb. 21, 
i860, unm. 

5. 5 Joseph, b. July 3, 1787, d. Dec. 12, 1862, 
m. 1st, April 27, 1818, Mary, dau. of 
Mills and Ruth (Holmes) Hobby, b. July 
II, 1796, d. July 7, 1823, m. 2d, widow 
Rachel (Brown) Halsey, b. Nov. 22, 1788, 
d. Aug. 2, 1845, and had: 

1. ^ Mary Ann, b. Feb. 8, 1819, d. Nov. 

17, 1903, m. Nov. 25, 1838, Gideon 
Close. 

2. ^Emeline M., b. Sept. 4, 1820, d. 
Oct. 26, 1898, m. June 6, 1848, Shad- 
rach M. Brush, b. Dec. 11, 1818, d. 
July II, 1903. 

6. s Ann, b. June 29, 1789, d. Sept. 28, i860, 
m. Edward Brush, b. in 1791, d. Aug. 10, 
1825. 

7. 5 John, b. Dec. 9, 1791, d. Oct. 5, 1817. 

8. 5 Hannah, b. Jan. 31, 1795, d. Sept. 24, 
1882, unm. 

6. ''Joseph, b. about 1756, d. in 1784, m. , 
and had a child four years old at the time of 
his death, name not given. 

7. ''Hannah, b. , m. before 1786, Benoni 
Piatt of North Castle, N. Y. 

8. '' Deborah, b. , m. before 1786, Nehemiah 
Brown of Greenwich. 

2. 3 Samuel, b. , m. May 15, 1735, Elizabeth 

Rowel, and had: 
I. "Elizabeth, b. Nov. 22, 1737. 



"Jemima, b. Jan. 24, 1740, d. young. 

"Jemima, b. in 1741. 

" Lydia, b. July, 1742. 

"Anne, b. Oct. 15, 1744. 

"Samuel, b. Dec. 24, 1746, d. Jan. 23, 1747. 

"Samuel, b. Jan. 3, 1748. 

"Benjamin, b. Jan. 28, 175c. 



Knapp Family 595 

9. ''Abigail, b. Jan. 2, 1753. 
10. "• Ruhema, b. Aug. 4, 1755. 

3. ^ Daniel, b. , m. April 7, 1741, Martha Briggs. 

4. ^ Josiah, b. , m. June 16, 1742, Rebecca, dau. 
of Samuel and Hannah (Hardy) Rundle, b. Feb. 
26, 1718, and had: 

1. '♦Gideon, b. March 16, 1743. 

2. '' Josiah, b. Sept. 10, 1744.'' 

3. '♦Rebecca, b. Nov. 16, 1746. 

4. "♦ Sarah, b. 

5. " Hannah, b. 

4. ^ Daniel, b. Sept. 13, 1680. 

KNAPP FAMILY. 

'Nicholas Knapp, the ancestor of the Knapp family 
of Greenwich and Stamford, Conn., and Rye, N. Y., 
■probably came from England in the fleet with Winthrop 
and Saltonstall, in 1630, and first settled in Watertown, 

Mass., where he married Eleanor . He later removed 

to Wethersfield, Conn., and finally settled in Stamford, 
Conn., in 1649, where he died Sept. 16, 1670. His wife, 
Eleanor, died at Stamford, Aug. 16, 1658. He married, 
2d, Jan. 9, 1659, Unica, widow of Peter Brown, who 
had also been the widow of Clement Buxton. His step- 
children were: Sarah and Unica, daughters of Clement 
Buxton. His children were all by his first wife : ^ Jonathan, 
"Timothy, "Joshua, "Caleb, "Sarah, "Ruth, "Hannah, 
" Moses, and " Lydia. 

1. " Jonathan, b. Oct. 13, 1630, d. age two weeks. 

2. " Timothy, b. Oct. 14, 1632, removed to Rye, N. Y., in 
1664, and d. there, m. Bertha, dau. of John Brundage 
of Wethersfield, Conn., and had: ^ Timothy, and per- 
haps others. 

3. " Joshua, b. Nov. 5, 1634, one of the original patentees 
named in the patent granted to the Town of Greenwich, 
by the General Assembly in May, 1665, d. at Greenwich, 
about Oct. 27, 1684, m. June 9, 1657, Hannah, dau. of 
Goodman Close, b. about 1632, d. in 1696, as Mrs. Han- 
nah Bowers, widow of John Bowers. His children 
were: 

1. 3 Hannah, b. March 26, 1660, m. Daniel Smith. 

2. 3 Joshua, b. in 1663, d. before 1750, m. ist, March 
16, 1687, Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Reynolds, 
m. 2d, Abigail Butler, d. June i, 17 10, and had: 

1. '♦ Elizabeth, b. in 1688, m. John Rundle. 

2. 4 Isaac, b. , m. Jan. 29, 1727, Rebecca, 



596 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



dau. of Jonathan and Rebecca (Seaman) 
Reynolds, b. Feb. 12, 1704, and had: 

1. s Isaac, b. May 27, 1729. 

2. 5 Samuel, b. June 24, 1731, and perhaps 
others. 

4 Jonathan, b. about 1702, d. , m. Mary, 

dau. of Angell Husted, and had (perhaps also 
some daughters) : 

I. ^Jonathan, Jr., b. about 1727, d. in 1766, 
m. Susannah , and had: 



^ Jonathan, b. 
^ Peter, b. 
^ Silas, b. 
^ Rachel, b. 
^ Hannah, b. 
^ Susannah, b. 
^Abigail, b. 



m. Joshua Mead. 



I 
2 
3 
4 

5 
6 

, m. Halsey Mead. 
5 Joshua, b. in 1729, d. Oct. 15, 1798, m. 
Eunice, dau. of Theophilus and Elizabeth 
(Mead) Peck, b. April 9, 1735, d. July 8, 
1828, and had: 

1. ^Eunice, b. Feb. 12, 1755, m. Josiah 
Purdy. 

2. ^ Mary, b. Nov. 6, 1756, m. Ambrose 
Reynolds. 

3. ^ Shubel, b. Nov. 21, 1757, d. Oct. 10, 
1 83 1, m. Rebecca Mead. 

4. ^Joshua, b. Jan. 6, 1761, a Revolu- 
tionary soldier, d. Feb. 10, 1831, m., 
1788, Charity, dau. of Nathaniel 
Mead, b. in 1762, d. Nov. 16, 1847, 
and had : 

I. ^ Nathaniel, b. Feb. 27, 1790, d. 
Jan. 4, 1836, m. May 17, 1812, 
Elizabeth C, dau. of Odle and 
Hannah (Brush) Close, b. April 
20, 1793, d. Nov. 25, 1840, and 
had: 

1. ^Elizabeth C, b. May 5, 
1813, m. Caleb Purdy. 

2. »Qdle C, b. May 26, 1815, 
d. Nov. 15, 1888, m. ist, 
Jan. 19, 1841, Caroline B., 
dau. of Guy B. Hobby, b. 
Nov. 25, 1818, d. Feb. 27, 
1848, m. 2d, March 8, 1849, 
Eunice A., dau. of Abraham 
Brown, b. Aug. 23, 1822, d. 
March 5, 1879, m. 3d, Mary 



; 



Knapp Family 597 

A. Howland, and had by 
1st wife: 'Cornelia and 
Joshua, by 2d wife: 
"Sarah, "Caroline H., 
"Anna M., "Charles O., 
"Kate A., "John F., and 
" Nathaniel A. 

3. * Joshua, b. in 1818, d. June 
27, 1845. 

4. ^ Nathaniel A., b. Feb. 25, 
1821, d. Feb. 10, 1876, m. 
March 8, 1847, Catharine 
A. Roberts of New York, b. 
Oct. 26, 1824, d. May 23, 
1899, and had: 

" Henry C, " Mary E., 
" Katie, " Augustus, and 
" Josephine. 

5. * Hannah C.,b. ,m. ist, 
Edward B. Corwin, m. 2d, 
Richard B. Bull. 

6. ^ Eunice A., b. in 1826. d. 
Feb. 23, 1847. 

7. ^ Sarah M., b. in 1832, d. 
June 9, 1848. 

2. '' Charity, b. in 1791, d. Nov. 18, 

1793- 

3. ''Joshua, b. , m. Maria 
Francis. 

4. '' Samuel, b. , m. Patience 
M. Dickinson. 

5. 7 Rachel, b. March 10, 1794, m. 
Abraham Brown. 

6. ''Eunice, b. in 1795, d. Aug. 21, 

1817. 

7. ^ Charity B., b. , d. Feb. 29, 
1868. 

8. 'Jasper M., b. in 1803, d. Dec. 

29. 1835- 

9. ■'Sarah,b.ini8io, d. Dec.2,1836. 

5. * Sarah, b. June 5, 1763, d. Dec. 18, 

1802. 

6. ^ Isaac, b. Aug. 13, 1764, removed to 
New Fairfield, Conn., d. in 1838. 

7. ^ Rachel, b. Oct. 31, 1765, d. Feb. 14, 
1807. 

8. ^ Samuel, b. in 1769. 

9. ^ Benjamin, b. Jan. I, 1772, m.- Abi- 

gail Brush. 



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5- 
6. 

7. 



10. ^ Reuben, b. March i6, 1774, d. Nov. 
25, 1852. 

^ Enoch, b. Oct. 8, 1776, d. Dec. 25, 
1830. 
^ Jared, b. March 15, 1779, d. April 8, 

1839. 
"* Ebenezer, b. , m. Jan. 7, 1724, EHzabeth 

Finch, and had: 



II. 



12. 



5 EHzabeth, b. Oct. 14, 1725. 
5 Sarah, b. Feb. 20, 1727. 
^ Ebenezer, b. May 23, 1730. 
s Ezekiel, b. Dec. 22, 1734. 

Aug. 6, 1737. 

Feb. 21, 1739. 



5 Reuben, b. 

5 Hannah, b. 
"^ Sarah, b. 
"^ Rebecca, b. 

''John, b. March 10, 1708, d. , m. Jan. 14, 
1730, Abigail, dau. of Joseph Close, b. June i, 
1710, and had: 



I. 

2. 
3- 



s John, b. Nov. 24, 1731. 

5 Abigail, b. Feb. 5, 1733. 

s Justus, b. Jan. 19, 1735, d. 

Sarah , b. Sept. 11, 1737, and 



, m. 
had: 



^Justus, b. Oct. II, 1756. 
^William, b. Jan. 5, 1759. 
^ Elnathan, b. Aug. 5, 1761. 
^ Henry, b. Aug. 25, 1763. 
^ Benjamin, b. Sept. 16, 1764. 
19, 1737, d. 



4. 5 Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1737, 0. young. 

5. ^ Stephen, b. Dec. 30, 1739, d. in 1777, m. 
Aug. 8, 1774, Sarah, dau. of Captain 
Joseph Hobby, b. June 5, 1748. 

6. s Eii^ b peb. 22, 1 741. 

7. 5 Rebecca, b. June 21, 1744. 

8. s Israel, b. March 18, 1746. 

3. ^ Joseph, b. in 1665, d. in 1723, m. Mrs. Mary Lock- 
wood Husted, widow of Jonathan Husted, and dau. 
of Robert and Susannah Lock wood, no issue. 

4. 3 Ruth, b. in 1667, m. John Reynolds. 

5. 3 Timothy, b. in 1669, d. at Greenwich in 1733, m. 
1st, March 16, 1699, Elizabeth Seymour, d. June 
17, 1713, m. 2d, Feb. 16, 1714, Martha Weeks, and 
had by ist wife: 

1. ''Rebecca, b. Sept. 24, 1701, m. Abraham 
Benedict of Danbury, Conn. 

2. "Timothy, b. Aug. 9, 1703, d. April 22, 1706. 

3. " Israel, Captain and Innkeeper, b. Dec. 13, 
1705, d. in 1783, m. ist, Mary, dau. of Thomas 
and Abigail (Ogden) Lyon, m. 2d, Aug., 1742, 



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Amy, dau. of Joseph and Mary Marshall, m, 
3d, Jan. 7, 1762, Elizabeth, -VNddow of Dr. 
Thomas Hugerford, and had by ist wife: 
I. s ximothy, b. about 1730, m. Sept. 14, 
1 75 1, Ruth, dau. of Thomas and Hannah 
(Lyon) Close, b. Aug. 2, 1735, and had: 
I. 



« Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1753. 
^Thomas, b. Jan. 7, 1754. 



2. 



^ Matthew, b. Feb. 8, 1756. 

^ Ruth, b. Nov. 27, 1757. 

^Timothy, b. Dec. 20, 1759. 

^Israel, b. Nov. 17, 1763. 

^ Elizabeth, b. Aug. 20, 1765. 
s Mary, b. about 1732, m. June 23, 1755, 
Stephen Mead. (See Mead Genealogy, 
page 419.) 

3. 5 Elizabeth, d. unm. 

4. 5 Hannah, b. March 16, 1740, d. Feb. 16, 
1825, m. Abraham Husted. 

By 2d wife : 

5. s Israel, b. May i, 1743, d. Aug. 20, 1790, 
m. about 1767, Margaret Hugerford, and 
had: 
I. ^ Fanny, bapt. Feb. 12, 1769, d. June 

II, 1788, m. William A. Thompson. 

^ Israel, bapt. Oct. 14, 1770, d. 

young. 

^Frances, b. in 1771, m, Charles K. 

Thompson. 

" Sally W., bapt. Feb. 13, 1774, m. 

David Wood. 

^ Elizabeth H., b. Aug. 28, 1777, d. in 

1848, m. Oct. 8, 1795, John Mackay, 

Jr. 

6. ^Anna, bapt. March 17, 1782, m. 
William Thome. 

7. ^Cornelia, bapt. Jan. 6, 1788. d. in 
New Orleans, m. Read. 

6. s Amy, b. March i, 1748, d. young. 

7. 5 Amy, b. April i, 1752, m. Captain Jabez 
Fitch. 

4 Mary, b. April 16, 1708, m. Thomas Hoyt of 

Danbury, Conn. 

"Elizabeth, b. Aug. 22, 1710, m. Ebenezer 

Pickett of Danbury, Conn. 

" Prudence, b. Jan. 20, 17 13. 
By 2d wife : 
7. "Ruth, b. Feb. 24, 1715, m. Dec. 6, 1733, 

Nathaniel Lockwood. 



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8. ''Hannah, b. Jul}^ 12, 1717, m. Sept. 19, 1732, 

Nathaniel Finch. 
3 Benjamin, b. in 1673, d. at Greenwich in 1716, m. 
Feb. 28, 1700, EHzabeth, dau. of Walter Butler, 
she m. 2d — ■ — Seager, and had: 

1. '•Martha, b. Feb. 28, 1701, m. Feb. 29, 1720, 
Joseph Palmer. 

2. 'I Ruth, b. Aug. 22, 1702, m. Abraham Hub- 
bard. 

3. ''Benjamin, b. April 17, 1704, d. in 1772, m. 
June 3, 1 73 1, Susannah Miller (removed to 
Orange County, N. Y.), and had: 

1. s Benjamin, b. Feb. 27, 1732. 

2. 5 Elizabeth, b. June 23, 1733. 

3. s Samuel, b. May 19, 1735. 

4. s Susannah, b. 

5. s Daniel, b. 

6. s Rachel, b. 

7. 5 Mary, b. 

8. ^ Hannah, b. 

9. 5 Deborah, b. 
10. ^ Rebecca, b. 

4. ''Joshua, b. Dec. 12, 1705, d. in 1776, m. , 
and had : 

, m. Hobby. 

, m. David Mead. 



s Sarah, b. 
5 Isabel, b. 
s Susannah, b. 
5 Ann, b. 
s Martha, b. 
s Abraham, b. 
5 Ezekiel, b. 
s Joshua, b. 



m. Murphy. 

, m. Charles Green. 



5. ''Joseph, b. Dec. 13, 1707, m. Elizabeth , 

and had : 

1. s Deborah, b. Oct. 22, 1731. 

2. s Elizabeth, b. Aug. 26, 1733. 

3. sRuth, b. July II, 1736. 

4. 5 Joseph, b. July 11, 1736. 

5. s Joel, b. 

6. s Martha, b. 

7. s Phebe, b. 

6. 4 David, b. Feb. 17, 1709, d. in 1774, m. Jan. 7, 
1735, Rachel, dau. of Joseph Close, b. Feb. 12, 
1715, and had: 

1. s David, b. Oct. 22, 1735. 

2. s Rebecca, b. July 18, 1737, m. Dec. 10, 
1760, Theophilus Peck. 

3. s Phineas, b. July 30, 1739. 

4. s Rachel C, b. Nov. 26, 1741. 



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I 



5. s Eunice, b. Jan. 22, 1743, m. Joseph 
Hobby. 

6. sEben. b. Feb. 24, 1746. 

7. s Elizabeth, b. April 4, 1748. 

8. 5 Nezer, b. in 1750. 

9. s Joseph, b. Oct. 12, 1754. 

7. "James, b. Nov. 28, 171. -— n,^^ 

8. " Daniel, b. April 2, 1714, d. in 1737, unm. \ 

9. 4 Elizabeth, b. Feb. 18, I7i6,m. June 10, 1736, 
\rl Charles Smith. 

7. 3 Caleb, b. in 1677, d. at Greenwich in 1750, m. 
April I, 1697, Sarah, dau. of WilHam Rundle, and 
had: 

I. 4 Caleb, b. Nov. 11, 1698, d. in 1763, m. 
Clemence, dau. of Samuel Mills, and had: 
I. s Sarah, b. Oct. 9, 1720, m. Joseph Hobby, 
b. Dec. 23, 1716. ^ ,y 

- s Clemence, b. Dec. 31, 1722, m. -/4.^^-^^<— 
Bush. 

s Caleb, b. Nov. 9, J 724, removed to 
Goshen, N. Y. /Vv^ X.>'M -/ /'>t<.n.^./^_ 

4. s Amy, b. Nov. 23, 1726, iri'. ist, Ebenezer 
Mead, Jr., m. 2d, Benjamin Hobby. 

5. s Mills, b. Feb. 7, 1728, d. young. 

6. s Titus, b. Feb. 7, 1728, d. before 1771, m. 

Alethea , d. in 1778, and had: 

I ' ' 



^ Joseph, b. 
^ Abraham, b. 



^ Samuel, b 

^ Caleb, b. 

^ Gilbert, b. 

^ Andrew, b. 

<* Walter, b. 
s' Justus, b. April i, 1731. 
s Charity, b. Dec. 5, 1733, m. Joseph Lock- 
wood. 

s Hannah, b. Jan. 22, 1735, m. Nathaniel 
Close. 

s Amos, b. June i, 1742. 
s Mary, b. , m. William Reynolds, 

s Lydia, b. , m. Horton Reynolds. 

"Nathaniel, b. in 1700, m. Rebecca, dau. of 
Daniel Smith, and had: 

I. s Uriah, bapt. June 9, 1728, m. , and 

had: 

1. ^Solomon, b. Dec. 19, 1757- 

2. *Ruth, b. Sept. 26, 1761. 

3. ^ James, b. in 1764, m. Jan. 6, 1791, 
Hannah, dau. of Stephen and Lois 



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12 



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(Todd) Holly, b. Feb. ii, 1770, 

removed to Genoa, N. Y. 
5 Sylvanus, b. , d. in 1786, m. Eunice, 

dau. of David Husted, and had: 
I. ^John, Jr., b. in I77i, d. March 17, 



2. 
3- 



^John, Jr., b. in 1771, d. 

1858. 

^Rebecca, b. in 1775. 

^ Lydia, b. in 1778. 



3. ■* Charles, b. Feb. 24, 1705, d. in 1773, m. Nov. 
13, 1729, Elizabeth Wicks. 

4. '' Sarah, b. June 27, 1708. 

5. '' Deborah, b. Aug. 25, 1710. 

6. ''Abigail, b. about 1712, m. Nathaniel James. 

7. '' Nehemiah, b. Oct. 15, 1714, m. Abigail, dau. 
of Joseph Ferris. 

8. ''Timothy, b. Jan. 27, 1717. 

8. ^Jonathan, b. in 1679, probably d. young. 
4. ^ Caleb, b. Nov. 20, 1636, d. at Stamford, Conn., in 
1677, m. Hannah, dau. of Henry Smith, and had: 
I. ^ Caleb, b. Nov. 24, 1661, d. , m. Sept. 23, 

1694, Hannah Clements, and had: 
I. 4 Caleb, b. Sept. 30, 1695. 

''William, b. Dec. 15, 1697. 

'' Sarah, b. Jan. 18, 1699. 

''Abigail, b. Jan. 9, 1702. 

''Joshua, b. April 10, 1704. 

'' Joseph, b. in 1706. 

''Hannah, b. April 10, 1710. 

''Jonathan, b. Jan. 12, 1713. 

''Benjamin, b. Aug. i, 1717, in Norwalk, 

Conn. 

''Reuben, b. Aug. i, 1717, do. 
^ John, Captain, b. July 25, 1664, d. at Stamford, 
April 4, 1749, m. ist, June 10, 1692, Hannah 
Ferris, m. 2d, Dec. 21, 1727, Martha Mead, and 
had: 

I. ''Samuel, Lieut., b. Aug. 27, 1695, d. at Stam- 
ford, Aug. 21, 1 75 1, m. Martha Holly, and 

had: 

1. ^ John, b. Oct. 12, 1721, d. unm. 

2. s Samuel, b. Dec. 2, 1722, d. in 1751, m. 
Mercy Bouton, no issue. 

3. ^ Reuben, b. April 3, 1724, d. in 1764, m. 
I St, June I, 1749, Mary Bouton, d. March 
14, 1750, m. 2d, Oct. 20, 1751, Anne 
Johnson, and had by ist wife: 

1. ^ Bouton, b. March 9, 1750. 
By 2d wife : 

2. ^Samuel, b. Aug. 13, 1758. 



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Knapp Family 603 

3. 6 Thomas, b. Nov. 2, 1759, d. young. 

4. ^ Elizabeth, b. about 1761. 

4. s David, b. Nov. 20, 1725. 

5. s Hannah, b. Jan. 22, 1726, d. March 2, 
1727. 

6. s James, b. May 15, 1728. 

7. 5 Martha, b. Jan. 28, 1730, d. March 15, 

s Caleb, b. Dec. 12, 1731, d. m 1761, unm. 
s Elizabeth, b. Dec. 20, 1733, m. ist, 
Nathaniel Palmer, m. 2d, Enos Lock- 
wood. 
ID. 5 Nathan, b. June 12, 1735, d. Jan. 27, 

1797, m. ist, Sept. 23, 1761, Rebecca 

Wardwell, d. Feb. 17, 1767, m. 2d, Jan. 

22, 1770, Mary Lockwood, and had by 

ist wife: 

1. 6 Nathan, b. Sept. 2, 1762, m. Jan. 
26, 1787, Sarah Morehouse, 

2. ^ Caleb, b. Jan. 2, 1764. 

3. 6 Rebecca, b. Feb. 17, 1767- 
By 2d wife : 

4. 6 Adam, b. Jan. 31, I77i- 

5. 6 Noah, b. Dec. 5. 1773. d. May 24, 

1777- 

6. «Abel, b. June 15, 1776. 

7. «Noah, b. May i, 1781. 

8. « Mary S., b. March 28, 1785- 

II. s Thankful, b. Dec. 24, 1736, d. Apnl 6, 

1739. 
12 s Amos, b. Feb. 28, I739, d. July 29, 1781. 
13. s Daniel, b. Sept. 25, 1741. d. m 1761, 

unm. 
4 John, Lieut., b. Aug. 14, i697. d. May, 1763, 
m. ist. May 23, 1723, Deborah, dau of 
Nathaniel Cross, d. Dec. 4, i735. m. 2d July 
I, 1736, Abigail, dau. of Samuel Hait, and had 

by ist wife; -, • /- x^f 

1 s John, b. in 1724. d. m 1764, m- ist, 

Tan II 1749, Hannah Blackman, m. 
2d, * Nov. 10, 1 761, Rhoda Ferris June, 

widow. ^ J -o 1 ^^ 

2 5 Nathaniel, b. Nov. 29, 1726, d. Feb 22, 

1812, m. May 31. 1751. Jemima Ward, b. 
in 1732, d. in 1805, and had: 
I 6 Nathaniel, b. July 6, I753- 
2. ^Uzal, b. Oct. 22, 1763- 

3 s Abigail, b. in 1728, m. 

4. 5 Deborah, b. June 2, 1730, d. umn. 



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By 2d wife: 

5. s Susannah, b. March 27, 1737, m. Samuel 
Brown. 

6. 5 Israel, b. March 28, 1738. 

7. 5 Rebecca, b. Jan. 9, 1740, d. young. 

8. s Hannah, b. Nov. 18, 1741, d. March 20, 
1742. 

9. s Samuel, b. May 9, 1744, d. Dec. 22, 

1810, m. April 2, 1761, Susannah Scofield, 
and had : 

1. ^ Jacob, b. Dec. 25, 1761, m. Mary 
Smith. 

2. ^Joshua, b. Jan. 30, 1763, m. Phebe 
Nichols. 

3. ^Abigail, b. March 26, 1765, d. Jan. 
3, 1766. 

4. ^Abigail, b. Sept. 26, 1766, m. David 
Knapp. 

5. ^ Samuel, b. Dec. 29, 1768. 

6. ^Stephen, b. Jan. 16, 1772. 

7. ^ Mary, b. March 27, 1774, m,^ John 
Nichols. 

8. ^ Prudence, b. July 17, 1776, m. 
Ebenezer Waterbury. 

9. * Isaac, b. Oct. 19, 1778, d. in 1833. 
ID. ^Susannah, b. March 22, 1781. 

II. ^ Nancy, b. June 13, 1785, m. Ralph 
Newman . 
ID. s Hannah, b. about 1745. 
II. 5 Mary, b. May 5, 1747. 

3. '^ Hannah, b. March 10, 1699, m. June 16, 1716, 
Isaac Quintard. 

4. " Peter, b. Aug. 15, 1701, m. ist, June 30, 1726, 
Elizabeth Slason, d. May 12, 1733, m. 2d, 
March 21, 1734, Mary Slason, and had by ist 
wife: 

1. s Hannah, b. April 21, 1727. 

2. s Elizabeth, b. June 14, 1728. 

3. s Sarah, b. June 5, 1730, m. Aug. 17, 1752, 
Austin Smith. 

4. s Mary, b. May 4, 1733. 
By 2d wife : 

5. s Abigail, b. Feb. 14, 1735. m. June 19, 
1755, Samuel Buxton. 

6. s Deborah, b. Sept. 2, 1739, m. Oct. 17, 
1765, Amos Smith. 

7. 5 Peter, b. about 1745, m. Feb. i, 1770, 
Sarah Reynolds. 

5. ■♦ Charles, Ensign, b. May 9, 1703, d. Sept. 27, 



Knapp Family 605 

1773, m. June 17, 1731, Bethia Weed, b. in 
1708, d. Oct. 25, 1771, and had: 

1. 5 Charles, b. July 18, 1732, d. Oct. 29, 
1794, m. April 29, 1757, Deborah Husted, 
b. in 1735, d. Oct. 23, 1790 and had: 

1. ^ Betsy, bapt. May 31, 1759, d. 
young. 

2. ^ Sarah, b. Nov. 30, 1759, m. Alex- 
ander Mills. 

3. ^ Elizabeth, bapt. Jan. 3, 1762. 

4. ^ Betsy, b. May 5, 1766, m. John 
Bedient. 

5. ^ William, b. Oct. 10, 1769, d. Sept. 18, 
1842, m. Mary . 

2. s Sarah, b. April 22, 1734, d. Aug. 20, 1808, 
m. Jan., 1756, Nehemiah Mead. 

3. s Hannah, b. March 29, 1736, d. July 7, 
1810, m. ist, Dec, 24, 1755, John Clock, 
m. 2d, Enos Lockwood. 

4. s Bethia, b. June 12, 1738, d. Feb. 23, 
1807, unm. 

5. s Jonas, b. Aug. 25, 1740, d. before 1807, 

6. 5 Epenetus, b. May 19, 1742. 

7. 5 Gideon, b. Dec. i, 1744, d. Aug. 13, 
1806, unm. 

8. ssylvanus, b. Nov. 30, 1746, d. July 23, 
181C, m. May 7, 1767, Abigail Weed, b. 
in 1742, d. Aug. 20, 1830, and had: 

1. ^ Jonas, bapt. June 25, 1768. 

2. ^ Sarah, b. July 5, 1767, m. Eliphalet 
St John. 

3. ^ Benjamin, b. May 2, 1773- 

4. ^ Charles, b. Oct. 19, 1779, d. Dec. 14, 
1840, m. April 4, 1804, Elizabeth 
Lockwood. 

5. <* Mary B., b. July 13, 1783. 

6. ^ Epenetus, b. June 5, 1785. 

9. sHezekiah, b. Oct. 14, 1749. d- Dec. 11, 
1840, m. Aug. 8, 1775, Mary, dau. of 
Samuel Peck of Greenwich, Conn., b. 
Nov. 13, 1752, d. Sept. 19, 1842, and 
had: 

1. 6 Mary (Polly), b. July 18, 1776, m. 
April 10, 1796, Rufus Newman. 

2. ^ Hannah, b. March 12, 1778, d. Aug. 
16, 1849, m. March 24, 1799, Isaac 
Ward well. 

3. ^ Rufus, b. Aug. 19, 1780, d. Sept. 16, 
1853, m. ist, Feb. 7, 1804, Elizabeth 



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6. 

7- 



Scofield, m. 2d, June i8, 1817, Betsy- 
Howe. 

4. ^ Sally, b. Nov. 18, 1785, m. Feb. 9, 
1806, John Scofield. 

5. ^ Luther, b. Aug. 25, 1788, m. Oct. 
25, 1 814, Hannah Selleck. 

6. ^ Bethia, b. Jan. 15, 1795, d. Jan. 26, 
1852, m. Charles S. Gaylor. 

''Deborah, b. June 28, 1705, m. ist, Dec. i, 
1726. William King. d. Dec. 23, 1753, m. 2d, 
Pierre Quintard. 

^ Moses, b. Aug. 6, 1709, d. June 9, 1787, m. ist, 
Nov. 25, 1731, Jemima, dau. of Ebenezer 
Mead, m. 2d, May 12, 1767, Rachel Weed 
(removed to Litchfield, Conn.), and had: 

1. 5 jejnij-na^ Tq jaj^ g^ 1733, m. Dec. 12, 
1 75 1, David Waterbury. 

2. s Ebenezer, b. Aug. 4, 1734. 

3. 5 Moses, b. June 5, 1736. 

4. ^Abraham, b. Dec. 28, 1737. 

5. s Tamison, b. July 28, 1739, m. Feb. 13, 
1769, Titus Lockwood. 

6. ^ jabez, b. June 24, 1741. 

7. 5 Phebe, b. June 10, 1743. 

8. s Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1745. 

9. ^ Jane, b. March 3, 1747. 

10. ^ Isaac, b. April 14, 1750. 

11. sjaj.g(^^ b j^iy 27, 1751, d. Oct. 22, 1848, 
m. in 1796, Catharine Baldwin. 

3. * Moses, b. in 1666, d. in 1753, m. Oct. 30, 1689, 
Elizabeth Crissy (removed to Reading, Conn.), 
and had: 

I . ^ Elizabeth, b. Sept. 7, 1690, and perhaps others. 

4. 3 Samuel, b. in 1668, d. in 1739, m. Hannah Bush- 
nell, removed to Danbury, Conn. 

5. 3 Sarah, b. in 1670, m. Ebenezer Mead. 

6. 3 Hannah, b. in 1672. 

^ Sarah, b. Nov. 5, 1638, m. Feb. 2, 1657, John Disbrow. 

^ Ruth, b. Nov. 6, 1640, m. Sept. 20, 1657, Joseph 

Ferris. 

^ Hannah, b. March 6, 1642. 

'' Moses, b. about 1645, m. in 1669, Abigail, dau. of 

Richard Westcott, and had: 

I. 



3 Lydia, b. about 1670, d 
1685, Thomas Penoyer. 



Feb. 9, 1710, m. May 2, 
about 1672, m. Dec. i, 1692, John 



3- 
4- 



^ Abigail, b 

Crissy. 

3 Sarah, b. about 1674, m. Samuel Husted. 

^ Hannah, b. about 1676, m. ist, Nov. 6, 



1696, 




ROBERT B. MILLER, EDITOR OF THE "LYON 
MEMORIAL, NEW YORK FAMILIES." 



Marshall Family 607 

Nathaniel Cross, m. 2d, March 31, 17 15, Samuel 
Palmer. 
9. ^ Lydia, b. about 1646, m. Richard Mills. 

Roger Knapp, of Fairfield, Conn., belongs to an entirely 
different family. His daughter, Lydia, married Isaac Hall. 

LOCKWOOD FAMILY. 

^Robert Lockwood came from England about 1630, 
and first settled in Watertown, Mass.; removed about 1646 
to Fairfield, Conn., where he died in 1658; married Susannah 

, who after his death married Jeffrey Ferris, and died 

in Greenwich, Conn., Dec. 23, 1660. The Lockwood chil- 
dren were : ^ Jonathan, ^ Deborah, ^ Joseph, ^ Daniel, 
^Ephraim, ^Gershom, ^John, ^Abigail, ^ Sarah, and ^Mary. 

For the genealogy of this family, see the Lockwood Family 
in America, by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, 
published in 1889. 

LYON FAMILY. 

'Thomas Lyon, bom in England, about 1621, probably 
came to America in the fleet with Winthrop and Salton- 
stall in 1630; married, ist, Martha Joanna Winthrop of 
Salem, Mass., died about 1654; married 2d, Mary, daughter 
of Simon Hoyt, of Stamford, Conn. He died at Greenwich, 
Conn., in 1690. His children were: ^ Mary, =" Abigail, 
^ John, ^ Thomas, ' Samuel, ^ Joseph, ^ Elizabeth, ^ Deborah, 
and ^ Sarah. 

For the genealogy of this family, see the Lyon Memorial, 
New York Families, published in 1907. Editor, Robert B. 
Miller of Brooklyn, N. Y., Associate Editor, A. B. Lyons, 
M.D., of Detroit, Michigan. 

MARSHALL FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance of 

the data collected by Jessie A. Marshall, late of 

Port Chester, N. Y. 

'Thomas Marshall, a Quaker, bom in England, about 
1610, came to Boston, Mass., about 1637; made freeman at 
New Haven, March 7, 1647; removed to Greenwich, Conn., 
before 1658, where he died in 1671 ; m. , and had: 

1. ^ Thomas, b. at Boston, Jan. 2, 1644, probably d. young. 

2. ^ John, b. about 1646, granted, April 15, 1669, a piece of 



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X 



meadow land at Cos Cob Neck, lying between Mr. 
Jones's land and Cellar Neck, d. in 1712, m. ist, Sarah 
Webb, m. 2d, a dau. of John Rockwell of Stamford, 
Conn., m. 3d, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Lyon, and 
had by his ist wife: 

3 John, b. about 1674, d. 1727, m. Abigail, dau. of 
John and Abigail Banks, d. in 1758, and had: 

1. "• John, b. about 1700, d. , m. Jan. 10, 1731, 
Sarah, dau. of Joseph Marshall, and had: 

1. 5 John, b. April 18, 1732, m. , and 
had: 

1. ^Justus, bapt. April 9, 1762. 

2. ^ Hannah, bapt. April 9, 1762. 

3. ^ Orpha, bapt. Sept. 11, 1763. 

4. * Jerome M., bapt. March 9, 1766. 

5. ^ John, bapt. July 10, 1768. 

6. ^ Thomas, bapt. July 10, 1768. 

7. ^ Sarah, bapt. Aug. 2, 1770. 

2. 5 Hannah, b. Nov, 18, 1733, d. Feb. 28, 
1744. 

3. s Jus^^s, b. Sept. 4, 1735, removed to 
Dutchess County, N. Y. 

4. s Sarah, b. Sept. 12, 1737. 

5. 5 Deborah, b. Oct. 9, 1739. 

6. 5 Letitia, b. Jan. 27, 1742. 

7. s Henry, b. April 30, 1744. 

8. 5 Joseph, b. July 2, 1746. 

9. ^ Mary, b. April 20, 1750. 

2. ''Joseph, b. about 1702. 

3. ''Hannah, b. Dec. 25, 1704, d. before I76i,m. 
Anthony Demill. 

4. '' David, b. Jan. 31, 1706, d. in 1759, m. Anne 
Haight, and had: 

1. s James, b. Nov. i, 1734. 

2. s Abigail, b. Oct. 12, 1736, d. before 1761. 

3. 5 Anne, b. Oct. 12, 1738, m. Feb. 18, 1761, 
John Sutton, of Bedford, N. Y. 

4. s jgj-usha, b. Oct. 28, 1740, m. George 
Cock, of North Castle, N. Y. 

5. 5 David, b. Sept. i, 1742, m. Dec. 15, 

1762, Rebecca , and had: 

I. ^Oliver, b. Jan. 3, 1764, d. in 1766. 



^ Daniel, b. Feb. 19, 1766. 
^ Thomas, b. April 10, 1768. 
^Judith, b. Oct. 20, 1770. 
^ Aaron, b. April 16, 1774. 
^ Moses, b. Oct. 6, 1776. 
^Rebecca, b. Oct. 16, 1778. 
^ Ann, b. Feb. 26, 1781. 



Marshall Family 609 

9. ^ David, b. May 16, 1783. 

6. 5 Zaccheus, b. Dec. 5, 1745. 

7. s Henry, b. March 8, 1748. 

8. ^ Francis, b. Feb. 24, 1752, m. Oct. 21, 
1773, Deborah Dean. 

9. 5 William, b. May 14, 1754. 

5. " Elizabeth, b. Oct. 6, 1708, m. Aug. 26, 1736, 
Thomas Hill. 

6. ^Elihu, b. June 4, 1710, d. in 1747, m. Ruth 
Brown, and had : 

1. s Judith, b. about 1736. 

2. s EHhu, b. in 1745, d. young. 

7. 4 Mary, b. Jan. 11, 1712, m. Nov. 8, 1734, 
Daniel Ogden. 

8. "Jehu, b. Sept. 24, 1714, d. unm. 

9. 4 Zaccheus, b. April 11, 1716, d. in 1739, unm. 

10. "ichabod, b. Feb. 23, 1718, d. in 1744, unm. 

11. " Micajah, b. June 17, 1723- 

12. 4 Abigail, b. about 1725, m. Josiah Mead. 

2. 3 Joseph, b. about 1676, d. in 1748, m. Mary , 

d. in 1750, and had: 

1 . 4 Sarah, b. July 19, 1703, m. John Marshall, Jr. 

2. 4 Joseph, b. Jtdy 30, 1705, m. July 24, 1731, 
Hannah Ferris. 

3. 4 Thaddeus, b. Nov. 2, 1707, d. before 1764, m. 
Mary, dau. of Joseph and Hannah (Lyon) 
Banks, and had: 

1. 5 Thaddeus, b. about 1732. 

2. s Daughter, who m. Demill. 

3. 5 Daughter, who m. Titus Knapp. 

4. 5 Stephen, b. about 1735, d. in 1797, m. 
Hannah, dau. of Gershom Lockwood, and 

had: 

I. 6 Gilbert, b. about 1758, Revolution- 
ary soldier, d. in 1795, m. Sarah 
Brown, and had: 

1. ■? Sarah, b. , m. Henry Mar- 
shall. 

2. ■^ Gilbert, b. , d. in 1866, m. 
Sarah, dau. of Titus Knapp, and 
had: ^William, ^ Sarah, and 
* Hannah. 

3. 7 William, b. Nov. 30, 1780, 
removed to Somers, N. Y., d. 
Nov. 29, 1862, m. Ray- 
mond, and had: ^ Lydia, ^ Caro- 
line, ^ James, and ^ William. 

4. 7 Stephen, b. April 22, 1783, d. 
June 3, 1855, m. Nov. i, 1807, 



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6io Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Pamelia, dau. of Captain Mat- 
thew and Mary (Bush) Mead, b. 
Jan. 21, 1784, d. Feb. 8, 1857, 
and had : 

1. ^Stephen, b. July 3, 1808. 

2. ^ Gilbert, b. Nov. 3, 1809, d. 
at Port Chester, N. Y., 
March 8, 1892, m. ist, Oct. 
22, 1834, Deborah, dau. of 
Bouton and Thankful (Bene- 
dict) Hoyt of New Canaan, 
Conn., b. July 13, 1813, d. 
Jan. II, 1876, m. 2d, Loretta 
Merritt, b. Jan. 15, 1813, 
and had by ist wife: 'Ann 
M., » Stephen A., ''Joseph 
H., 9 Leslie G., » Abraham 
F., 9 Caroline M., and 
9 Sarah E. 

3. ^ Sarah Ann, b. March 27, 
1812, d. May 2, 1836, m. 
Ferdon. 

4. ^ Polly B., b. Sept. 23, 1813, 
d. July 26, 1863, m. ist, 
March 2 1 , 1 83 1 , Hiram Ray, 
m. 2d, Matthew Mead, b. 
March 3, 18 14. 

2. ^ Andrew, b. about 1760, m. Elizabeth 
Seymour, b. May 9, 1755, and had: 
7 Andrew, ''Elizabeth, ^Sabrina, 

7 Alethea, ^ Sarah, ^ Thaddeus. 

3. ^Abraham, bapt. Jan. 10, 1768. 

4. ^Mary, bapt. Jan. 10, 1768. 

4. ''Deborah, b. Feb. 4, 1708, d. before 

1750. 

5. "Amy, b. Nov. 28, 1718, m. Captain 

Israel Knapp. 

6. "Mary, b. Nov. 8, 1720, m. Samuel 

Ketcham. 

7. "Susannah, b. July 7, 1727. 

3. 3 Daniel, b. about 1679, d. in 1727, m. Jime 23, 
1703, Abigail, dau. of Walter Butler, and had: 
I. "Daniel, b. Jan. 28. 1704, d. , m. Eliza- 

beth, dau. of Joseph Mead, and had (perhaps 
others) : 

I. 5 Daniel, b. about 1730, m. Mary , 

and had : 

1. "^Joseph T., bapt. in 1769. 

2. * Hannah, bapt. in 1769. 



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3. ^ Daniel, bapt. in 1769. 

4. ^ Silas, bapt. in 1769. 

5. ^ Peter, bapt. in 1769. 

2. 'I Nathaniel, b. May 27, 1705, d. before 1764, 
m. Sarah , and had: 

I. s Nathaniel, and perhaps others. 

3. " Thomas, b. Aug. 6, 1706, m. ist, Sarah, dau. 
of Nathan Whepley, m. 2d, Deborah, dau. of 
Samuel Bates, and had by ist wife: 

1. 5 John, b. 
By 2d wife : 

2. s Isaac, b. , d. in 1796, m. Amy Bare- 
more, d. in 1824, and had: 

1 . ^ Henry, removed to Genoa, N. Y, 

2. ^ Hannah, b. 

3. ^ Rachel, b. Feb. 25, 1773, m. Nathan- 
iel Palmer. 

, m. Mosher. 



9 
10 



^ Deborah, b. 

^ Amy, b. 

b. March 29, 

6 Sally, b. 

^ Orpha, b. 

^ Lavinia, b. 

Peck. 

^ Fanny, b. 

^ EHzabeth, b. 
sEzra, b. , d. in 1814, m 

had: 

1 . ^ Ephraim, b 

2. ^ Ezra, b. 
s Thomas, b. 
had: 

1. ^Samuel, bapt. June 9, 1771. 

2. ^ Seymour, bapt. June 9, 1771 
^Eli, bapt. June 9, 1771. 
^ Edmund, b. 
^ Mary, b. 
^ Nancy, b. 
^ EHzabeth, b. 



, m. Thaddeus Lyon, 

1785- 
, d. unm. 
, d. unm, 
in 1786, m. Nehemiah 

, m. Zebulon Mead. 

— , and 



and perhaps others, 
m. Charity , and 



4 Samuel, b. March 6, 1715, d. before 1772, m. 
Hannah Mead, and had: 

1. s Edward, under twenty-one in 1772. 

2. sjosiah, under twenty-one in 1772, and 
perhaps others. 

^Freelove, b. March 23, 1719, m. John John- 
son. 

"Abigail, b. Feb., 1721, m. Thomas Jones of 
Orange County, N. Y. 
4 Nehemiah, b. Aug. 5, 1723, m. April 4, 



6i2 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1742, Patience, dau. of Jonathan Webb, and 
had: 

1. 5 Bethia, b. July 11, 1743, d. Oct. 11, 1746. 

2. ^ Nehemiah, b. Aug. 20, 1744, d. Sept. 19, 
1744. 

3. s Nehemiah, b. Jan. 2, 1746. 

4. s Henry, b. Aug. 17, 1748. 

5. 5 Bethia, b. Dec. 23, 1750. 

6. s Mary, b. Oct. 13, 1752. 

7. 5 Abigail, b. Nov. 29, 1754. 

8. s Elizabeth, b. March i, 1758. 

9. 5 Sarah, b. March 26, 1760. 

10. 5 Thya, b. July 12, 1762. 

11. 5 Jessie, b. March 15, 1765. 

8. '' Hannah, b. Aug. 6, 1725, m. Benjamin 
Prindle. 

9. "• Rebecca, b. April 27, 1727. 

4. 3 Martha, b. about 1680, m. Thomas Merritt. 

5. 3 Samuel, b. about 1683, d. in 17 13, m. Mary , 

after his d. she m. Samuel Finch, and had: 

I. Son, b. Sept. 23, 1713, d. soon. 
By 2d wife: 

6. 3 Hannah, under age in 1712. 

3. ^ Daughter, b. about 1648. 

4. ^ Daughter, b. about 1650. 

Sylvanus Marshall, b. May 4, 1746 an officer in the 
Revolutionary War, should come in here somewhere, d. at 
Mamaroneck, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1833, m., and had: 

1. Phebe, b. , d. unm. 

2. Sally, b. , m. Alton Ingersoll. 

3. Sylvanus, b. , m. March 29, 1801, Mary, dau. of 

Dr. Isaac Smith, and had: Arza, William A., Joseph 
D., Delia A., Hickford, Hannah, Eliza, Augusta, and 
Elvin F. 

4. Walter, b. , m. Martha Ennis, b. Oct. 27, 1788, 
and had: Alexander, John E., Sarah, and George. 

MEAD FAMILY. 

William Mead, bom in England, about 1600, probably 
sailed from Lydd, County Kent, England, in the ship Eliza- 
beth, Captain Stagg, April, 1635, for the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony; first settled in Wethersfield, Conn.; removed to 
Stamford, Conn., in 1641, where he died about 1663. His 
wife died at Stamford, Sept. 19, 1657. Their children were: 
Joseph, Martha, and John. Joseph and John settled in the 
Town of Greenwich. 




SPENCER P. MEAD, LL.B. 
AUTHOR OF THE "HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE MEAD FAMILY." 



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613 



For the genealogy of this family, see the History and 
Genealogy of the Mead Family, by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., of 
the New York Bar, published in 1901, to which a Genealogi- 
cal Index was published in 1907. 



MERRITT FAMILY. 

^JOHN Merritt, probably from Wethersfield, Conn., 
settled in Rye, New York, in 1678, died in 17:^4, married and 
had: 

I. ^ John, b. , d. in 1753, m. Mary Brundage, d. in 

1757, wills of both in New York County, N. Y., and 
had: 

1. ^Daniel.b. , d. July 16, 1799, m. ,andhad: 
" Daniel, " Caleb, '^ Amy, '» James, " Mary, " Han- 
nah, and a dau. who m. Anderson, 

2. 3 Caleb, b. in 1710, d. at North Castle, N. Y., in 
1780, m. Elizabeth Carpenter, and had: 

1. 4 Caleb, b. Feb. 4, 1739, d. in 1824, m. Deborah, 
dau. of Gilbert Lyon. (See Lyon Genealogy, 
N. Y. Family, page 78.) 

2. "* Daniel, b. 

3. ^ Reuben, b. 

4. "* Hannah, b. 

5. '' Elizabeth, b. 
r--~6. 4 Mary, b. 

7. 4 Esther, b. 

8. ^ Sylvanus, b. 

9. "t Rachel, b. 

3. ^ Mary, b. about 1712, m. Sept. 19, 1731. Reuben 
Green. 

4. ^ Phebe, b. about 17 14, d. unm. 

5. 3 Ruth, b. about 1717, m. Solomon Purdy, and had: 
4 Nehemiah, " David, and ^ Ann. 

6. ^ Sarah, b. Dec. 21, 1720, m. James Pine. 

7. 3 Nathan, b. July 20, 1722, d. Jan. 28, 1813, m. 
Dinah Tucker, b. in 1723, d. May 24, 1810, and 
had: 
I. 4 James, b. in 1746, d. Jan. 4, 1801, unm. 

4 Nathan, b. , m. Susannah, dau. of 
Joseph Willson of King Street, b. Jan. 8, 1760, 
d. March 22, 1838. 
4 Amy, b. . m. Haines. 



2. 



3- 
4- 



4 Joseph, b. in 1759, d. Dec. 15, 1809, m. Wilma, 
dau. of Henry Dusenbury, and had: ^ Susan, 
s John J., s Henry, ^ James D., and ^ Eliza- 
beth. 
4 Mary, b. 



6i4 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

6. ^ John, b. 

7. '•jotham, of Greenwich, b. May 14, 1768, d. 
Feb. 14, 1814, m. ist, Susan Rathbun, m. 2d, 
Mary W., dan. of John and Elizabeth (Willis) 
Brown, and had: 

1. s Elizabeth, b. 

2. 5 Harriet, b. 

3. ^ Caroline, b. 

4. 5 Jotham, b. 

8. 3 Hannah, b. April 11, 1725, m. Samuel Pine. 

9. 3 John, b. June 27, 1727, d. Sept. 27, 1798, m. Mary 



10. 3 Amy, b. April 24, 1730, d. Dec. 17, 1805, m. 
Samuel Brown, b. July 16, 1722, d. Aug. 5, 
1811. 

11. 3 Thomas, b. about 1732, d. at North Castle, N. Y., 
in 1785, m. Mary , and had: 

1. " Thomas, b. 

2. '' James, b. 

3. '' Joseph, b. 

4. " Anderson, b. 

5. '• Jeremiah, b. 

6. 4 Mary, b. 

7. "* Prudence, b. 

2. ^ Jonathan, b. 

3. ^Andrew, b. May 17, 1689, d. Aug. 18, 1781, m. ist 

Rachel , d. Oct. 8, 1742, m. 2d, Mary , and 

had: 

1. 3 Andrew, b. Feb. 22, 1722. 

2. 3 Gilbert, b. in 1724, d. in 1785, m. Hannah Lyon. 
(See Lyon Genealogy, N. Y. Family, page 64.) 

3. 3 Nathaniel, b. about 1733. 

4. 3 Robert, b. Jan. 6, 1735, d. Feb. 12, 1817, m. 
Phebe . 

5. 3 Nehemiah, b. in 1738, d. May 10, 1817, m. Ruth 
, and had : 

I. "^ Daniel, b. March 6, 1764, d. June 7, 1836, m. 
in 1790, Rebecca, dau. of Abraham Bush, b. 
Jan. 20, 1766, d. Aug. 21, 1855 (see Lyon 
Genealogy, N. Y. Family, footnote page 68), 
and perhaps others. 

6. 3 Rachel, b. Sept. 9, 1741, m. Gilbert Miller. 

'Thomas Merritt owned land in Wethersfield, Conn., 
in 1662, removed to Rye, N. Y., where he died in 1721, m. 
1st, , m. 2d, before 1688, Abigail, dau. of Robert and 
Joan Francis of Wethersfield, Conn., b. Feb. 14, 1660, 
m. 3d, in 1696, Mary, dau. of Jeffrey Ferris, and widow of 



Merritt Family 615 

Jonathan Lockwood, d. in 1708, no children by 3d wife. 
Children : 

1. ^ Thomas, b. about 1670, d. in 1719, m. Martha, dau. of 
John Marshall, and had: 

1. 3 Thomas, b. about 1700, m. Elizabeth , and 

had: 

1 . 4 Thomas, b. April 24, 1736, and perhaps others. 

2. 3 Mercy, b. about 1702. 

3. 3 Edward, b. about 1705, d. in 1791, m. and had: 

1. 4 Edward, b. June 4, 1753, d. Nov. 14, 1803. 

2. 4 John, b. 

3. "* Hannah, b. 

4. ^ John, not mentioned in will. 

5. ^Benoni, not mentioned in will. 

2. ^Joseph, b. about 1672, d. in 1754, m. Jane , and 

had (will in New York County) : 

I. 3 Joseph, b. about 1697, m. Mary, dau. of Ebenezer 
Theal and had: 
I. '•Daniel, b. about 1720, m. , and had: 

1. s Daniel, b. Aug. 17, 1742, d. in 1786, m. 
April 20, 1763, Rebecca Sherwood, who 
after his death, m. Colonel Thomas 
Hobby. Children: 

1. ^ Ebenezer, b. 

2. ^Elizabeth, b. in 1771, m. Joseph 
Green. 

2. s Ebenezer, b. March 28, 1746, he was 
captain of a sloop on the Hudson River 
for many years, and in 1790 was captain 
of the sloop George Washington, d. in 1819, 
m. Aug. 17, 1783, Cynthia Willis, b. July 
29, 1765, and had: 

I. <* Daniel, b. Oct. 19, 1784, part owner 
of the sloop Theodore, d. April 30, 
1849, m. May 9, 1807, Sarah, dau. of 
James and Susannah (Marvin) Lyon, 
b. March 23, 1786, and had: 

1. 7 George W,, b. Feb. 12, 1808, d. 
in 1836, unm. 

2. 7 Willis J., b. Feb. 16, 1810, 
owner of the sloop Mary Willis, 
d. Aug. II, 1889, m. Mary H., 
dau. of Ephraim and Azuba 
(Mead) Mead, b. Feb. 2, 1810, 
d. April 30, 1868. (See Mead 
Genealogy, page 258.) 

3. 7 Mary W., b. 

4. 7 Lewis A., b. April 22, 1812. 



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lO. 



II. 



12. 



7 Susan A. E., b. Feb. 6, 1814, d. 
Aug. 26, 1884, m. Edward Mead, 
b. June 22, 1809, d. Oct. 28, 
1885. (See Mead Genealogy 
page 256.) 

'' Daniel B., b. Jan. 8, 1816, m. 
Jane A. Lyon. (See Lyon Gene- 
alogy, No. 1067.) 
7 Cynthia W., b. Jan. 12, 1818, d. 
Feb. 12, 1827. 

7 Joseph G., b. Nov. 7, 1819, d. 
May I, 1885, m. Mary Jane, 
dau. of John Pease, b. in 1828, d. 
Nov. 16, 1863. 

7 Caleb W., b. Jan. 18, 1822, d. 
Feb. 23, 1899, m. Jan. 27, 1845, 
Phebe Ann Husted, b. Jan. 23, 
1822, d. May 5, 1901. 
'' Theodore, b. Nov. 13, 1823, d. 
Feb. 12, 1892, unm. 
' Sarah L., b. April 12, 1826, m. 
Elnathan Husted, b. Sept. 2^, 
1827, d. March 4, 1864, on 
David's Island, while a member 
of Co. I, 17th Regiment, C. V. 
7 Cynthia W., b. Nov. 26, 1829, 

Rev. 



d. March 24, 1891, m. 

Rufus Putney. 
6 Willis, b. 
^ Henry, b. 
6 John, b. 
^Wesley, b. 
^ Charles, b. 
^Cynthia, b. 

^ Phebe, b. , m. Gideon Peck. 

^ Ann E., b. , m. James Wood. 

2. ''Joseph, b. Jan. 14, 1731, d. May 19, 1782, m. 

Ruth , and had: ^ Ann, ^ Nehemiah, 

s Daniel, ^ Jotham, ^ John, and ^ Lot. 

3. " Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1749, d. June 29, 1819, and 
perhaps others. 

2. 3 Thomas, b. , probably settled in North East, 
Dutchess County, N. Y. 

3. •* Nehemiah, b. in 1715, d. in 1794, m. ist, Dinah, 
dau. of Ichabod and Sarah (Coles) Hopkins, m. 2d, 
before 1761, Mary, dau. of Robert Dingy, removed 
to Dutchess County, N. Y., and had: 

1. ■» Daniel, b. July 23, 1738, d. May 25, 1805. 

2. '' Nehemiah, b. Jan. 14, 1740, d. Sept., 1793. 



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617 



3. ''Anna, b. Sept. 19, 1742, d. Nov., 1760. 

4. '' Ichabod, b. Sept. 10, 1744. 

4. 3 Elizabeth, b. , m. Joseph Brundage, and had: 
'' Joseph, and perhaps others. 

5. 3 Jane, b. , m. Samuel Williams. 

3. ^ Ephraim, b. , no record of any children. 

4. ^ Samuel, b. , m. Elizabeth, dau. of Humphrey and 
Sarah Underhill, and had: 



3. 



m. Tamar 



and had: 



m. 



3 William, b. 

1. '•Joseph, b. in 1734, d. Sept. 3, 1793. 

2. ^ Elisha, b. in 1740, and perhaps others. 
^George, b. April 23, 1702, d. Feb. 2, 1759, 
Glorianna, dau. of Samuel and Glorianna (Strang) 
Purdy. b. March 31, 1715, d. Sept. 13, 1765, 
removed to Ulster County, N. Y., and had: 
I 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 



29. 1793- 



-» Elizabeth, b. Feb. 13, 1733. 

4 Caleb, b. Feb. 28, 1735, d. Nov. 

'I Humphrey, b. May 17, 1737. 

•* Samuel, b. April 22, 1739, d. Dec. 6, 181 1. 

'* George, b. May 26, 1741, d. July 10, 1822. 

'' Gabriel, b. May i, 1744, d. Jan. 5, 1776. 

"Glorianna, b. Oct. 11, 1745. 

'•Jane, b. Sept. 25, 1747, d. March 2, 1807. 
9. ''Josiah, b. about 1749. 
10. 4 David, or Daniel, b. Nov. 15, 1752, d. March 

12, 1817. 

3 David, b. , d. in 1751, m. Jane and had 

only one child : '' Mary, b. 



MILLS FAMILY. 

Richard Mills, born in England about 1595; came to 
America about 1635; settled in Wethersfield, Conn., before 
1641 ; sold out about 1643, and removed to New Haven, 
Conn., where he died about 1668. He married ist, ; 
2d, widow of William Constable. The children by his first 
wife were Richard, born about 1630; Samuel, bom about 
1632; John, born about 1636; and several daughters. John 
remained in New Haven; Richard and Samuel were in 
Stamford, Conn., in 1660, and witnessed to will of George 
Stuckey. Richard remained in Stamford, and Samuel re- 
moved to Long Island, where he died in 1685. 

Samuel Mills, the first of the Mills family to settle 
in the Town of Greenwich, bought land there on the 
eighteenth day of January, 1712. There is no entry on 
the town records of his marriage, or the birth of any 
children. ,._j 



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PALMER FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance of 
Frederick I. Allen, Ph.B., of the New York Bar. 

There were several persons by the name of Palmer, who 
were early settlers in America, as follows : 

William Palmer, who settled in Plymouth, Mass., in 
1621. 

John Palmer, who was made freeman of Mass., in 1641. 

Henry Palmer, who was made freeman of Mass., in 1642. 

William Palmer of Watertown, Mass., and Wethersfield, 
Conn. 

Henry Palmer of Watertown, Mass., and Wethersfield, 
Conn. 

William Palmer, who settled in Newtown, L. I., in 1656, 
who is probably the one mentioned in Riker's History 
of Harlem, N. Y. 

The Palmer family in the Town of Greenwich, is de- 
scended from the ' Henry Palmer, second above referred to, 
who was possibly bom in County Somerset, England, about 
1 600; settled in Watertown, Mass., before 1636; removed to 
Wethersfield, Conn., about 1637; removed to Greenwich, 
Conn., about 1650, where he died about 1660; married 1st, 

at Wethersfield, Katharine , m. 2d, Judith , after 

his death she married, Jeffrey Ferris, her last husband was 
John Bowers, and had by his ist wife: 

1. ^ Deborah, b. Feb. 5, 1643. 

2. ^ Hannah, b. Aug. 14, 1645, m. Isaac Stiles. 

3. ^ Ephraim, b. April 5, 1648, granted, May 23, 1673, ten 
acres of land in the Town of Greenwich; December, 
1673, granted an interest in the outlands lying between 
the Mianus and Byram Rivers; d. Aug. 19, 1684, m. in 

1668, Sarah , who survived him, and afterwards 

m. Gregory, and had: 

1. ^Joanna, b. in 1669. 

2. 3 Sarah, b. in 1671. 

3. 3 Judith, b. in 1673, m. Samuel Raymond. 

4. ^ Susannah, b. in 1675. 

5. 3 Ephraim, b. Oct. 24, 1677, d. , m. a step-dau. 
of John Bowers, and had: 

I. ''Ephraim, b. Oct. 24, 1697, removed to 

Dutchess County, N. Y., m. Rachel and 

had: ^ Sylvanus, ^ Uriah, ^ Ephraim, ^Jo- 
hanna, s Dorkis, ^ Rebecca, ^ Abigail, and 
^ Rachel. 



Palmer Family 



1700, m. 



2. ^ Rebecca, b. about 
Samuel Reynolds. 

3. ''John, b. about 1703, d. in 1778, m 
1730, Hannah Smith, and had: 



619 

Jan. 26, 1727, 
Feb. 16, 



s Hannah, b. Oct. 10, 1731. 

s John, b. Jan. 19, 1733, d. April, 1793, m. 

Hannah , b. in 1734, d. Jan. 8, 1803, 

and had : 

1. * Smith, b. in 1756, Revolutionary- 
soldier. 

2. ^ Zabud, killed in the Revolutionary 
War. 

3. ^ Rheuma, b. about 1760. 

4. ^ Naomi, b. , m. Knapp. 

5. ^Asahel, b. in 1768, d. May 5, 
1840. 

6. ^ Samantha, b. , m. Bailey. 

7. ^ Abel, b. June i, 1773, d. in i860, mv 
Sarah, dau. of John Davis of Green- 
wich, b. in 1779, d. Jan. 12, 1872, 
and had : 

7 Hannah, b. , m. Walter 

Jones. 

7 John R., b. , d. in 1869, 

unm. 

7 Caroline, b. , m. Horace 

Dann. 

4. ^ Julia, b. , m. John Liney. 

5. 7 Lloyd, b. 
7 Clara, b. , m. George 
Hopperton. 

' Jane, b. , m. Darius Clark. 

7 Catharine, b. , m. Dean 

Worden. 

7 Susan, b. , m. Horace 

Dann. 

7 Daughter, who m. John Weed. 
7 Rex L., b. Feb. 17, 1820. d. 
April 22, 1900, m. Oct. 16, 1855, 
Mary M., dau. of William and 
Eliza (Pierce) Thomas of Kent 
County, Md., b. Sept. 2, 1826, 
d. Oct. 5, 1905, and had: ^ Frank 
T. and » Ralph L. 

12. ' Child, who d. in infancy. 

8. ^ Pruella, b. 

s Sarah, b. Jan. 28, 1734. 
5 Nathan, b. Nov. 29, 1736. 
s Jemima, b. Oct. 22, 1738. 



10 
II 



620 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

6. 5 Daniel, b. Nov. g, 1740, d. in 1787, m. 
Barbara , and had: 

I. ^ Benjamin, b. 
6 Sybil, b. 
^ Julia A., b. 
^ Mary, b. 
^ Lorina, b. 
^ Rheuma, b. 

7. s Rebecca, b. Oct. 31, 1742. 

6. 3 Mary, b. in 1679. 

7. ^ John, b. in 1681, d. , m. ist, Sarah Close, d. 
Sept. I, 1748, age sixty-four years, m. 2d, Mary 
; , and had by ist wife: 

1. "Messenger, b. in 1718, d. Jan. 28, 1792, m. 
1st, Hannah, dau. of Joseph Ferris, d. Feb. 18, 
1746, m. 2d, Sybil, dau. of John Wood of 
Brookhaven, L. I., d. April 13, 1754, m. 3d, 
Oct. 27, 1755, Mrs. Esther Palmer of Throg's 
Neck, N. Y., and had by ist wife: 

1. 5 Beth, b. in 1741, d. Jan. 26, 1831, m. 
Deborah, dau. of Robert Peck, b. May 
14, 1746, d. July 18, 1837, and had: 
I. ^Hannah, b. in 1771, d. May 12, 

181 1, m. Isaac Quintard. 

2. ^ Esther, b. , m. Peter Sackett. 
By 2d wife : 

3. s Jeremiah, b. in 1751, d. Sept. 25, 1825, 
m. Mary , b. in 1757, d. June 3, 1832. 

4. 5 John Wood, b. in 1753, d. Oct. 4, 1795, 
m. June 6, 1776, Hannah, dau. of James 
Ferris, b. in 1759, d. Aug. 13, 1799, and 
had: 

1. ^ Messenger, b. April 11, 1777, d. May 
20, 1832. 

2. ^ Oliver, b. May 3, 1779. 

3. ^ Sybil Wood, b. April 18, 1781. 

4. ^Asa, b. March 7, 1785. 

5. ^ Ralph, b. Sept. 12, 1787. 

6. ^ Ferris, b. Aug. 25, 1789. 

7. ^ Hettie, b. Nov. 19, 1792. 

2. " Nehemiah, b. about 1720, m. Jan. 28, 1739, 
Abigail Piatt of Long Island, and had: 

1. ^ Mary, b. Sept. 24, 1741. 

2. 5 Piatt, b. Feb. 14, 1745. 

3. 5 Abigail, b. April 28, 1747. 

4. s Sarah, b. June 24, 1748. 

5. 5 Nehemiah, b. July 24, 1751. 

6. s Eiigabeth, b. Dec. 16, 1753. 

7. s Isaac, b. Nov. 25, 1760. 



Palmer Family 



621 



'•John, b. about 1722, m. Hannah 
had: 

1. ^ Nathan, b. May 22, 1741. 

2. ~ ' 

3- 



and 



Htill. 

Wardwell. 

d. in 1771, m. Amy 



5 Rebecca, b. March 18, 1743. 
s Stephen, b. Aug. 19, 1747, removed to 
Westchester County, N. Y., where he d. 
May 14, 1814. 

4. ^ Gideon, b. Oct. 29, 1749. 

5. s Nathaniel, b. June 22, 1755. 

4. '' Solomon, b. about 1724, d. in 1784, m. , 
and had : 

1. ^Gilbert, b. , removed to North 
Castle, N. Y. 

2. 5 Jonathan, b. 

3. 5 Solomon, b. 

4. 5 Joseph, b. 

5. 5 James, b. 

6. ^ Phebe, b. , m. 

7. ^ Sarah, b. 

8. 5 Mary, b. , m. - 

5. ''Justus, b. about 1727, 
, and had: 

1. s ji^stus, twenty-one in 1771. 

2. s Josiah, under twenty-one in 1771. 

3. 5 Ephraim, under twenty-one in 1771 . 

4. 5 Messenger, under twenty-one in 1771. 

5. 5 Solomon, under twenty-one in 1771. 

6. ^ Sylvanus, under twenty-one in 1771. 

4. ^ Dorcas, b. April 7, 1650. 
By 2d wife: 

5. ^ John, b. about 1652, granted, March 31, 1671, eight 
acres of land in the Town of Greenwich, to be laid out 
by the Mianus River, d. in 1673, without issue. 

6. ^ Judah, b. about 1654, m. John Reynolds. 

7. ^ James, b. about 1656, granted. May 24, 1673, six acres 
of land in the Town of Greenwich, d. Feb. 28, 171 7, m. 
Sarah, dau. of Thomas Denham, and had: 

1. 3 James, b. , d. before 1717, unm. 

2. 3 David, b. Jan. 15, 1693, d. in 1774, m. ist, Aug. 
22, 1718, Elizabeth, dau. of William Hubbard, b. 
Nov. 17, 1698, m. 2d, Sarah Knapp, widow of 
Peter Reynolds, and had by ist wife 



4 Anne, b. Feb. 8, 1719, m. Lockwood. 

'' David, b. Dec. 8, 1720, m. Lydia . 

" Isaac, b. April 7, 1722. 
'' Enos, b. May 28, 1724. 
4 Elizabeth, b. May 28, 1724, d. young. 

"* Elizabeth, b. June 16, 1726, m. Worden. 

''James, b. Dec. 17, 1728. 



622 \c Historic of Vo Town of Greenwich 

8. ^ Titus, h. April -V\ 1731. 

I). ■• Sarah, b. July ;^. i7o4. i^^- i^^. " Stockdcll, 

ni. 2d, Stewart. 

10. ' ncnhani. b. May u), 1737- "^- • ^^"^^ had: 

1. ■' Oouham, b. iu 1707, m. Mary Studwell, 
smiio say Mary Lock wood, b. Sept. 12, 
1707. d. Fob. 18, 1847, and had: 

1. ^ Maria, b. jau. 1, 1707. d. Nov. 2, 

1871). m. Robert Clark. 

2. * Loekwood, b. April 7. 1708. d. Auj;. 
25. i8u). 

3. "Solomon, b. Nov. 7, 1701). d. Sepi. 

i(>, i8u). 

4. *• Deborah A., b. Dec. o. 1801. 

5. * Frances, b. Sept. 10, 1803. 

(■>. " Lewis, b. April 7, 1805, d. Sept. 23, 
i8u). 

7. Tieorj;e A., b. Sept. 15. 1807, m. 1st, 
Sept. I), 1834, Harriet, dau. of 
Abraham Knapp. b. Sept. 23, 1809, 
d. June I, 1852. m. 2d. May IQ, 1S53, 
Phcbe, dau. of Abraham Knapp, b. 
April o. 1805. and had by 1st wife: 
^ Darius M. and ' Elizabeth E. 

2. 5 Elliott, b. about 17(18, d. in 1852, m. 
Jiuie 21), 1788, Elizabeth Lyon, removed 
to Genoa, N. Y. 

3. '■* Solomon, b. in 1773. m. Smith 

and had: " Hannah, '' Josepluis, and 
•" Lueinda. 

4. '■' David, b. in 1775. went to sea, and was 
never heard from. 

^S. -'' James, b. Feb. 28, 1780. d. Feb. 22, 1855, 
m. . and had: * Alton. * Charles, 

" Eliza. " Floyd, and ^ Sarah. 

o. ■'' Henry, b. about 1781, d. Auv;. 20, 1807, 

m. in 1800, Anna , b. in 1700. d. 

March 28, i8t-)i, and had: 

1. "Louisa, b. in 1807, m. Sands F. 
Palmer, son of William Palmer, who 
came from Delaware, and had: 
' Daxnd, " Solomon, ' Delia, and 
' Alexander. 

2. * David, b. in 1800. dro\\nied in Pike 
Slip. N. Y., ae:e about twenty-one, 
uani. 

3. *" Alice, b. in 1811, d. in 1839, unm. 

4. " Mary. b. in 1814, d. unm. 

3. " WiUiam. b. in 1810, m. , and 



Palmer Family 



623 



6. 



8. 



9- 
10. 



II. 



II, 



had: "Clinton. ^ Alice, "Fannie, 
^ Annie, and ' William. 
6 Denoni, b. in 1819, t^- I^ce. -^S. 19 10, 
m. Azader Marshall, and had : ^ Ahce 
and ^ Cordelia. 

6 Catharine, b. in 1819, ni. Lewis 
lohnson. 

^Y^larissa, b. in 1822, m. ist, Alex- 
ander Y. Sharp, m. 2d, Daniel 
Andrews. 

" Deha, b. in 1824, no children. 
"Lewis, b. in 1827, m. Margaret 
Palmer, and had: "^ Jo^^". ' Alice, 

' George, and ' Emma. 
<* Deborah A., b. in 1831, m. 

Duff, b. in 1824. 

6 Sarah M., b. in 1831, d. yomig. 

1739, d. before 1786, m. 



John 



12 

"Silas, b. Feb. 18, 
, and had : 

1. 5 Silas, b. 

2. s John, b. 

3. 5 Daniel, b. 

4. 5 Stephen, b. 

5. s Sarah, b. 

6. 5 Hannah, b. 

7. s Nathaniel, b 

8. 5 Rebecca, b. 
s Jemima, b 



, m. Stephen Marshall. 
, m. James Knapp. 

, ni. Jonathan Taylor. 



4- 
5. 



•> Samuel, b. 'ab(^'t^i095. -{"^^V^"'. ^Cnah' 

Poiin d in 1733. m. March 3^. ^'^^W !i 

'vidow ofNalhlS^ Cross, and dau. of Moses and 

Abigail (West colt) Knapp, and had: 

V 4 Hannah, b. Dee. 21, 1715, d. young. 

o "Samuel, b. in 1717- 

^Eli:Sb-^t^7.ni. April 18. 1717, Ben- 

fjrthan,'b. about 1699. d. in 1785. -De- 10. 
17^9, Anne, dau. of EHas Favor, b. at Cow s Neck, 
L.L, Dec. 20, 1702, and had: 
I 4james, b. May 12, 1721, d. March 22, 

Hannah, dau. of Isaac Rundle. 

"Anne, b. Feb. 22, 1727, m. Jan. 9, 1752, 

Simon IngersoU. 

4 Sarah, b. Oct. 9. I730, d. Jan. 3. I733- 

4 Robert, b. April 9, 1731, d. m 1758, m. 



3- 



6. 



624 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



Tameson , and had : ^ Nathaniel and 

5 Shubel. 
7. 4 Samuel, b. Jan. 20, 1733, m. Anne, dau. of 
Nathaniel Reynolds, and had: 

1. s Samuel, b. Nov. 3, 1757, d. in 1813, m. 
Amy, dau. of William and Amy (Mead) 
Rundle, b. in 1760, d. in 1804. 

2. 5 Amy, b. Oct. 12, 1759. 

3. 5 Stephen, b. Nov. 13, 1761. 

4. 5 Levi, b. Sept. 9, 1763, m. Jan. 4, 1787, 
Sarah, dau. of WilHam and Amy (Mead) 
Rundle, b. Jan. 2, 1766, and had: 



^ Sally, 
Lyon. 



b. Jan. 14, 1788, m. Amos 



^Levi, b. Oct. 18, 1789. 

^Elial, b. Aug. 27, 1793. 

^Abigail, b. Aug. 21, 1796, 

^Edward, b. Oct. 8. 1799. 

^Albert, b. Sept. 9, 1805. 
5 Anne, b. July 18, 1765. 
5 Ruth, b. Aug. 20, 1767. 
^Nathaniel, b. July 19, 1769, d. Jan. 
1826, m. Rachel Marshall, b. Feb. 
1773, d. May 18, 1861, and had: 

Jan. 13, 1797, 



II, 

m. 



21, 



^ Alathea, b. 
Ezekiel Close. 

^ Henry, b. June 5, 1799, d. Dec. 
1825, unm. 

* Amy, b. Dec. 16, 1801, m. Abraham 
Hubbard. 

^Stephen, b. Aug. 10, 1804, m. Har- 
riet Hyer, b. Oct. 10, 1815. 
^ Cornelia, b. Oct. 3, 1807, d. April 3, 
1842, unm. 
^ Josephus, b. Nov. 11, 18 10, d. unm. 

8. sE(jward, b. March 11, 1771. 

9. s Abraham, b. March 12, 1773. 
10. sAbijah, b. April ii, 1774. 

12. s Hannah, b. April 29, 1776. 

13. s Deborah, b. Aug. 3, 1778, m. Feb. 7, 
1800, Charles Lyon. 

14. s Damaris, b. Feb. 28, 1780. 

"• Deborah, b. Dec. 29, 1734, m. Ebenezer 

Lobdell. 

'' Winus, b. Sept. 7, 1736, d. in 1796, m. Phebe, 

dau. of Charles Green, and had: 

1. 5 Elizabeth, b. 

2. s Anne, b. 

3. ^ Jonathan, b. 



Palmer Family 625 

4. s Benjamin G., b. 

5. s -^inus, b. in 1762, d. Sept. 22, 1819, m. 
Rachel . 

6. s Mary, b. 

10. "^ Hannah, b, April 5, 1739. 

11. '* Gideon, b. April 19, 1740. 

12. '^ Nathaniel, b. April 3, 1743. 

13. '•Elizabeth, b. Dec. 18, 1744, m. Moe. 

6. 3 Nathaniel, b. about 1702, d. in 1755, m. Elizabeth 



8. ^ William, b. about 1658, granted, May 24, 1677, a 
parcel of land in the Town of Greenwich, removed to 
Westchester County, N. Y., m. , and had: 

1. 3 WILLIAM, b. Nov. 6, 1694, d. in 1786. 

2. 3 phebe, b. July 4, 1696. 

3. 3 Peter, b. July 23, 1703, removed to Dutchess 
County, N. Y., d. there in 1774, m. , and had: 
'' Peter, ^ Lydia, " John, ^ Aaron, '' Israel, "* Phebe, 
"^ Sarah, ^ Hannah, '* Anna, and '' Mary. 

4. •* Abraham, b. about 1705, m. in 1747, Abigail 
Buel, or Bull. This family removed to Dutchess 
County, N. Y. 

9. ^ Joseph, b. about 1660, bought land in the Town of 
Greenwich, Aug. 20, 1689, probably removed to Bed- 
ford, N. Y., m. , and had: 

I. 3 Joseph, b. about 1695, m. Feb. 29, 1720, Martha, 
dau. of Benjamin and EHzabeth (Butler) Knapp, b. 
Feb. 28, 1 701, and had: 

I. ^Joshua, b. March 22, 1721, and perhaps 
others. 
i WILLIAM PALMER, above referred to, a Quaker, b. Nov. 6, 
1694, ^ WilHam, ^ Henry, d. in 1786, in Charlotte Pre- 
cinct, Dutchess County, N. Y., m. Rachel , and 

had: 

1. 4 William, b. 

2. 4 Abraham, b. Feb. 21, 1732. 

3. '' Reuben, b. , d. in 1782, m. at Nine Partners, 
Jan. 25, 1753, Martha Reynolds, b. Jan. 3, 1734, 
and had: 

1. s Lornhanak, b. Oct. 18, 1753. 

2. 5 Jeremiah, b. May 6, 1755. 

3. s Reuben, b. June 18, 1757, m. Martha Mosher. 

4. s Martha, b. March 31, 1760. 

4. ^ Jacomiah, b. 

5. 4 Ezekiel, b. , d. before Dec. 15, 1770, m. Sarah 
, and had: ^ Jeremiah, s Sarah, and s Ruth. 

6 ■♦ Thomas, b. , of America, Dutchess County, 

N. Y. 
7. 4 Gilbert, b. in 1731, d. in 1806, at Danby, Rutland 



626 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 

County, Vt., m. ist, in 1760, Deuel, m. 2d, 

March 26, 1778, at Nine Partners, Mary Sherman 
of East Hoosick, Mass., d. in 181 5, and had nine 
children by each wife: 
By ist wife: 

1. ^ Ruth, b. in 1761, m. Isaac Potter, lived in 
Hamburg, N. Y. 

2. 5 John, b. in 1763, m. Catherine Fraily, lived 
in Danby, Vt., and had: 

1. ^ George, b. March 27, I788,was a Method- 
ist preacher, m. Lydia Wilbur. 

2. * Henry, b. Aug. 16, 1789, m. Lydia, 
dau. of Snow Randall, and removed to 
Michigan. 

3. ^ Jacob, b. Aug. 16, 1789. 

4. ^ Seneca, b. Aug. 19, 1791, m. Lydia, dau. 
of John Woods, and removed to Ohio. 

5. ^Wilson, b. Sept. 22, 1793. 

6. ^ Leonard, b. Sept. 22, 1795. 
^ Micah, b. Feb. 9, 1797, removed to 
Washington County, N. Y. 
^ Gilbert, b. March 21, 1799. 
^ Harvey, b. , m. Phila, dau. of 
Stephen Wheeler, and removed to Ohio. 

10. ^ Silas, b. 

11. * Sarah, b. 

12. ^ Matilda, b. , m. Seneca Hill, 
sjob, b. April 10, 1765, d. June 29, 1812, 
in Erie County, N. Y., m. March 4, 1788, 
Hannah Bromley of Danby, Vt., b. Sept. 28, 
1770, d. Nov. 17, 1822, and had: 
I. ^ Innis B., b. Nov. 11, 1789, at Easton, 

Washington County, N. Y., removed to 
Saratoga County, N. Y; to Danby, Vt., 
about 1800; in 1806, removed to a place 
near Buffalo, N. Y., served in the War of 
1 8 12, d. at Rochester, N. Y., July 2, 1843, 
m. Sept. 21, 181 1, Susan, dau. of Nehe- 
miah and Content Candee, of Galway, 
Saratoga County, N. Y., d. at Auburn, 
N. Y., May 12, 1883, and had: 

1. 7 William L., b. March 6, 1813, at 
Galway, Saratoga County, N. Y., m. 
Nov. 15, 1835, Mariette, dau. of John 
and Jemima (Toogood) Shew, of 
Cazenovia, N. Y,, and had: * Oscar 
D., ^ Mary A., and * John S. 

2. 7 Hannah A., b. Oct. 2, 1815, d. at 
Buffalo, N. Y., May 3, 1823. 



Palmer Family 627 

3. 7 Susan M., b. Dec. 20, 1816, d. Dec. 
12, 1826. 

4. '' Nehemiah C, b. Dec. 11, 1818, d. 
June 6, 1853, m. Feb., 1848, Catherine 

Simonton, after his d. she m. 

Durrie, she d. in New York City, 
Nov., 1907, and had two children 
who d. in infancy, and a dau.: 
^ Louise, whom. Dec. 7, 1875, WilHam 
J. Lyon of Jersey City, N. J. 

5. ■'Job B., b. Aug. 12, 1820, d. same 
day. 

6. 7 EHza C, b. April 3, 1822, d. March 
27, 1901, m. July 29, 1845, Abraham 
Miller Gardner of St. Louis, Mo. 

7. 7 innis N., b. March 30, 1824, at 
Buffalo, N. Y., d. Sept. 10, 1900, m. 
May 18, 1855, Catherine, dau. of 
Captain Llewellyn Jones, U. S. A., 
and Catherine (Richardson) Jones, d. 
Jan., 1896, and had: 

1. * Catherine, b. March, 1856, m. 
Dec. I, 1874, Henry Rowan 
Lemly, 3d U. S. Cavalry. 

2. * Susan, b. March, 1857, m. Eben 
Swift, I2th U. S. Cavalry. 

3. * Julia, b. April, 1859, at Auburn, 
N. Y., m. Lieut. Frank Lee 
Denny, U. S. M. C. 

4. ^ Innis N., b. June, 1861, d. July 
21, 1907, m. , and had issue. 

8. 7 Julia E., b. Dec. 23, 1825, at Alex- 
ander, Genesee County, N. Y., d. Oct. 
30, 1897, at Auburn, N. Y., m. Oct. 
16, 1845, Noah Parsons Clark, b. in 
1817, d. July 13, 1892, no issue. 

9. 7 Sarah M., b. March 29, 1829, at 
Schenectady, N. Y., d. March 14, 
1904, m. at St. Louis, Mo., May 29, 
1856, WilHam Allen of Auburn, N. Y., 
b. in 181 7, son of Ebenezer and Au- 
relia (Deuel) Allen, and was a de- 
scendant of George Allen, who d. at 
Sandwich, Mass., in 1648. He was a 
lawyer, and d. at Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 
7, 1881, and had: 

I. 8 William P., b. March 11, 1857, 
graduate of Yale College, Class 
of 1880, d. March 20, 1904, m. 



628 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Feb. 3, 1885, Mary Pumpelly 
Welles of New York City, and 
had : ' Welles Lispenard Allen. 

2. ^ George, b. Jan. 2, 1858, d. Sept. 
8, 1858. 

3. * Frederick I., Ph.B., b. Jan. 19, 
1859, m. June 3, 1884, Cornelia 
Margaret, dau. of William Henry 
and Janet (Watson) Seward of 
Auburn, N. Y., b. Sept. 11, 1862, 
and granddaughter of William 
Henry Seward, the statesman, 
and had: ' William S., » Ralph 
P., and 9 Lloyd S. Allen. 

4. * Lewis C, b. June 8, 1861, d. 
April 27, 1879. 

5. »Dwight D., b. Sept. 7, 1864, 
d. March 19, 1865. 

6. ^ Julia E., b. Sept. 9, 1870, d. 
May 15, 1888. 

10. ^George W., b. Sept. 13, 1832, at 
Washington, D. C, removed to Au- 
burn, N. Y., m. Sept. 15, 1859, 
Mary Jane, dau. of Andrew Van 
Middlesworth and Mollona (Sexton) 
Suydam of Auburn, N. Y., and had 
two children, both d. young. 

2. ^ Merit, b. April 30, 1792, m. , and 
had two sons, and two daughters, lived at 
Buffalo, N. Y., in 1843, later went West. 

3. ^ Alanson, b. May 28, 1794, of Buffalo, 
N. Y., m. 1st, , no children, m. 2d, 
Julia Mattison, and had: 

1. ''Charles W., b. about 1830, m. Mary 
Wiggin of Rochester, N. Y., no issue. 

2. 7 Betsey, b. , m. Allan P. Millar 
of Buffalo, N. Y., issue. 

3. ^ Julia, b. , m. Cleveland 

of Buffalo, N. Y., issue. 

4. "^ Catherine, b. , m. Lewis Joy 
of Buffalo, N. Y., issue. 

4. '' Miranda, b. March 4, 1797, m. 

Rudd, lived in Hamburg, N. Y., issue. 

5. ^William B., b. Aug. 14, 1799, d. Oct. 

22, 1 83 1, m. Newton of Rochester, 

N. Y., and had: ^ Horace A., ^Anne, 
and ' Esther. 

6. ^ Gilbert D., b. Oct. 22, 1802, m. 
issue, probably removed to Galesburg, 111. 



Palmer Family 629 

7. ^ Eliza, b. July 8, 1805, m. Alfred Clem- 
ens of Buffalo, N. Y. 

8. ^ Edwin C, b. April 9, 1808, d. about 
1850, unm. 

9. <* Alexander H., b. Sept. 8, 1810, m. 
Sophia , issue. 

4. s Levi, b. in 1767, lived at Saratoga, N. Y. 

5. sEdy, b. in 1769, m. Van Dauxer, re- 
moved to Northern N. Y. 

6. s Sarah, b. in 1771. 

7. s Gilbert, b. in 1774, lived in Utica, N. Y., and 
later in New York City. 

8. s Benjamin, b. in 1776, lived at Galway, 
Saratoga County, N. Y., m. , and had: 
6 Isaac, '^Alonzo, ^Leander, and <* Mathilda. 

9. 5 Daniel, b. in 1778, removed to Danby, Vt., 
d. at Wallingford, Vt., in 1862, m. ist, Hannah, 
dau. of Henry Herrick, m. 2d, Polly Hopkins, 
and had: ^ Jacob, ^ Isaac, <^ William, « Eliza, 
and ^ Charity. 

By 2d wife : 

10. 5 Hannah, b. in 1780. 

11. s William, b. in 1781, removed to CoUms, 
N. Y., m. ist, Mary Weller, m. 2d, Judah 
Potter. 

12. s Rachel, b. April 25, 1783. 

13 s Reuben, b. Sept. 16, 1784, removed to Ham- 
burg, Erie County, N. Y., m. Huldah Clark. 

14. s Judith, b. in 1785, m. Joshua Potter, went 

West. , o • , 

15. s Mary, b. Dec. 5, 1788, m. Barek Smith, re- 
moved to ColHns, Erie County, N. Y. 

16. s Elizabeth, b. Dec. 5, 1788. 

17. s Lydia, b. June 24, 1790. 

18. 5 

8. 4 Edward, b. , of Dutchess County, N. Y. 

9. 4 Rachel, b. 

10. * Esther, b. , m. Palmer, and had a son, 

5 James Palmer. 

11. ^Phebe, b. , m. Mead. 

12. 4 Amy, b. , m. before Dec. 21, 1758, Andrew 
White. 

13. 4 Mary, b. 

PECK FAMILY. 

William Peck, bom in the City of London, England, 
or in its vicinity, in 1601, came to America m 1637, and was 



630 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

one of the founders of the New Haven Colony ; died in New- 
Haven, Oct. 4, 1694; married, about 1622, EHzabeth , 

died Dec. 5, 1683, married, 2d, Sarah, widow of WilUam 
Holt. His children were: Jeremiah, John, Joseph, and 
Elizabeth. Jeremiah was born in the City of London, 
England, or in its vicinity, in 1623; came to America with 
his father, and settled in New Haven, married Johanna, 
daughter of Robert Kitchell of Guilford, Conn, He was a 
preacher, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church 
in the Town of Greenwich from 1678 to 1691. The Peck 
family in the Town of Greenwich is descended from this Rev. 
Jeremiah Peck. 

For the genealogy of this family, see the Genealogy of 
William Peck, one of the founders of the New Haven 
Colony, by Darius Peck, published in 1877. 

PURDY FAMILY. 

Compiled by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., with the assistance of 

Robert B. Miller, Editor of the Lyon Memorial, 

New York Families, published in 1907. 

If Bolton, in his History of Westchester County, N. Y., 
and Baird, in his History of Rye, N. Y., had taken the time to 
search the probate records before publishing their genealog- 
ical data on the Purdy family, it would not have been so 
inaccurate and unreliable. 

^Francis Purdy, sometimes spelled "Pardee," bom in 
England, about 1610; came to America about 1635; died at 
Fairfield, Conn., in 1658; married Mary, dau. of John 
Brundage of Wethersfield, Conn.,' who after his death mar- 
ried John Hait of Rye, N. Y., and had: ^ John, ^ Francis, 
' Joseph, ^ Samuel, and a daughter. 

1. ^ John, under age in 1661, removed to Rye, N. Y., in 
1670, where he d. in 1678, m. Elizabeth, dau. of John 
Hait, no issue. 

2. ^ Francis, b. in 1650, removed to Rye, N. Y., in 1670, m. 
Sarah, dau. of Peter Brown and had: 

I. ^Francis, b. , bought land in the Town of 

Greenwich in 171 8, m. , and probably had: 

1. '' Francis, b. 

2. "» Nathan, b. , m. Sarah , and removed 

to Salem, N. Y. He is probably the ancestor 
of the Pardee family in that vicinity. 



Purdy Family 



631 



2. 



3. 4 Joseph, b. , d. in 1762, m. Dec. 25, 1723, 
Elizabeth Ferris, and had: 

1. s Mary, b. Sept. 23, 1724, m. Samuel 
Ferris. 

2. s Joseph, b. Jan. 4, 1726, d. before 1762, 
unm. 

3. s Elizabeth, b. Aug. 26, 1728, d. May 10, 
1730. 

4. 5 Joshua, b. May 9, 1730. 

5. s Nathan, b. June 20, 1732. 

6. s Elizabeth, b. April 24, 1734, m. Richard 
Nichols. 

7. s John, b. May 28, 1737. 

8. s David, b. Dec. 2, 1738. 

9. 5 Nathaniel, b. Oct. 5, 1740. 

5 John, b. , bought land in the Town of Green- 
wich in 1722. 

3 Joseph, b. , d. in Rye, N. Y., m. , and 

had: 

1. 4 Roger, b. about 1715, d. in 1800, m. Elizabeth 
Fowler. 

2. 4 Moses, b. in 1722, d. Jan. 22, 1804, m. Marga- 
ret . 

3. 4 William, b. about 1725, d. in 1803. 
3 Daniel, b. , m. , and had: 

I. " Solomon, b. , at Rye, removed to Green- 

wich, d. in 1786, m. before 1748, Elizabeth 
Sherwood, also probably m. Ruth, dau. of 
John Merritt, and had: 
I. s Elizabeth, m. Robert Bloomer. 






2 

-=>3 
4 



5 Daughter, m. 



Merritt. 



s Annrm. William-Bs©wm. i 'i. t-i^^*-/^^ 
s Laurana, m. Oliver Sherwood, 
s Solomon, b. Nov. 30, 1762, 
"^Benjamin, b. , removed to Vermont, m. 
, and had: s Reuben, s Daniel, s Benja- 
min, 5 Truman, ^ Smith, and ^ Solomon. 
4 John, b. May 18, 1715, d. , m. Rebecca 
Brown, and had: 

1. 5 Amy B., b. Nov. 2, i739. m. Thomas 
Merritt. 

2. s Martha, b. Dec. 2, 1741, m. Benjamm 
Sutton. 

3. sjohn, b. Feb. 2, 1744, m. Susan Stud- 
well. 

4 s Nehemiah, b. Feb. 26, 1746, d. unm. 

5. s Rebecca, b. Jan. 16, 1748, m. Philip 
Miller. 

6. s William, b. March 3, 1751- 



632 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

7. 5 Elizabeth, b. March 21, 1754, m. Joshua 
Lyon. 

8. 5 Hannah, b. June 10, 1756, m. Sylvanus 
Simmons. 

9. s Daniel, of Greenwich, b. Jan. 15, 1759, 
d. April 17, 1817, m. Jan. 3, 1780, Abigail, 
dau. of Gilbert and Jane (Kniffen) Lyon, 
b. April 5, 1760, d. July 3, 1841, and had: 

1. ^ John, b. March 25, 1781, d. April 21, 
1866, m. three times, issue. 

2. ^ Nehemiah, b. Jan. 28, 1783, d. Aug. 
7, 1873, m. June 15, 1825, Amy 
Merritt Brown, issue. 

3. ^ Rebecca, b. July 19, 1787, d. Aug. 
II, 1 83 1, m. Sept. II, 1806, Samuel 
Townsend. 

4. ^Hannah, b. Dec. 2, 1790, m. March 
I, 1810, William Matthews, or Mat- 
thias. 

5. ^ Daniel, b. Sept. 13, 1799, d. Feb. 16, 
1878, m. Nov. 25, 1824, Rachel 
Brundage, issue. 

6. ^WilHam, b. March 3, 1804, d. Dec. 
17, 1859, m. Dorcas, dau. of Knapp 
and Elizabeth (Willson) Park, issue. 

10. s phebe, b. March 28, 1763, m. Nehemiah 
Sherwood 

11. 5 Rachel, b. Sept. 14, 1765, m. Nathaniel 
Anderson. 

4. '' Elizabeth, b. 

5. 3 Daughter, b. , m. Samuel Kniffen. 

6. 3 Thomas, b. , m. , and had: 

1. '•James, b. 

2. 4 Nehemiah, b. 

3. * Joseph, Judge, under age in 1661, removed to Rye, 
N. Y., in 1670, d. Oct. 29, 1709, m. Elizabeth, dau. of 
John and Judith (Budd) Ogden, d. in 1742, and 
had: 

I. 3 Joseph, b. , d. before 1734, m. , and had: 

V I. 4 Obadiah, b. in 1712. 

2. "^ Jonathan, b. , probably removed to 
Dutchess County. 

3. '•Abraham, b. Oct. 10, 1716, removed to Cort- 
landt Manor, N. Y., d. April 17, 1778, m. 
Phebe Strang, b. Feb. 7, 1732, d. Oct. 27, 
1759, and had: 

1. 5 phanne, b. July 23, 1753, m. Colonel 
John Drake. 

2. s Jerusha, b. Dec. 6, 1754. 



Purdy Family 633 

3. s Alvan, b. Jan. ii, 1757, d. July 16, 1830, 
m. Lydia Hunt, issue. 

4. s Abraham, b. April 9, 1759, d. Aug., 
1769. 

4. 4 Joseph, b. in 1723, d. June 15, 1777, m. 

Mercy Smith, b. in 1723. 
^ Daniel, b. , ran the ferry from Rye to Oyster 

Bay, L. I., d. in 1769, m. Anne, dau. of Hackaliah 
Brown, and had: 

1. '•Abigail, b. , m. David Haight. 

2. '•Elizabeth, b. in 1718, d. Nov. 26, 1798, m. 
Thomas Carhart. 

3. '•Joshua, b. in 1721, d. March 4, 1800, m. 
Mary Park. 

4. '•Hackaliah, b. in 1723, d. March 3, 1805, m. 
Hannah Budd. 

3 Samuel, b. May i, 1695, lived at Rye, N. Y., d. 
March 4, 1753, m. ist, Apl. 19, 1709, Glorinda, 
dau. of Daniel and Charlotte Strang, b. in 1687, 
d. Dec. 6, 1726, m. 2nd, Sarah, widow of Joseph 
Budd, and had by ist wife: 

1. " Samuel, b. March 23, 1710, d. Sept. 5, 1796, 
m. Dec. 17, 1735, Winifred, dau. of Jacob and 
Winifred Griffin, and had: 

1. sLavina, b. about 1737, m. Eleazer 
Gedney. 

2. s Jacob, b. Oct. 15, 1739, d. Dec. 20, 1822, 
m. Abigail Smith, lived at White Plains, 
N. Y. 

3. 5 Samuel, b. about 1745, d. in 1784. 

4. s Henry, b. in 1753, d. July 20, 1826, m. 
Feb. 16, 1773, Tamar Kniffen, removed to 
Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia. 

5. s Gabriel, b. May 18, 1755, d. in 1847, 
m. Esther Angevine, removed to West- 
chester, Nova Scotia. 

6. s Gilbert, b. in 1757, m. March 26, 1781, 
Bethia Fisher, removed to Malagash, 
Nova Scotia. 

2. '• Caleb, b. Jan. 25, 171 1, d. April 7, 1794, m. 
Dec. II, 1739, Hannah, dau. of Samuel and 
Hannah (Rundle) Brown, b. March 20, 1721, 
d. June II, 1805, and had: 

1. s Clarina, b. Oct. 7, 1740. 

2. s Caleb, b. Jan. i, 1743, removed to 
Round Hill, Greenwich, Conn., d. Oct. 14, 
1783, m. April 25, 1771, Ruth, dau. of 
Theophilus Peck, b. Feb. 7, 1746, d. Sept. 
16, 1822, and had: 



634 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

1. ^ Ruth, b. Feb. 8, 1772, m. Nov. 30, 
1795) Nathaniel Knapp. 

2. ^ Caleb, b. Jan. 18, 1774, m. July 25, 
1793, Polly Reynolds. 

3. ^ Sarah, b. June 16, 1776, m. Sept. 3, 
1797, Nehemiah Brown. 

4. ^ Elias, b. March 27, 1780, d. Dec. 5, 
1828, m. Clara, dau. of Gideon Peck, 
b. May 29, 1783, d. Nov. 3, 1850, 
and had: 7 Caleb, ^ Mary E., ^ Sally 
A., 7 Hannah M., and ^ Elias. 

3. 5 Samuel, b. Nov. 5, 1744, d. May 15, 

182 1, m. 1st, Phebe , m. 2d, widow 

Glorianna Halstead, and had: ^Gabriel, 
^ Samuel, ^ Phebe, ^ Elizabeth, « Glori- 
anna, and ^ Hannah. 

4. 5 Nehemiah, b. March 17, 1747, d. Oct. 2, 
1842, m. ist, Mary Park, b. Aug. 24, 1752, 
m. 2d, July 28, 1780, Elizabeth Birdsall, 
b. in 1753, d. May 24, 1846, and had: 

1. ^Thomas, b. about 1770, d. Dec. 18, 
1843, at Bedford, N. Y., m. ist, 
Rebecca Peck, m. 2d, Mary Peck. 

2. ^ Anna, b. about 1776, d. Nov. 17, 
1826, m. William Secor. 

3. ^ Elizabeth, b. Oct. 26, 1783, d. Aug. 
26, 1847. 

4. ^ Deborah, b. in 1786, d. Sept. 25, 
1854, unm. 

5. ''Nehemiah, bapt. Sept. 18, 1791, d. 
Nov. 2, 1869, m. Oct. 15, 1815, 
Elizabeth Treadwell. 

6. ^ Caleb B., b. May 24, 1791, d. Oct. 
22, 1851. 

5. 5 Josiah, b. March 17, 1747, d. March 22, 
1830, m. June 23, 1774, Eunice Knapp, 
and had: ^Josiah, ^Joshua K., ^Rachel, 
^ Mary, ^ Rachel, ^ Benjamin, and ^ Sarah. 

6. s jjannah, b. Nov. 12, 1750, m. Dec. 6, 
1770, Abraham Peck. 

7. s Sylvanus, b. Nov. 13, 1752, d. Oct. 29, 

1834, unm. 

8. s Lavina, b. Feb. 9, 1755, d. Jan. 12, 1838, 
m. May 30, 1782, Israel Peck. 

9. ^Elias, b. April 7, 1757, d. Sept. 5, 1831, 
m. Feb. 7, 1786, Rachel Merritt, and had: 
^Elias, ^Merritt, "^ William" H., ^ Caleb, 
^ Sarah, and ^ Ophelia. 

10. s Andrew, b. Aug. 7, 1760, d. April i, 1846, 



Purdy Family 635 

m. Phebe Merritt, and had: "Mary, 
"Robert, "Andrew, "Phebe H., "John 
M., and " EffaHnda. 
II. 5 Anne, b. June 16, 1763, d. June 16, 1763. 

3. 'I Glorianna, b. March 31, 1714, d. Sept. 13, 
1765, m. George Merritt. 

4. '' Charlotte, b. Sept. 30, 1716, d. July 30, 1791, 
m. Samuel Fowler. 

5. "• Josiah, b. in 1718, d. in 1760, m. Charity, dau. 
of Rev. James Wetmore, and had: 

1. 5 Seth, b. , m. Phebe Ketcham of 
Long Island, and had: "Joshua, " Seth, 
"Josiah, " Keziah, " Alathea, "Elizabeth, 
" Charity, " Melinda, and " Phebe. 

2. 5 Alathea, b. , m. ist, Joseph Purdy, 
m. 2d, William Purdy. 

3. 5 Esther, b. , m. Henry Purdy of 
King Street. 

4. 5 Anna, b. , m. Josiah Merritt. 

6. '' Gabriel, b. in 1721, d. in 1803, in Canada, m. 
Bethia Miller. 

7. ^ Elizabeth, b. , m. Josiah Fowler. 

8. '' Henry, b. in 1725, d. in 1782, m. Mary Foster, 
removed to Orange County, N. Y., issue. 

^ David, b. , removed to Ulster County, N. Y., 

m. , and had: ''Isaiah, '♦Nathan, '♦David, 

'♦ Gilbert, '* Samuel, '• Josiah, '♦ Martin, and 
'♦ Lavina. 

3 Jonathan, of White Plains, b. about 1693, d. in 
1772, m. Mary, dau. of Jonathan and Hannah 
(Budd) Hart, b. April 2, 1694 and had: 

1. '♦ Maryan, b. April 5, 1722, d. March 7, 1763, 
m. William Anderson. 

2. '♦ Hannah, b. March 7, 1724. 

3. '♦ Judah, b. Sept. 15, 1726. 

4. '♦Jonathan, b. April 20, 1728, d. in 1783, m. 
Charity, dau. of Job and Elizabeth (Griffin) 
Hadden, and had: 

1. 5 Jonathan, killed by the fall of a tree, age 
eighteen. 

2. s Glorianna, b. July 20, 1757, m. Henry 
Budd. 

3. 5 Sarah, b. 

4. sEbenezer, b. March 15, 1763, d, Oct. 8, 
1813, m. Dec. 2, 1788, Eunice Purdy, b. 
April 17, 1 761, and had: 

1. " David, b. Aug. 7, 1791. 

2. "Susannah, b. April i, 1793. 

3. " Moses, b. July 7, 1795. 



636 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

4. ^ Emery, b. July 13, 1797. 

5. ^ Margaret, b. 

6. ^ Charlotte, b. 

5. 5 Job, b. , m. Phebe Gedney. 

6. 5 Timothy, b. , m. ist. Amy Hobbs, 
m. 2d, Mary Hunt, and had: ^Augustus, 
^ Jonathan, ^ Amy, ^ Delia, ^ Charity, 
and ^ Eliza. 

7. 5 Benjamin, b. Dec. i, 1770, m. Elizabeth, 
dau. of Samuel Purdy, and had: '^Jona- 
than, ^ Sylvanus, * Jonathan, ^ Samuel, 
and ^ Benjamin. 

8. 5 Charity, b. Aug. 26, 1773. 

9. 5 EHzabeth, b. 

5. '' Joseph, b. April 20, 1728, d. Jan. 24, 1786, m. 
about 1750, Charity, dau. of Christopher and 
Sarah Eisenhart, b. Sept. 15, 1733, d. Dec. 
24, 1796, and had: 

1. s Joseph, b. Jan. i, 1751, d. before 1783, m. 
in 1778, Althea Purdy, issue. 

2. s Christopher, b. Oct. 22, 1752, d. yoimg. 

3. sMary, b. Jan. i, 1754, d. Oct. 19, 1791, 
unm. 

4. s Jonathan, b. Oct. 24, 1756, d. April 9, 

1842, m. 1st, May 21, 1786, Abigail 
Purdy, m. 2d, in 1797, Charlotte Haight, 
m. 3d, July 28, 1814, Mary Purdy, issue. 

5. 5 Qharity, b. Dec. 12, 1758, m. in 1785, 
Purdy. 

6. 5 Sarah, b. Dec. 17, 1760, m. Oct. 14, 1783, 
Robert Hart. 

7. s Eisenhart, b. Nov. 8, 1762, d. Dec. 6, 
1793, m. in 1782, Lavina Purdy, issue. 

8. 5 Pamela, b. Sept. 17, 1764, m. Jan. 29, 
1785, Abraham Knox. 

9. s Monmouth, b. May 7, 1766, m. , 
issue. 

10. ^ Bartholemew, b. April 11, 1768, m. , 
issue. 

11. 5 Henry, b. June 30, 1770, d. in 1823, 
unm.. 

12. s Micah, b. Feb. 24, 1773, d. in 1859. 

13. 5 Mariam, b. Jan. 35, 1775. 

6. "Elijah, b. April 27, 1729, d. Aug. 8, i8i6,^m. 
Lavina, dau. of David and Millicent (Lane) 
Haight, b. Aug. 28, 1735, d. Aug. 8, 181 1, and 
had: 

I. 5 Samuel, b. Feb. 3, 1752, d. July 8, 1823, 
m. Mary Purdy, issue. 



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637 



s David, b. Dec. 3, 1753, d. March 21, 
1826, m. Aug. 30, 1780, Maria Rapelye. 
s Elijah, b. Jan. 19, 1756, d. March 2, 1826, 
m. Sarah Hart. 

s Millason, b. Sept. 3, 1757, d. May 23, 
1761. 

sjohn, b. Aug. 22, 1759, d. March 10, 
1821, m. , no issue, 
s Mary, b. Feb. 16, 1761, d. Oct. 8, 1822, 
m. Oct. 15, 1785, John Purdy. 
s Abigail, b. April 7, 1764, d. March 30, 
1 796, m. March 21,1 786, Jonathan Purdy. 
5 Lavina, b. Dec. 20, 1765, d. Sept. 5, 
1848, m. 1st, Eisenhart Purdy, m. 2d, 
Gilbert Hatfield. 
9. s Judith, b. April 12, 1768, d. Feb. 22, 
1847, m. Feb. 16, 1790, Samuel Haviland. 

10. s Millason, b. June 24, 1770, d. Feb. 5, 
1841, m. Nov. 6, 1791, Thomas Halstead. 

11. s Israel, b. May 10, 1772, d. March 12, 
1829, m. Nancy , issue. 

12. s Esther, b. July 17, 1775, d. March 22, 
1843, unm. 

7. ■* Isaac, b. Nov. 14, 1732, d. March 18, 1816, 

m. 1st, Sarah Budd, m. 2d, Deborah , 

and had by ist wife: ^ Ann, s Sarah, s Isaac, 
s Hannah, ^ Budd, ^ Jonathan, ^ Gilbert, and 
5 Elisha, no children by 2d wife. 

8. 4 Ann, b. Feb. 14, 1734, d. Sept., 1734. 

^ Still John, b. Dec. 9, 1695, m. Elizabeth , b. 

July 12, 1709, removed to North Castle, N. Y., and 

had: 

I. 

2. 

3- 



y A 



6 



4 Still John, b. Feb. 12, 1728. 

'' Daniel, b. Aug. 15, 1731. 

'' Elisha, b. March 17, 1740, d. March 20, 1820, 

m. Mehitable Smith. 

"Francis, b. Sept. 17, 1742, d. in 1827, m. ist, 

Martha Hyatt, m. 2d, Elizabeth Williams. 

" Joseph, b. Nov. 13, 1744, d. Dec. 25, 1828, m. 

Winifred Gedney. 

" Nathaniel, b. Nov. 30, 1746, d. Feb. 6, 1830, 

m. ist, Esther Miller, m. 2d, Anne Lockwood. 
3 Francis, b. in 1697, removed to Newburgh, N. Y., 
d. Jan. 2, 1760, m. Abigail, dau. of John and Abi- 
gail WilHams, b. in 1708, and had: "Stephen, 
" Abigail, " Martha, " Elizabeth, and a dau. who 
married Ter Bush. 
3 EHzabeth, b. 
3 Jude, b. , was the 2d wife of John Horton. 



638 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

10, ^ Mary, b. 

11. ^ Phebe, b. , m. Daniel Strang. 

4. ^ Samuel, under age in 1661. No further record can be 
found, probably d. young, 

5. ^ Daughter, under age in 1661. 

REYNOLDS FAMILY. 

John Reynolds, bom in England, in 161 2; came to 
America in 1633; first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, 
where records are to be found of him in 1635; removed to 
Wethersfield, Connecticut; from thence to Stamford, Con- 
necticut, in 164 1 ; and finally settled in Greenwich, Old Town, 
in 1650, where he died about 1660. He married Sarah 

, bom in England in 1614, and died in Stamford, Aug. 

21, 1657. Their children were: Elizabeth, Jonathan, and 
John. 

Several copies of the author's data on this family have 
been sold, and the first five generations thereof were published 
in 1908, in the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Reynolds 
Family Association. 

RITCH FAMILY. 

' Henry Rich bought land of Caleb Webb in Stamford, 
Connecticut, in 1681 ; sold out in 1685, and removed to 
Greenwich, Connecticut, where he was granted three acres 
of land. May 19, 1686; died there the latter part of 1710; 
married ist, Oct. 21, 1680, Martha, daughter of Robert 
Penoyer; married, 2nd, Sarah ^ — -. There is record of 
only two children. 

I. ^ Thomas, b. about 1682, m. Ruth , and had: 

I. ^ Thomas, b. April 24, 1716, d. in 1778, m. Jan. il, 
1739, Ruth , and had: 

1. •* Mary, b. Nov. 9, 1739. 

2. '' Henry, b. Jan. 3, 1742, d. in 1776, m. Hannah 
, and had: 

I. 5 Ebenezer, b. Aug. 22, 1766, d. June 14, 
1847, at Napanock, Ulster County, N. Y., 
m. Dec. 31, 1790, Esther Grossman, b. 
Dec. 12, 1770, d. Dec. 2, 1832, at Napa- 
nock, Ulster County, N. Y., and had: 

1. ^ Henry, b. , m. Phebe Fair. 

2. ^JohnC., b. , m. Hayes. 

3. ^ Thomas J., b. Feb. 9, 1807, d. in 



Ritch Family 



639 



1879, m. June 18, 1829, Sarah Russell, 

b. July 14, 1808, d. Jan. 4, 1864. 

^ Hetty, b. , m. 

^ Sallie, b. , m 

^ Jane, b. , m. 

^ Jared, b. about 1770. 
s Anne, b. about 1772 



4- 
5- 
6. 



Van Tassel. 
- Grossman. 
Collins. 



2. 

3- 

4. 5 Hannah, b. about 1774. 

3. "• Martha, b. Oct. 7, 1745, d. in 1774, unm. 

4. ''Ruth, b. Nov. 24, 1749. 

5. '^ Elizabeth, b. March 13, 1755. 

^ John, b. May 4, 1718, m. Feb. 17, 1741, Jemima 
Holmes, and had (probably others) : 



I. 
2. 

3- 
4- 



5- 



, d. in 1782, m. 
d. in 1782. 
, m. Susannah — 



'» John, b. 
" Edward, b. 
4 David, b. 
"* Lemuel, b. 

1. s Sophia, bapt. Oct. 25, 1789. 

2. s Maria, bapt. Oct. 17, 1790, 

3. s Rufus, bapt. April 10, 1793. 

4. ^ Sarah, bapt. Aug. 11, 1800. 
'' James, b. June 8, 1763, m. ist, 



and had; 



Mary Ann 
2d, Mary 



. 1795- 
1796, m. - 
6 Thersa, 
^ Harriet E 



Lock- 



^ Hannah, 
, ^ Chaun- 



2. 



Lockwood, b. April 15, 1763, m 
Whelpley, b. Oct. 18, 1774, and had 

1. s Henry, b. Oct. 9, 1783, d. March 8, 1862 

2. s Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1785. 

3. 5 Mary, b. May 28, 1787. 

4. s Lucy, b. in 1790. 

5. s Mary, b. April 18 

6. S Rufus, b. Oct. 9, 
wood, and had : 
^ Israel, ^ Susan A., 
cey, and ^ Sarah F. 

7. s Ralph, b. March 9, 1798. 

8. s Margaret, b. Sept. 30, 1799. 

9. s Abigail L., b. April 4, 1801. 

10. s Abraham A., b. Aug. i, 1803. 

11. s Betsy, b. March 7, 1805. 

12. 5 Amy, b. March 9, 1807. 

13. s Daniel, b. March 13, 1809. 

14. s James, b. Aug. 3, 1812. 

3. 3 Ruth, b. March 8, 1720, d. Aug. 5, 1750, m. Jan. 

21, 1745, Joseph Reynolds, b. Aug. 27, 1727. 
^Elizabeth, b. about 1700, m. May 8, 1723, Samuel 
Burley. 



RUNDLE FAMILY. 

' William Rundle, possibly a son of William Randle of 



640 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Scituate, Massachusetts, bapt. Jan. 2, 1647, was granted, 
Dec. 30, 1670, by the Town of Greenwich, a part of the 
uppermost meadows lying south of the Westchester Path, and 
on March i, 1671, eight acres of land to be laid out by the 
Mianus River; died in 1716, married Abigail Tyler, and had: 

1. ^ John, b. , m. Elizabeth, dau. of Joshua Knapp, b. 
in 1688, and had: 

1. 3 Eli, b. , d. , m. Elizabeth , and had: 

1. "Eli, b. 

2. ''John, b. , m. Dec. 23, 1742, Rebecca 
Close, and had: 

1. 5 John, b. Sept. 12, 1743. 

2. 5 Deborah, b. May 27, 1745. 

3. ^ Mary, b. , m. Israel Mead; 
and perhaps others. 

2. ^ John, b. 

3. 3 Samuel, b. 

2. ' William, b. , d. May 19, 1733, m. April 12, 1722, 
Sarah Knapp, d. in 1737, and had: 

1. ^ Elizabeth, b. June 22, 1723, d. young. 

2. ^ Sarah, b. Aug. 10, 1726, m. Knapp, 

3. 3 Charles, b. June i, 1728. 

4. 3 Amy, b. Oct. 23, 1730. 

5. ^ William, b. June 22, 1733, d. in 1783, m. Amy 
Mead, b. in 1737, d. Dec. 5, 1829, and had: 

1. "^ Elizabeth, b. , m. Wood. 

2. -» Abigail, b. , m. Mead. 

3. "* Charity, b. , m. Smith. 

4. ''Amy, b. in 1760, m. Samuel Palmer, b. Nov. 

3. 1757- 

5. ''Sarah, b. Jan. 2, 1766, m. Levi Palmer, b. 
Sept. 9, 1763. 

6. '' Rachel, b. , m. Banks. 

7. '' Anne, b. , m. Reynolds. 

3. 'Abraham, b. , d. in 1750, m. March 31, 1721, 
Rebecca Mead, and had: 

1. ^ Sarah, b. Jan. 22, 1722, m. Joseph Tucker. 

2. 3 Jeremiah, b. 

3. ■^ Abraham, b. 

4. ^ Jonathan, b. 

5. 3 Mary, b. , m. John Silkman. 

6. 3 Abigail, b. , m. Jonathan Finch. 

4. ^ Abigail, b. , m. Finch. 

5. ^ Samuel, b. , d. in 1761, m. March i, 1715, Hannah, 
dau. of Samuel and Rebecca (Hobby) Hardy, d. in 1768, 
and had: 

I. ^ Hannah, b. April 16, 1716, m. Dec. 2, 1736, Caleb 
Mead. 



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641 



2. 



3- 



4- 

5- 
6. 



^Rebecca, b. Feb. 26. 1718, m. June 6, 1742, 

Josiah Ingersoll. 

3 Samuel, b. Sept. 23, 1720, d. in 1811, m. Hannah 

, and had: 

I. ''Samuel, b. , d. before 181 1, m. , and 

had: ^ Samuel, b. 



2. 
3- 

4. 
5- 

6. 
had 



'♦ Phineas, b. 
4 Ruth, b. 
"* Hannah, b. 

^ Daughter, b. , m. Smith, and had: 

5 James and ^ Ruth. 

'' Daughter, b. , m. Brush, and 



5 Benjamin, ^ Samuel, and ^ James. 
3 Ezra, b. Jan. 10, 1725. 
3 Nathaniel, b. , d. April 25, 1726. 

3 Nathaniel, b. May i, 1728, d. in 1775, m. Hannah 

, and had : 

I. '» Nathaniel, and perhaps others. 

^ Amy, b. Oct. 22, 1730, d. Dec. 5, 1829, unm. 

3 Reuben, b. July 14, 1735, d. in 1815, m. Amy , 

and had: 

I. ''Reuben, b. March 10, 1757, d. at Greenville, 
Greene County, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1848, m. Dec. 
25, 1 78 1, Sarah, dau. of Francis and Abigail 
(Webb) Holly, b. March i, 1757, d. at Green- 
ville, N. Y., Dec. I, 1829, and had: 
I. s Josiah, b. Oct. 6, 1783, d. Aug. 10, 1869, 
m. Aug. 31, 1805, Abigail, dau. of Captain 
David Leavenworth, b. Aug. 6, 1783, d. 
Aug. 6, 1867. 

s Reuben, b. May i, 1785, d. Oct. 5, 1850, 
m. Charlotte King, no issue. 
5 Hardy, b. Jtdy i, 1788, m. Cornelia 
Simpson. 

4. s Sarah, b. Feb. 22, 1791. 

5. s Hannah, b. July i, 1794, m. Bartholemew 
Gedney. 

s John, b. Oct. 31, 1796, d. Feb 19, 1827, 
unm. 
s Horatio N., b. March 24, 1799. 

4 Deborah, b. , m. Gilbert Peck. 
4 Hannah, b. , m. Isaac Finch. 
4 Amy, b. . m. Peck. 



9. 
10. 



4 Samuel, b. April 20, 1766. 

'* Shadrach, b. 

4 Jonathan, b. 

3 Ann, b. Oct. 28, 1739, m. Mead. 

3 Rachel, b. about 1742, m. Mead. 



642 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

6. ^ Isaac, b. , m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas Close, b. 
March 20, 1705, and had: 

I. 3 Hannah, b. , m. Jonathan Palmer, b. Dec. 6, 

1724, and perhaps others. 

7. ^ Jacob, b. , d. in 1733, m. April i, 1729, Rebecca 
Knapp, and had: 

1. 3 Rebecca, b. March 28, 1730. 

2. 3 Jacob, b. Aug. 2, 1731, removed to Cortlandt 
Manor, N. Y., m. Rachel , and had: 

1. "Ezra, bapt. Oct. 29, 1758. 

2. "Jacob, bapt. Nov. 11, 1759. 

3. " Charles, bapt. May 29, 1763. 

4. " Josiah, bapt. May 29, 1763. 

5. "Abigail, bapt. Aug. 25, 1765. 

6. "John, bapt. March 27, 1768. 

7. " William, bapt. March 27, 1768. 

8. "" Joseph, b. , m. Aug. 15, 1729, Mindwell, dau. of 
John Ferris, and had: 

1. 3 Joseph, b. June 9, 1730. 

2. 3 Mindwell, b. Feb. 6, 1731. 

3. 3 Elizabeth, b. Oct. 4, 1733. 

4. 3 Abigail, b. May 23, 1735. 

9. * Sarah, b. , m. Knapp. 

ID. ^ Mary, b. , m. Finch. 

11. ^ Patience, b. 

12. ' Hannah, b. July 16, 1690, m. Samuel Brown. 

13. "" Elizabeth, b. 

SACKETT FAMILY. 

^ Simon Sackett, bom in England about 1600; came to 
America in the ship Lyon in 1630; first settled in Boston; 
removed to Newtown, Massachusetts, where he died in Oct., 
1635; married in England, Isabel , and had: 

1. ^ SIMON, b. in 1630, d. July 9, 1659, m. about 1652, 
Sarah, dau. of William Bloomfield. 

2. 'John, b. in 1632, d. Oct. 8, 1719, m. Abigail Hannum. 
I. 'SIMON, b. in 1630, d. July 9, 1659, m. about 1652, Sarah, 

dau. of William Bloomfield, removed to Springfield, Mass., 
and had : 

1. 3 Samuel, bapt. in 1653. 

2. 3 Joseph, b. Feb. 23, 1656, removed to Newtown, L. I., 
where he d. Sept. 23, 1719, m. ist, Elizabeth Betts, m. 
2d, , m. 3d, Mercy Whitehead, widow of Captain 
Thomas Betts. His son, the Rev. Richard Sackett, was 
pastor of the Second Congregational Church, Green- 
wich, Conn., from Nov. 27, 1717, to May 7, 1727, when 



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643 



he departed this life, leaving his church, then consisting 
of ten males. 
For the genealogy of this family, see The Sacketts oj 
America, published in 1907, by Charles Weygant. 



SCOFIELD FAMILY. 



^ Daniel Scofield, bom in County Lancaster, England, 
about 1595, came to America about 1635, and after a short 
sojourn in Massachusetts, removed to Wethersfield, Con- 
necticut; removed from there to Stamford, Connecticut, in 
1 641, where he died in 1669. His widow, Mary, daughter of 
Rev. John Youngs of Southold, L. I., afterwards became the 



wife of Miles Merwin. Their children were : 
iel, ^ John, ^ Joseph, and ^ Mary. 

1. ^ Sarah, b. about 1648, m. John Pettit, 

2. ^ Daniel, b. about 1650, d. , m. 



Sarah, ^ Dan- 



and had: 

1. 3 Samuel, b. , d. Jan. 20, 1707, m. Feb. 10, 1704, 
Eunice Buxton, after his d. she m. his brother, 
Joseph Scofield, and had: 

1. ''Hannah, b. Nov. 14, 1704. 

2. '•Samuel, b. Dec. 12, 1705, d. Dec. 2, 1706. 

3. '•Eunice, b. after Jan. 20, 1707. 

2. 3 Joseph, b. , d. Dec. 13, 1726, m. Aug. 11, 1709, 
his brother's widow, Eunice, and had: 

I. '•Samuel, b. Dec. 26, 171 6, and perhaps others. 
'John, b. about 1652, d. March 27, 1699, m. July 12, 
1677, Hannah, dau. of John Mead, and had: 
I. 3 Samuel, Sergeant, b. July 10, 1678, d. in 1768, m. 

ist, Hannah Mills, d. Nov. 14, 1740, m. 2d, Feb. 28, 

1 74 1, Hannah Sutherland, and had: 

1. '• Daughter, b. and d. April 29, 17 10. 

2. " Samuel, b. June 21, 1712, d. in 1786, m. May 
3, 1739, Hannah Lounsbury, and had: 

1. s Samuel, b. March 15, 1740, m. Aug. 14, 
1760, Hannah, dau. of Nathan Scofield. 

2. 5 Hannah, b. June 4, 1741, and perhaps 
others. 

3. '• Nehemiah, b. July 12, 1714. 

4. '♦John, b. Sept. 28, 1716. 

5. "Ely, b. Jan. 15, 1718. 

6. "Hannah, b. Dec. 11, 1719. 

7. '♦Isaac, b. June 13, 1720. 

8. '♦Abraham, b. May 29, 1721, d. young. 

9. " Mary, b. Feb. 20, 1722. 

10. "Abraham, b. Dec. 17, 1723, d. young. 

11. "Abigail, b. April 11, 1725, d. Nov. 30, 1726. 



644 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

12. '♦Sarah, b. Aug. ii, 1726. 

13. '•Abraham, b. Dec. 20, 1727. 

14. "Abigail, b. Dec. 27, 1730. 
By 2d wife: 

15. ''Elizabeth, b. Dec. 26, 1740. 

16. ''Hannah, b. June 4, 1741. 

2. ^ John, Sergeant, b. Jan. 15, 1680, d. in 1758, m. ist, 
Dec. 23, 1703, Mary Holly, d. Dec. 28, 1740, m. 2d, 
Nov. 17, 1743, Mary, widow of Caleb Mead, no 
issue. 

3. 3 Ebenezer, b. June 26, 1685, d. Aug. 2, 1725, m. 
April 10, 17 12, Ruth Slater, and had: 

1. '♦Ebenezer, b. Jan. 23, 1713. 

2. "• Hannah, b. June 8, 1716, m. Edmund Lock- 
wood. 

3. '•Samuel, 4th, b. about 1720, d. in 1762, no 
issue, and perhaps others. 

4. 3 Nathaniel, b. Dec. 10, 1688, d. in 1769, m. Jan. 21, 
1714, Elizabeth Pettit, and had: 

1. ''John, b. Oct. 4, 1716. 

2. '•Nathaniel, b. March 7, 1718. 

3. ''Jonathan, b. May 2, 1719. 

4. '^ Josiah, b. June 26, 1721. 

5. ''Elizabeth, b. Aug. 11, 1726. 

6. " David, b. May 13, 1727. 

7. '' Sylvanus, b. May i, 1729. 

8. "Thankful, b. Oct. 11, 1731. 

9. ''Silas, b. Dec. 10, 1735, d. young. 
10. '•Abraham, b. Feb. 17, 1737. 

5. ^ Mercy, b. Oct. 30, 1690, d. young. 

6. 3 Mary, b. Aug. 4, 1694, m. Dec. 17, 1709, Henry 
Lounsbury. 

7. 3 Susannah, b. March 2, 1698, m. Feb. 11, 1720, 
Caleb Smith. 

4. ^Joseph, b. about 1654, d. in 1675 from exposures 

undergone during King Philip's War, no issue. 
6. ^ Mercy, b. Nov., 1657. 

' Richard Scofield, probably a brother of Daniel Sco- 
field, above referred to, bom in England, about 1600; came 
to America about 1635, and after a short sojourn in Massa- 
chusetts, removed to Wethersfield, Conn.; removed from 
there to Stamford, Conn., in 1642, where he died in 1671. 
His widow afterwards married Robert Penoyer. Their chil- 
dren were : 

1. ''Elizabeth, b. Nov. 27, 1655. 

2. ^Jeremiah, b. Oct. i, 1658. 

3. ^ Richard, b. about 1660, bought land in the Town of 



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645 



Greenwich, March 7, 1698, m. Sept. 14, 1689, Ruth, 
dau. of John Brundage of Rye, N. Y., and had: 
I. 3 Jeremiah, b. April i, 1691, m. Jan. 20, 1714, Abi- 
gail Weed, and had: 

1. ''Jeremiah, b. Nov. 13, 1715. 

2. "I Richard, b. March 9, 1718. 

3. "Jonas, b. Sept. 11, 1720, and perhaps others. 
3 Joshua, b. Nov. 5, 1693, d. in 1762, m. Dec. 26, 
1 712, Ruth Youngs, and had: 

1. " Mary, b. Feb. 7, 1715, d. young. 

2. ■* Ruth, b. May 31, 1717. 

3. '^ Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1719, and perhaps others. 
3 James, b. April i, 1696, m. Dec. 24, 1722, Eliza- 
beth Weed, and had: 

1. "• Joseph, b. April 8, 1724. 

2. ''Mercy, b. Dec. 11, 1725. 

3. '' Rebecca, b. July 7, 1727, and perhaps others. 
3 Jonathan, b. Oct. 9, 1698. 
3 Hannah, b. Nov. 14, 1700. 
3 Deborah, b. Feb. 14, 1703. 

3 David, b. May 4, 1706, m. Dec. 18, 1729, Sarah 
Slason, and had: 



2. 



3- 



4- 
5- 
6. 

7- 



''Jonathan, b. Nov. 20, 1731. 
" David, b. Feb. 26, 1733. 
'' Sylvanus, b. June 26, 1736. 
'' Thaddeus, b. June 2, 1738. 
''John, b. Feb. 3, 1741. 



The author has been advised that a genealogy of this 
family is now being compiled. 

SELLECK FAMILY. 

The Selleck Family, also spelled Silleck, is descended 
from David Selleck, who was at Dorchester, Mass., in 1639, 
and at Boston, Mass., in 1644, died in 1654. Two of his 
sons, Jonathan, b. March 20, 1641, and John, b. Feb. 2, 1643, 
removed to Stamford, Conn., before 1663, and became the 
ancestors of the family in this vicinity. 

For the genealogy of this family, see History of Norwalk, 
Conn., by Rev. Charles M. Selleck, A.M., published in 1896. 

SEYMOUR FAMILY. 

^ Richard Seymour, bom in Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, 
England, about 1595; came to America about 1634, and 



646 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 



settled in Hartford, Conn., in 1639; removed to Farmington, 
Conn., in 1652; thence to Norwalk, Conn., before 1655, 
where he died Nov. 25, 1655; married Mercy Rashleigh, who 
after his death married, Nov. 22, 1656, John Steel, as his 2d 
wife. His children were : 

I. ^Thomas, b. about 1633, of Norwalk, Conn., m. Jan., 
1654, Hannah, dau. of Matthew Marvin, b. in 1634, d. 
in 1680, m. 2d, before 1689, Sarah, widow of Thomas 
Wildman of Bedford, N. Y., and had: 
I. ^Hannah, b. Dec. 12, 1654, m. Oct. 12, 1675, 

Francis Bushnell. 

^Abigail, b. Jan., 1656, m. Thomas Pickett. 

^ Mary, b. vSept., 1658. 

3 Sarah, b. Sept., 1658. 

3 Thomas, b. Sept., 1660, probably d. young. 

3 Elizabeth, b. Dec, 1663. 

3 Mercy, b. Nov., 1666. 

^ Matthew, b. May, 1669, m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel 
Hayes, and had: 



Oct. 



2. 

3- 

4- 
5- 
6. 

7- 



10. 
II. 



'' Matthew, bapt 
Ridge field, Conn. 
'' Samuel, bapt. Nov 
Stamford, Conn 



7, 1694, removed to 
17, 1694, removed to 



'' Thomas, b. 
Conn. 
4 Jehiel, b. 
•^ Hannah, b. 
" Elizabeth, b. 
" Ruth, b. 
'' Sarah, b. 
^ Catharine, b. 
'' Susan, b. 
" Daniel, b. 



removed to New Canaan, 

, removed to Huntington, L. I. 
, m. Nathan St. John. 
, m. Eleazer Bouton. 
m. Jabez Smith. 

, d. unm. 
, m. Josiah Roscoe. 



^ John, b. in 1672, m. Sarah, dau. of Jachin Gregory, 
and had : 



4 John, b. 
" Mary, b. 
'' Sarah, b. 
4 Abigail, b. 
'' Rebecca, b. 



, m. Thomas Hanford. 
, m. Daniel Trowbridge. 
, m. Nov. 5, 1729, JohnSelleck. 
, m. 1st, July 6, 1734, Elijah 
Whitney, m. 2d, John Bouton. 
6. "• Martha, b. , m. Samuel Jarvis. 

10. 3 Rebecca, b. Jan., 1675. 
^ Mary, b. about 1635, 

^John, b. about 1637, of Hartford and Farmington, 
Conn., m. Mary, dau. of John Watson, and had: 

1. ^ John, b. June 12, 1666. 

2. 3 Thomas, b. March 12, 1669. 



Sherwood Family 647 

3. 3 Mary, b. March 12, 1670. 

4. ^ Margaret, b. Jan. 17, 1675. 

5. ^Richard, b. Feb. 11, 1677. 

6. ^ Jonathan, b. Jan. 10, 1679. 

7. ^ Nathaniel, b. Nov. 6, 1680. 

8. ^ Zachariah, b. Jan. 10, 1685. 

4. ^ Richard, b. about 1640, of Hartford and Farmington, 
Conn., m. Hannah, dau. of Matthew Woodruff, b. in 
1648, and had: 

1. ^ Samuel, b. 

2. ^ Mercy, b. Jan. 14, 1683. 

3. 3 Ebenezer, bapt. Feb. i, 1684, m. Abigail Hollister. 

4. 3 Jonathan, bapt. April 17, 1687. 

5. 3 Hannah, b. 

5. ^ Zachariah, b. in 1642, of Wethersfield, Conn., m, Feb. 

9. 1688, Mary Gritt, and had: 

1. ^ Mary, b. Jan. 26, 1689, m. Aug. 2, 171 1, Henry 
Grimes. 

2. 3 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 28, 1692, m. Feb. 7, 1712, 
Gideon B elding. 

3. 3 Abigail, b. May 15, 1694, m. Dec. 20. 17 16, James 
Ensign. 

4. ^ Ruth, b. April 10, 1699, d. young. 

6. ^ EHzabeth, b. about 1645. 

SHERWOOD FAMILY. 

' Thomas Sherwood, born in England, in 1586, sailed in 
April, 1634, from the port of Ipswich, England, in the ship 
Frances, with his wife, Alice, daughter of Robert Seabrook, 
bom in 1587, and five children: Ann, Hannah, Rose, Thomas, 
and Rebecca, for America. After a short stay in Massa- 
chusetts, he and his family removed to Wethersfield, Conn. ; 
removed to Stamford, Conn., in 1641, sold out in 1648, and 
removed to Fairfield, Conn., where he died in 1655. He 
married 2d, Mary, daughter of Thomas Fitch, who after his 
death married John Banks. Children by his 1st wife: 

1. ^ Ann, b. in England, about 1624, d. young. 

2. ^ Hannah, b. in England, about 1626. 

3. ^ Rose, b. in England, about 1628. 

4. ^ Thomas, b. in England, about 1630, d. at Fairfield, 
Conn., in 1697, m. ist, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Wheeler, 
m. 2d, Ann, dau. of Benjamin Turney, m. 3d, Elizabeth, 
widow of John Cable, Jr., m. 4th, Sarah, widow of 
Peter Coley, and dau. of Humphrey Hide, and had: 
3 Thomas, ^ Sarah, ^ Mary, ^ Benjamin, ' Samuel, 
3 Ruth, 3 Hannah, ^ Abigail, ' Isaac, and ^ Phebe. 



648 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

5. * Rebecca, b. about 1632. 

6. ^ Jane, b. about 1634. 

7. "^ Tamsen, b. about 1636. 

8. "" Sarah, b. about 1638. 
By 2d wife: 

9. * STEPHEN, b. about 1641, removed to Greenwich, Conn., 
and thence to Rye, N. Y. 

ID. * Matthew, Captain, b. about 1643, d. Oct. 26, 1715, m. 
1st, Sarah, dau. of Benjamin and Mary Tumey, by 
whom he had: ^ Matthew; m. 2d, Mary, dau. of Thomas 
Fitch of Norwalk, Conn., by whom he had: ^ Samuel, 
3 Lemuel, ^ John, ^ Mary, ^ Sarah, and ^ Ann. 

11. ^ Ruth, b. about 1645. 

12. * Isaac, b. about 1647, m. Elizabeth, dau. of John and 
Elizabeth Jackson; was at East Chester, N. Y., in 1676; 
at Rye, N. Y., in 1678; at Compo, Conn., in 1687, where 
he was still living in 1733; children: ^ Daniel, ^ Isaac, 
3 John, 3 David, ^ Abigail, ^ Thomas, and ^ Elizabeth. 

13. ^ Abigail, b. about 1649, d. young. 

14. * Mary, b. about 1652, d. young. 

^STEPHEN, above referred to, b. about 1641, removed to 
Greenwich, Conn., where he was granted, March 16, 
1674, an interest in the outlands lying between the 
Mianus and Byram Rivers. In 1696, then of Rye, N. 
Y., he confirms the sale of the mill at the Mianus River 
to Dr. John Butler of Stratford, d. at Rye, N. Y. ; m.. ist, 
before i66t, Rebecca, dau. of Benjamin and Mary 
Turney, b. Feb. 16, 1639, ^i. 2d, in 1686, Hannah, dau. 
of Henry Jackson, and widow of Philip Galpin, m. 3d, 
before 1701, Mary, dau. of Edward and Mary Adams, 

and widow of Merwin, and also widow of Luke 

Guyer, b. in 1647, d. in 1712, and had by ist wife: 

1. ^ Stephen, b. about 1661, d. at Rye, N. Y., in 1712, 
m. Mary Hait, and had (will in N. Y. Co.) : 

1. '♦Mary, b. about 1690. 

2. "• Stephen, b. about 1692, m. , and had: 
I. ^ Nehemiah, b. about 1722, and perhaps 

others. 

3. '' Ruth, b. , d. young. 

2. 3 Joseph, b. about 1663, d. at Rye, N. Y., in 1748, 
m. Elizabeth , and had : 

1. ''Joseph, b. about 1688, removed to Cortlandt 
Manor, N. Y. 

2. '» Elizabeth, b. about 1690, m. Solomon Purdy. 

3. '' Phebe, b. about 1693, i^- Gilbert Bloomer. 

3. 3 Daniel, b. about 1665, removed to Fairfield, 
Conn., where he d. in 171 5. 

4. 3 Mary, b. about 1667, m. Daniel Burr. 

5. 3 Nathaniel, b. about 1669, d. at Rye, N. Y., in 



Sherwood Family 649 

1732, m. Abigail , and had (will in N. Y. Co.) : 

1. ''Nathaniel, b. about 171 1, d. at Greenwich, 
Conn., in 1775. 

2. '' Nehemiah, h. about 1713. 

3. ''Stephen, b. about 1715. 

4. ''Rebecca, b. about 1717. 

5. '' Jabez, Captain, of Greenwich, Conn., b. Dec. 
28, 1719, d. March 15, 1788, m. July 9, 1739, 
Hannah Disbrow, b. March 22, 1719, and had: 

1. s Rebecca, b. March 5, 1740, m. Daniel 
Merritt. 

2. s Ruth, b. Oct. 5, 1741, m. Shubal Kniffen. 

3. s Hannah, b. Jan. 9, 1744, m. April 29, 
1762, Samuel Peck, b. Jan. 22, 1739. 

4. 5 Mary, b. April 24, 1746, m. Isaac Ferris. 

5. 5 Jabez, b. Aug. 15, 1748, d. Aug. 18, 1814, 

m. Eliza , b. in 1749, d. Sept. 12, 1816, 

and had : 

1. ^ Elizabeth, b. 

2. * Sarah, b. 

3. ^ Benjamin, b. March 6, 1774, d. Feb. 
16, 1862, m. Ann, dau. of Isaac and 
Hannah (Purdy) Anderson, b. July 
10. 1775. d. Nov. 10, 1843, and had: 
' Alanson, ^ Allen, ^ Mary, ^ Caro- 
^ line, 7 Warren, ^ Jotham, ^ Hannah, 
^ Mary, and ^ Rebecca. 

4. ^ Hannah, b. 

5. ^ Gertrude, b. 

6. ^ Mary, b. 

7. ^ Rebecca, b. 

6. 5 Susannah, b. April 18, 1752, d. unm. 

7. s Daniel, b. Feb. 21, 1756, d. June i, 1826, 
m. Pruella Lyon, b. Aug. 13, 1754, d. Feb. 
21, 1813, and had: 

I. "^ Jabez, b. , d. in 1827, m. ist, 

Kate , m. 2d, , and had: 

I. '^ William Benson, b. Aug. 28, 
1810, d. May 22, 1894, ^- ist, 
Aug. 28, 1 83 1, Eliza Ann Burns, 
b. bee. 27, 1804, d. Feb. 12, 1846, 
m. 2d, March 7, 1847, Emeline 
Knapp, b. March 18, 1808, d. 
Jan. 12, 1878, m. 3d, June 2, 
1882, Deborah Ann Eliza Clark, 
and had by ist wife: 
I. ^Frances A., b. Feb. 24, 
1834, m. Jan. 16, 1856, 
Adolphus F. Warburton. 



650 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

2. * William H.,b. Aug. 1, 1835, 
m. Sarah A. Matthews. 

3. * Darius, b. Jan. 17, 1837, 
m. Nov. 15, 1859, Hen- 
rietta Amanda Brown. 

4. * Eliza Benson, b. Nov. 20, 
1 841, m. Nov. 20, 1867, 
Stephen C. Peck. 

By 2d wife: 

5. ^ Harriet Palmer, b. Aug. I , 

1852, m. Dec. 28, 1881, 
Charles Samuel Glover. 
2, 3, 4. 5. all died young. 
6. 7 Hannah, b. in 1821, m. Dr. 
James Knight. 

2. ^ Hugford, b. in 1775, d. May 7, 1855, 
m. Betsy June, b. in 1791, and had: 

1. "^ Pruella, m. Elijah Lent. 

2. 7 Daniel W., b. Aug. 26, 1824, d. 
Nov. 30, 1838. 

3. "^ Aaron, removed to Colorado. 

4. 7 Joseph Edward, b. 

3. ^ Willet, b. Oct. 14, 1782, d. Jan. 31, 
1836, m. April 22, 1818, Polly, dau. 
of Nehemiah and Phebe (Merritt) 
Mead, b. July 3, 1797, d. Aug. 15, 
1858, and had: 

1. 7 John Mead, b. Jan. 8, 1819, d. 
Jan. 7, 1907, m. June 20, 1840, 
Mary Haines Ogden, b. April 9, 
1817, d. Feb. 9, 1879, and had: 

* Adelaide Augusta, * James 
Kilborn Ogden, ^ Henrietta, and 
» Ella Julietta. 

2. 7 George E., b. April 15, 1820, d. 
June 29, 1869, m. April 14, 1845, 
Margaret Purdy, b. June 27, 
1825, d. Dec. 14, 1857, and had: 

* Georgianna, ^ Mary L., * Kate, 
« Willet, « George W., and 

* Horatio Nelson. 

3. 7 Horatio N., b. June 3, 1822, d. 
Jan. 31, 1883, m. ist, Oct. 24, 
1847, Catharine A. Walters, m. 
2d, Jan. 30, 1858, Elizabeth A. 
Cook, b. Jan. 20, 1835. 

4. '7 Jeremiah, b. about 1824, prob- 
ably d. young. 

5. 7 William C, b. Feb. 10, 1826, d. 



Sherwood Family 651 

at Jackson, Cal., Feb. 13, 1908, 
m. Missouri A. Stephens, widow 
of Dennis, and had: * Wil- 
liam E. 

6. ■'Benjamin, b. Sept. 8, 1828, at 
New York City, d. at Morris- 
town, N. J., Nov. 9, 1877, ^- ist, 
May 7, 1 85 1, Kate, dau. of 
Halstead Townsend, d. at New- 
town, N. J., Jan. II, i860, and 
had: * Emma J. and * Frani: T., 
m. 2d, Nov. 12, 1861, Nancy M. 
Simonson, and had : * Carrie W., 
* Samuel S., and * Maud. 

7. 7 Mary E., b. Dec. 13, 1830, d. 
Oct. 15, 1890, m. May 7, 1851, 
Merritt Wickham, b. July 22, 
1823, d. Oct. 12, 1893. 

8. 7 Ann F., b. about 1832, m. ist, 
Jacob Sniffin, m. 2d, George 
Pierce. 

9. 7 Hezekiah, b. Feb. 16, 1835, d. 
Oct. 24, 1835. 

4. ^ Daniel, b. Aug. 20, 1784, d. June 21, 
1842, m. 1st, March 10, 1810, Phebe 
Sarles, b. March 20, 1789, d. March 
20, 1825, m. 2d, Nancy L. Raymond, 
b. in 1800, d. Aug. 24, 1840, and had : 

1. 7 Frederick A., b. Jan. 29, 1811, 
d. March 12, 1881, m. Mary 
Brown. 

2. 7 Nelson, b. Oct. 8, 1812, buried 
in Rye Cemetery, N. Y., m. 
Fanny Guest. 

3. 7 James, b. Jan. 23, 1815, d. at 
Norwalk, Conn., m. Nov. 5, 
1845, C. Read. 

4. 7 William Henry, b. Sept. 18, 
1816, d. Nov. 27', 1850, m. M. A. 
Nash. 

5. 7 Phebe L., b. March II, 1819, d. 
Sept. 17, 1838. 

6. ■^ Daniel J., b. Aug. 13, 182 1, m. 
Sarah Ann Purdy. 

7. 7 Mary Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 
1823, m. Amos Weed. 

By 2d wife : 

8. 7 Jane Ann, b. Oct. 5, 1827, m. 
Isaac B. Weed. 



652 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



9. "^ George, b. April 28, 1829, d. at 
San Francisco. 

10. "^ Sarah E., b. Nov. 29, 1830, m. 
Cornelius Purdy. 

11. 7 Charles, b. June i, 1833, d. at 
San Francisco. 

12. '' Samuel, b. March 14, 1835, ^i- 
Jeannette Fox. 

13. 7 Maria C, b. July 12, 1837, m. 
Charles Talmadge. 

14. ''Augustus L., b. Sept. 15, 1839, 
m. Mary Slater. 

^ Hannah, b. , m. Matthias An- 
derson. 

^ Mary, b. , m. ist, Miles Ed- 
wards, m. 2d, P. Bowen. 
^ Anna, b. 

^ Elizabeth, b. , m. Benjamin 

Peck. 

^ Sarah, b. , m. Richard Par- 

rott. 

^ Fanny, b. May, 1795, d. May 24, 
1872, m. Robert Kirk. 
8. s Elizabeth, b. Nov. 22, 1759, m. Daniel 
Lyon, b. Dec. 20, 1756, d. Aug. 29, 1817. 

6. ''Silas, b. about 1721. 

7. ''Abigail, b. about 1723. 

8. " Mary, b. about 1725. 

9. ''Sarah, b. about 1726. 

6. ^ Jabez, b. about 1671, d. at Greenwich, Conn., in 
1706, unm. 

7. 3 Jonathan, b. about 1673, of Rye, N. Y. 
Probably by 2d wife: 

8. 3 Ruth, b. about 1687, m. Merritt. 

9. ^ Samuel, b. about 1689, of Rye and Greenwich. 

10. 3 Andrew, b. about 1692, d. before 1740, m. Anne 
Young, and had: 

I. " Daniel, b. , and perhaps others. 

11. ^ John, b. about 1694, d. at Rye, N. Y., in 1740 
(will in N. Y. Co.), no issue. 



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6 

7 
8 

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SLATER FAMILY. 

Contributed by George A. Slater, of the New York Bar. 

The present name of Slater was, prior to the Revolu- 
tionary War, known as Slawter, and Slaughter. The family 
was settled on Hog Pen Ridge, now Ridge Street, in the 




GEORGE A. SLATER, OF THE NEW YORK BAR. 

ELECTED AS A REPUBLICAN MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY FROM THE FOURTH 

ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK, 

FOR THE YEAR 1912. 



Slater Family 653 

Town of Rye, N. Y., prior to 1730, The early settler was 
probably ' Abraham Slater, who is mentioned in the town 
records in 1730. He probably was of English descent, and 
had removed from Long Island, or Virginia. The muster 
rolls of the companies raised in Westchester County, N. Y., 
for the French and Indian War in 1 758, contain the name of 
Arnold Slaughter, aged seventeen years. ' Abraham Slater 
probably had : 

1. ^Arnold. 

2. ^ John. 

3. ^ Henry. 

^ John and ^ Henry were farmers owning land on Ridge 
Street in 1774. The early family burial ground was 
located on the farm, on the west side of Ridge Street, on 
the side hill, on property now owned by G. C. Clausen, 
and was only removed about 1900. ^ Henry Slater, m. 

, and had: 

I. ^John, b. , m. Polly Sniffin, lived on Ridge 

Street, Sawpits, served in the War of 1812, and had : 
I. '' John, b. 

4 JEREMIAH, b. 

4 Maria, b. 

^ Eliza, b. 

^ James, b. 

'^ Charles, b. 

4 Purdy G., b. 

4 Phebe, b. 

" Sarah, b. 
JEREMIAH, above referred to, was born at Sawpits, now 
Port Chester, Jan. 10, 1807, d. Aug. 17, 1890, m. Letitia 
Studwell, at Sawpits, Jan. 17, 1830, b. June 4, 1806, d. 
Nov. 14, 1896, both buried in Christ Church Cemetery, 
Borough of Greenwich, Conn., about 1850 they removed 
from Sawpits to the homestead of Richard Studwell, 
the father of Letitia, on the Stanwich Road at North 
Cos Cob, in the Town of Greenwich. They had: 

1. s Sanford, b. March 22, 1831, d. young. 

2. 5 Augustus, b. Nov. 17, 1834, d. young. 

3. s Sanford Augustus, b. April 5, 1839, d. Oct. 15, 
1897, buried in Christ Church Cemetery, Borough 
of Greenwich, Conn., m. in the City of New York, 
Oct. 29, 1863, Catharine McCarty, d. about 1870, 
also m. Nov. 23, 1887, Emma T. Carr. He served 
in the Civil War as assistant engineer in the 
United States Navy, and was honorably discharged 
in 1865. 

4. sAtwood, b. March 26, 1842, d. Oct. 28, 1905, 
buried in Union Cemetery, Rye, N. Y., m. Nov. 



9 



654 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

17, 1862, Julia E. Scott, in the City of New York, 
at Saint George Church, by the Rev. Dr. S. H. 
Tyng, she was b. at Greenwich, Conn., Oct. 17, 
1843, d. Feb. 23, 1904, buried at Union Cemetery, 
Rye, N. Y. He served in the Civil War as assistant 
engineer in the United States Navy, and was 
honorably discharged Nov. 9, 1865. He was en- 
gaged in business at Cos Cob, and in the Borough 
of Greenwich, Conn., from 1866 until his death. 
They had: 

1. * George A., b. Sept. 2, 1867, now living 
at Port Chester, N. Y., and is an attorney at 
law; has been a member of the Board of Trus- 
tees of the Village of Port Chester, and counsel 
to the Town of Rye; m. June 2, 1891, at Port 
Chester, N. Y., Eva Elizabeth Sours, and had: 
I. 7 Ruth, b. Jan. 11, 1899, d. Jan. 22, 1899. 

2. ^ Edward S., LL.B., b. Jan. 7, 1878, now living 
at Greenwich, Conn., and is an attorney at 
law; m. Nov. 23, 1904, at Bowling Green, Ky., 
Eleanor Stubbins, and had: ^ Mary Gladys 
and ' Julia Eleanor. 

SMITH FAMILY. 

Several persons by the name of Smith were early settlers 
in the Town of Stamford, Conn., and among the number 
were: 

John Smith, Sr., and Jr., who were granted home lots 
in 1 641. They both removed to Long Island. John Smith, 
Sr. , was possibly a son of Thomas Smith of London, St. Mary 
Adermanbury Parish. 

^ Henry Smith, bom in England in 1619, possibly a son of 
Thomas Smith of London, St. Mary Adermanbury Parish, 
came to America about 1635, and after a short stay in 
Massachusetts, removed to Wethersfield, Conn.; removed 
from there to Stamford, Conn., in 1641, and was granted a 
home lot, where he died in 1686; married 1st, , 

m. 2d, Aim — - — , d. in June, 1685. He served in the Pequod 
War. Children by ist wife: 

1. ^ Samuel, b. about 1646, d. Aug. 16, 1658, unm. 

2. ^ Daniel, b. in 1648, removed to Greenwich, Conn., d. 
there March 3, 1740, m. Hannah, dau. of Joshua and 
Hannah (Close) Knapp, b. March 26, 1660, d. March 
29, 1 72 1, and had: 

I. 'Joshua, b. , d. Dec. 19, 1706, unm. 



Smith Family 



655 



3 Daniel, b. about 1680, d. in 1756, m. ist, April 
25, 1706, Rebecca Butler, d. April 17, 1751,01. 2d, 
Mary , and had: 

1. ''Rebecca, b. March 5, 1707. 

2. '» Hannah, b. Nov. 15, 1710. 

3. '' Sarah, b. July 7, 1714. 

4. '' Daniel, b. Sept. 2, 1716, living in 1802, m. 
Feb. 16, 1754, Lydia, dau. of Daniel Banks, 
and had : 

I. s Lydia, b. Dec. 8, 1754, d. Jan. 27, 1824, 
m. Dec. 10, 1775, Jared Mead, b. Dec. 15, 
1738, d. May 8, 1832. 

5. ''Ruth, b. Jan. 4, 1718. 

6. " Mary, b. Feb. 18, 1720. 

7. '' John, b. April 10, 1723. 
'' Abigail, b. June 13, 1725. 
"Joshua, b. June 10, 1728, m. May 22, 1765, 
Nevill Conklin, d. Sept. 24, 1766. 

10. ''Elizabeth, b. May 5, 1732. 
3 Joseph, b. , d. March 12, 1755, m. Dec. 7, 

1708, Mary Cornell of Danbury, Conn., and had: 

1. "Joseph, b. Nov. 24, 1711, d. in 1745, m. Jan. 
6, 1737, Sarah Hait, and had: 

1. ^Hannah, b. Feb. 8, 1739. 

2. s Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1740. 

3. 5 Rachel, b. Sept. 2, 1742. 

2. 4 Mary, b. March 27, 1713, m. Ebenezer Sco- 
field of North Castle, N. Y. 

3. " Amos, b. Oct. 17, 1716, d. in 1765, m. Jan. 7, 
1743, Sarah Blackman, and had: 

1. 5 Amos, b. Oct. 4, 1743. 

2. s Joseph, b. July 18, 1746. 

3. s josiah, b. July 12, 1750. 

4. ^ Sarah, b. Sept. 6, 1752. 

5. s Mary, b. Nov. 29, 1756. 

6. s Abigail, b. March 29, 1759. 

4. '•Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1719, d. Jan. 17, 1736. 

5. " Hannah, b. July 14, 1721, d. Jan. 17, 1736. 

6. " Daniel, b. April 24, 1725, m. Feb. 4, 1748, 
Deborah Webb, and had: 

1. s Sarah, b. March 25, 1749. 

2. s Daniel, b. Oct. 6, 1751. 

3. s Cornell, b. May 7, 1753. 

4. 5 Hannah, b. June 16, 1755. 

5. s Luke, b. April 19, 1757. 

6. s Ezra, b. April 21, 1759. 

7. s Joseph, b. Jan. 15, 1762. 

7. '•Isaac, b. Jan. 6, 1728, d. Jan. 25, 1736. 

8. '•John, b. about 1729, d. Jan. 9, 1736. 



656 Ye Historic of Te Yown of Greenwich 

9. "Abigail, b. about 1730, d. Jan. 18, 1736. 

4. 3jabez, b. , m. ist, Feb. 13, 1711, Sarah 
Slason, m. 2d, Dec. 23, 1733, Mindwell Bates, and 
had by ist wife: 

1. "Son, b. March 6, 1714. 

2. " Jabez, b. April 23, 1716, and perhaps others. 
By 2d wife: 

3. "Jabez, b. Nov. 11, 1734. 

4. " Mercy, b. Oct. 12, 1736. 

5. ^ Caleb, b. , m. Feb. 11, 1720, Hannah Sco- 
field, and had: 

1. "Susannah, b. Feb. 16, 1721. 

2. "Hannah, b. Sept. 8, 1723. 

3. 4 Caleb, b. July 24, 1725. 

4. "John, b. Sept 24, 1727, m. , and had: 
I. 5 Susannah, Id., and perhaps others. 

5. " Nathaniel, b. Nov. 11, 1729, d. in 1767, unm. 

6. "Mary, b. Dec. 25, 1731, d. Oct. 31, 1735. 

7. " David, b. April 10, 1734, d. Nov. 18, 1735. 

8. "Mary, b. Aug. 17, 1736. 

9. " David, b. Jan. 10, 1739. 

6. 3 Nathan, b. 

7. 3 Benjamin, b. , m. Hannah, dau. of Angell 
Husted, and had: 

1. "Hannah, b. Oct. 20, 1722. 

2. "Deborah, b. Dec. 22, 1723. 

3. "Benjamin, b. Dec. 26, 1725. 

4. "Peter, b. Feb. 3, 1729. 

5. " Mary, b. Sept. 13, 1732. 

6. "Daniel, b. May 15, 1735, m. in 1756, Mary 
Lewis of North Castle, N. Y. 

7. "Job, or Jonah, b. Oct. 27, 1737. 

8. "Solomon, b. March 15, 1740. 

8. 3 Mary, b. , m. May 23, 1723, Charles Webb. 
9 3 Hannah, b. , m. Weed. 

10. 3 Sarah, b. Dec. 28, 1702, m. John Bates. 

11. 3 Moses, b. Jan. 12, 1704, m. April 21, 1725, Susan- 
nah, dau. of Samuel and Susannah (Slason) Hoyt, 
and had: 

1. "Susannah, b. Dec. 12, 1726. 

2. "Abigail, b. Aug. 26, 1729. 

3. " Mary, b. May 25, 1732. 

4. " Moses, b. Aug. 17, 1734, killed at the Battle 
of Long Island, m. Jan. 26, 1769, Mary, dau. of 
William and Margery Wardwell, b. Sept. 11, 
1729, and had only one child: 

I. 5 Solomon, b. Sept. 30, 1769, m. Jan 20, 
1 791, Mary, dau. of John and Charity 
(Smith) Judson, b. July 30, 1777, and had : 



Smith Family 



657 



1. * Moses W., b. Jan. 7, 1792. 

2. ^ Harriet, b. March 3, 1794. 

3. ^ Maria, b. March 26, 1796. 

4. ^ Elihu, b. June 10, 1798. 

5. ^ Matilda, b. Aug. 6, 1800. 

6. ^ John J., b. Nov. i, 1802. 

7. ^ James, b. Jan. 6, 1805. 

8. 6 Julia E., b. April 26, 1808. 

9. ^ Charles E., b. March 14, 181 1. 

5. "Hannah, b. about 1736, d. Feb. 24, 1737. 

6. "Jesse, b. Julys, I739- 

7. "Ethan, b. Oct. 15, 1741. 

8. "Sarah, b. Jan. 5, 1744. 

12. ^Ezra, b. Nov. 24, 1705, m. ist, May 22, 1729, 
Mary Weed, b. in 1709, d. April 27, 1749, m. 2d, 
March 24, 1751, Martha Bellamy, and had by ist 
wife: 

1. "Ezra, b. Oct. 9, 1730. 

2. " Israel, b. Feb. 9, 1733, m. ist. May 29, 1757, 
Abigail Holly, d. April 12, 1758, m. 2d, Jan. 21 , 
1762, Hannah Holmes, and had by ist wife: 

1. s Abigail, b. March 10, 1758. 
By 2d wife: 

2. s Rebecca, b. Nov. 11, 1762, and perhaps 
others. 

3. "Abraham, b. May 3, 1735, m. Jan. 28, 1759, 
Mary Gales, and had: 

s Henry, b. Nov. 10, 1759. 
s Mary, b. Oct. 2, 1761. 
s Joseph, b. Dec. 29, 1763. 
^ Rebecca, b. April 8, 1766. 
^William, b. June 14, 1768. 
s Reuben, b. Sept. 26, 1771. 
5 Israel, b. Feb. 6, 1773. 
s Sarah, b. May 6, 1776. 
s Noah, b. Feb. 24, 1778. 
s Anne, b. April 27, 1780. 

4. " Mary, b. July 7, 1737. 

5. " Henry, b. Nov. 15, 1739. 

6. "Hannah, b. April 18, 1742. 

7. " Sarah, b. June 26, 1744. 

8. " Lydia, b. April 2, 1746. 
By 2d wife : 

9. " Elizabeth, b. Jan. 19, 1754. 



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2 
3 
4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

9 
10 

4 



3- 
4- 



10. "Ruth, b. Sept. 21, 1757. 

, m. May 22, 1729, James June. 
d. Oct. 3, 1658. 
, m. 1st, Caleb Knapp, m. 2d, Thomas 



13. 3 Ruth, b 
^ Mary, b. 
^ Hannah, b. 
Lawrence. 



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658 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



By 2d wife: 

5. 'John, b. , d. Nov. 3, 1711, m. ist, Elizabeth , 

d. Oct. 6, 1703, m. 2d, Phebe, dau. of Benjamin Green, 
and had by ist wife: 

I. 3 Ebenezer, twenty-one in 1712, d. in 1763, m. at 
Huntington, L. I., May 29, 1723, Hannah Whit- 
man, and had: 

1. ''Hannah, b. March 6, 1724. 

2. '' Ebenezer, b. Dec. 29, 1725, m. July 4, 1753, 
Mary Newman, and had: 

I. ■^ Mary, b. May 24, 1754, and perhaps 

others. 
"I Sarah, b. April 11, 1727, m. Hait. 



'' Elizabeth, b. Aug. 24, 1730, m. Jonas Hait. 
''Abigail, b. Feb. 3, 1736, m. Edmond Brown. 
" Kezia, b. May 4, 1738. 
"John, b. July 24, 1741. 

2. ^ Nathaniel, under twenty-one in 17 12. 

3. 3 Hannah, b. , d. Oct. 27, 1703. 

4. 3 Daughter, d. Oct. 10, 1703, and perhaps others. 
By 2d wife: 

5. ^John, b. Feb. 16, 1710, d. Sept. 7, 1724. 

6. 3 jjannah, b. April 7, 1711. 

6. ^Rebecca, b. , m. July 2, 1672, Edward Wilkinson 
of Milford, Conn. 

7. ' Abigail, b. 

John Smith, of Fairfield, Conn., d. in 1690, and had one child: 
I. ^ Samuel, under twenty-one in 1690, probably removed 

to Stamford, Conn., m. Mary , d. April 26, 1715, 

and had : 

1. ^Samuel, b. April 5, 1714. 

2. 3 Charles, b. April 7, 1715, m. June 10, 1736, Eliza- 
beth, dau. of Benjamin Knapp, and had: 

1. ''Samuel, b. May 18, 1737. 

2. '' Charles, b. July 30, 1739. 

3. '' Mary, b. July 28, 1741. 

4. ''Elizabeth, b. Jan. 26, 1743. 

5. " Ann, b. Nov. 23, 1746. 

6. ''Benjamin, b. Feb. 11, 1750. 

Jonathan Smith, son of Eleazer and Rebecca (Roland) Smith, 
of Fairfield, Conn., d. in Stamford, Conn., in 1762, m. Temper- 
ance , and had: 

I. ^Jonathan, b. Feb. i, 1726, m. March 16, 1757, Abigail 
Dibble, and had: 

1. ^Jonathan, b. Dec. 20, 1757. 

2. 5 Joseph, b. July 30, 1760. 

3. 3 David, b. Feb. 16, 1763. 



Studwell Family 659 

4. ^ Solomon, b. Feb. 6, 1766. 

5, 3 Abijah, b. March 21, 1769. 
2. ^ Whitman, b. June 27, 1730. 

Another family consisted of: 

1. Jeremiah, d. in 1770, unm. 

2. Moses, d. in 1758, unm. 

3. Hannah, m. Bell. 

4. Susannah, m. Curtis. 

5. John, b. 

6. Ezekiel, b. , d. in 1772, m. July 9, 1746, Martha 

Holly, and had: 

1. Ezekiel, b. 

2. Peter, b. 

3. Elizabeth, b. 

4. Phebe, b. Oct. 10, 1747. 

5. Rebecca, b. April 18, 1749. 

6. Martha, b. May 18. 1757. 

STUDWELL FAMILY. 

Reference, Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield 

County, Conn., published in 1899, by 

J. H. Beers & Co. 

''Thomas Studwell, also spelled "Stedwell, " bom in 
County Kent, England, about 1620, came to America about 
1641 ; first settled in Mass. ; removed to the Town of Green- 
wich before 1655, where he submitted to the jurisdiction of 
the New Haven Colony, Oct., 1656; was one of the original 
proprietors of Rye, N. Y., in 1660, sold out his interest in 
1663; removed to Stamford, Conn., where he died in 1670; 
married , probably at Stamford, and had : ^ Thomas, 

^ Joseph, and ^ John. 

I. ^ Thomas, under twenty-one in 1670, of Greenwich, d, 
before 1734, m. Martha — — , and had: 

1, 3 Nathaniel, b. June 14, 1707, d. at Greenwich, 
Conn., in 1777. His only heir at law was his 
brother, Thomas Studwell. 

2. 3 Thomas, b. March 31, 1709, d. at Greenwich, 
Conn., in 1783, m. Jemima , and had: 

I. "Xhomas, b. Sept. 20, 1732, d. in 1788, m. 
April 18, 1779, Sarah Palmer, and had: 
I. 5 Ezekiel, b. in 1780, d. Sept. 15, 1849, m. 
Patty (Martha) Mead, b. in 1781, d. Jan. 
8, 1844, and had: 

I. ^ JohnE.,b. ini8o6, d. May 12, 1862, 
m. Betsy Gregory, issue. 



66o Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



I. 

2. 



3- 



4- 



2. ^ Thomas, b. 

3. ^ Harvey, b. 

4. ^ Jeremiah, b. 

5. ^ EHza A., b. 

6. ^Roswell, bapt. Sept., 1831. 

7. ^ Silas H., bapt. Sept., 1831. 

2. '• Gabriel, b. 

3. '♦Joseph, b. , d. about 1784, m. Deborah, 
widow of Silas Lockwood, and had: 

1. s Richard, b. in 1773, d. Oct. 28, 1855, m. 
Elizabeth Devens, b. in 1773, d, in 1837, 
and had: 

^ Eliza, b. in 1796, d. Sept. 9, 1885. 
^ Allen, b. Oct. 21, 1799, d. July 9, 
1892, m. Nancy Lockwood, b. Aug. 
8, 1804, d. Feb. 17, 1879, issue. 
^ Carohne, b. Jan. 4, 1802, d. Jan. 20, 
1854, m. Nathaniel Briggs. 
^ Letitia, b. June 4, 1806, d. Nov. 14, 
1896, m. Jan. 17, 1830, Jeremiah 
Slater. 

5. ^ Sanford, b. in 1808, d. May 26, 1894, 
m. 1st, Sarah Holmes, d. Nov. 22, 
1875, m. 2d, Julia Smith, issue. 

6. ^Clarissa, b. Aug. 16, 1815, m. ist, 
Denison Lockwood, m. 2d, Daniel 
Slater. 

2. s Joseph, b. Feb. 10, 1777, d. at Bedford, 
N. Y., Jan. 15, 1865, m. ist, Nov. i, 1801, 
Sarah, dau. of Abel and Phebe R. Mead, 
b. Dec. 15, 1785, d. April 15, 1806, m. 2d 
April 24, 1807, Rebecca, dau. of Caleb 
Mead, and had by ist wife: 

1. ^ Edwin, b. Nov. 5, 1803. 
By 2d wife: 

2. ^Alexander, b. Feb. 20, 1808. 

3. * Augustus, b. June 8, 181 1. 

4. ^ John J., b. Dec. 2, 1812. 

5. ^Joseph, b. June 16, 1815. 

6. ^ Sarah M., b. Aug. 26, 1818. 

7. ^ George H., b. March 17, 1820. 

3. s Solomon, b. Oct. 9, 1780, d. June 20, 
1849, m. 1st, Nov. 3, 1805, Esther Theo- 
dosia Ritch, b. in 1781, d. Jan. 8, 1809, 
m. 2d, May 14, 1810, Fanny Smith, b, 
March 24, 1787, d. Dec. 14, 1842, and 
had by his ist wife: 
I. ^ Charles, Captain, b. Sept. 12, 1806, 

d. Dec. 31, 1868, m. Feb. 12, 1834, 



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66i 



Margaret Bunker, b. Jtdy i, 1809, d. 
in i860, issue. 

2. ^Joseph, b. Feb. 11, 1808, d. Oct. 8, 
1808. 

By 2d wife: 

3. ^ Delia Ann, b. Nov. i, 1811 



^ Henry F., Captain, b. July 22, 1813. 
^ Nelson, b. July 25, 1815. 
^ George O., b. Dec. 3, 1817. 
^Esther Jane, b. Feb. 11, 1820. 
^ Frances, b. March 9, 1822. 



9. ^ Solomon, b. Nov. 25, 1824 

10. ^ T. Nelson, b. April 22, 1827. 

11. ^ John Sanford, b. Feb. 18, 1830 
"Anthony, b. in 1738, d. Oct. 
Hannah Whelpley, and had: 



1824, m. 
in 1772, d. Nov. 21, 



2. 



3- 



5 Enoch, or Noah, b. 

1840, unm. 

s Anthony, b. , d. in 1838, m. Dia- 

dema Studwell, and had: * Luke, * Ralph, 

^ John, ^ Amy, ^ EHza, and ^ Fanny. 

s James, b. in 1780, d. in 1838, buried at 

Riverbank, Stamford, Conn., m. about 

1807, Mary Scofield, and had: 

I, 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 



^ Julia, b. in 1807. 
* Mary, b. in 1809. 



^ Calvin, b. June 3, 181 1. 

^ Jehiel, b. about 1814, d. unm. 

^ Jarvis, b. Sept. 23, 1820. 

^Samantha, b. in 1824, d. Jime 20, 
1898, unm. 
s Drake, b. , d. in 1838, m. Elizabeth 

Smith, and had: 
I. 



5. 5 Hannah, b 

6. s Betsy, b. 

5. ■* Henry, b. 

6. 4 Elizabeth, b. 

7. '♦Jemima, b. 

8. 4 Rachel, b. 

9. " Zillah, b. 
^ Joseph, b. 



^ John S., b. Nov. 20, 1807. 

^ Luther W., b. 

^ Edgar, b. Dec. 31, 1819. 

^William A., b. Nov. 8, 1820. 

^ Polly Ann., b. 

^ Eliza Ann, b. 

^ Smith, b. 

^ Alanson, b. 

, m. Elijah Scofield. 
m. J. Tucker. 



m. 



Jessup. 



d. in 1786, umn. 



662 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

4. ^ Daughter, who m. Samuel Willson. 

5. ^ Daughter, who m. William Palmer. 

2. ^ Joseph, under twenty-one in 1670, bought land in Rye, 
N. Y., in 1705, m. , and had: 

I. 3 Joseph, b. Jan. 21, 1703, d. May 9, 1793, m. 

Susannah , b. Aug. 10, 1704, d. Aug. 10, 1767, 

and had: 

1. " Mary, b. Aug. 10, 1728. 

2. ''Joseph, b. Feb. 4, 1731, d. Sept., 1823, m. 

Elizabeth , b. Feb., 1730, d. Aug., 1766, 

and had : 

1. s David, b. June 26, 1757. 

2. s Benjamin, b. Aug. 24, 1759. 

3. s Joanna, b. Feb., 1762. 

4. s Martha, b. Dec, 1764. 

3. '' Gilbert, b. in 1733, m. Mary , and had: 

1. s Carthagena, b. Nov. 20, 1756. 

2. s Rodger, b. Feb. 10, 1758. 

3. s Mary, b. June 24, 1764. 

4. 4 John, b. in 1735. 

5. ^Gatsy, b. Aug. 19, 1737, d. Dec. 19, 1738. 

6. '•James, b. April i, 1746, d. after 1805, m. 
Elizabeth Brundage, b. Nov. 22, 1753, and 
had: 

1. s Hester, b. Nov. 23, 1771, d. Aug. 30, 

1777- 

2. s Joseph, b. Nov. 2, 1773, d. Aug. 25, 1777. 

3. 5 Charity, b. Oct. 20, 1775, d. Sept. 5, 
1777. 

4. s Elethea, b. May 7, 1778, d. Aug. 13, 1796. 

5. s James, b. June 5, 1780. 

6. 5 John, b. June 2, 1782, d. Jan. 15, 1799. 

7. s Elizabeth, b. Sept. 8, 1784. 

8. 5 Albijean, b. April i, 1787. 

9. 5 Joseph, b. July 10, 1789. 

10. ^Susannah, b. Dec. 10, 1791. 

11. 5 Brundage, b. June 24, 1794. 

12. 5 Joanna, b. Jan. 25, 1799. 

3. ^ John, under twenty-one in 1670, witness at Rye, N. Y., 
in 17 1 3, probably no issue. 



SUTHERLAND FAMILY. 



'William Sutherland, who according to family tra- 
dition was bom in Scotland, bought land in the Town of 
Greenwich, Feb. 16, 1722, m. , and probably had: 

I. ^ Charles, b. about 1716, m. April i, 1736, Mary Stevens, 
and had: 



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663 



1. 3 Mary, b. May 30, 1738. 

2. ^ Margaret, b. March 2, 1742. 

3. 3 Ann, b. March 30, 1743. 

4. ^Joanna, b. March 29, 1745. 

5. 3 Helena, b. Feb. 15, 1748. 

6. 3 Charlotte, b. Feb. 27, 1752. 

* Roger, b. about 17 19, bought land in the Town of 
Greenwich, May 12, 1740, d. Nov. 16, 1798, m. ist, 

Abigail , d. July 25, 1757, m. 2d, April 20, 1758, 

Mary Scofield, and had by ist wife: 

1. 3 Roger, b. March 16, 1743, d. at Ballston, N. Y., 
m. Hannah, dau. of Lewis Barton. 

2. 3 William, b. March 16, 1745, d. in 1826, removed 
to Standford, Dutchess County, N. Y. 

3. 3 Samuel, b. Jan. 27, 1747, d. May 11, 1810, m. 
Rachel, dau. of Benjamin Purdy, b. June 19, 1745, 
d. March 2, 1829, removed to Manchester, Vt. and 
had: 

1. "Samuel, Jan. 19, 1768, d. Dec. 3, 1807. 

2. "Deborah, b. May 27, 1769. 

3. "Daniel, b. Sept. 6, 1770. 

4. "Rogers, b. Dec. 27, 1771, d. Dec. 26, 1851. 

5. " Reuben, b. Apl. 10, 1773, d. Jan. 2, 1853. 

6. "Jonah, b. May 15, 1774, d. Oct. 11, 1779. 

7. " Benjamin, b. Aug. 24, 1775, d. Oct. 25, 1852. 

8. "Rachel, b. Dec. 17, 1776. 

9. " Sarah, b. Aug. 20, 1778, d. Jan. 31, 1813. 

10. "Jonah, b. Dec. 20, 1779, d. July 10, 1840. 

11. " Silas, b. March 7, 1781, d. July 10, 1840. 

12. "Seth, b. Sept. 12, 1782, d. May 29, 1810. 

13. "William, b. Jan. 14, 1784, d. June 9, 1810. 

14. " Anor, b. Sept. 29, 1785. 

15. "Betsy, b. Nov. 16, 1788. 

16. "Polly, b. Sept. 8, 1790. 

4. 3 Joseph, b. Jan. 19, 1749, d. in 1800. 

5. 3 Hannah, b. March 15, 1751. 

6. 3 Stephen, b. April 5, 1753, m. Sarah, dau. of Thad- 
deus Mead, b. in 1760, and had: 



6 
4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

9 
10 



" Mead, b. 
Mead. 

" Ebenezer, b. 
" Mary, b. 
" Lewis, b. 
" Sarah, b. 
" Mary, b. 
" Hannah, b. 
" Betsy, b. 
" Anne, b. 
" Daniel, b. 



m. Clarissa, dau. of John 



d. young. 



, d. young. 



664 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



3- 



11. '' Daniel, b. , d. young. 

12. " Daniel, b. 

7. 3 Silas, Deacon, b. Feb. 5, 1755, d. at Greenwich, 
Conn., Dec. 10, 1846, m. ist, Deborah, dau. of 
John Banks, b. Nov. 30, 1752, d. April 8, 1781, m. 
2d, Sarah , b. in 1752, d. Oct. 9, 1840. 

By 2d wife: 

8. 3 Abigail, b. Sept. 9, 1759. 

9. 3 Mary, b. June 24, 1761. 
10. 3 Sarah, b. Jan. 26, 1763. 

* David, b. about 1721, removed to Dutchess County, 
N. Y., d. April 10, 1794, m. Judith Griffin, b. in 1724, d. 
April 13, 1790, and had: 

1. 3 WTilliam R., b. in 1745. 

2. 3 David, b. 

3. 3 Judith, b. 

4. 2 Joel, b. in 1752, 

5. 3 Hannah, b. , m. Isaac Smith. 

6. 3 Solomon, b. Jan., 1764, d. Sept. 10, 1802. 

7. 3 Anna, b. , m. Colonel James Talmadge. 

8. 3 Sarah, b. , m. Martin Vausburg. 

4. ^ William, b. about 1725, settled in North Castle, N. Y., 

d. there in 1761, m. Esther . His will, probated in 

N. Y. Co., N. Y., gives the name of his eldest son, 
3 Smith, and other children under age not named. 

5. ^ Joseph, b. about 1730. 

6. "^ John, b. July 3, 1735, removed to Dutchess County, 
N. Y., d. June 10, 1817, m. ist, Jan., 1755, Mary Ger- 
mond, b. Oct. 2, 1733, d. Sept. 3, 1789, m. 2d, Feb. 22, 
1790. Jerusha Stanley of Lee, Mass., b. July 23, 1756, d. 
Nov. 4, 1835, and had by ist wife: 
I. " ~ 
2. 
3- 
4- 
5. 
6. 

7- 
8. 

9- 



3 Peter, b. Feb. 20, 1756. 
3 James, b. Nov. 3, 1758. 
3 William, b. March 4, 1761. 
3 Justus, b. March 21, 1763, d. Aug. 10, 1780. 
3 John, b. June 18, 1765, d. Aug. 31, 1821. 
3 Mary, b. 
3 Isabella, b. 

3 Silas, b. Aug. 3, 1772, d. Feb. 12, 1836. 
3 Arick, b. April 27, 1774, d. Sept., 1838. 
By 2d wife: 

10. 3 Rachel, b. , m. Richard Sylvester. 

11. 3 Jerusha, b. , m. Melzar Colton. 

12. 3 Hannah, b. , m. Sylvester Hill. 

13. 3 Justus, b. 



Sutton Family 665 

SUTTON FAMILY. 

Reference, History of Westchester County, N. Y., published in 
1 88 1, by Rev. C. W. Bolton, 

There were several persons by the name of Sutton, who 
were early settlers in America, as follows: 

Ambrose Sutton, who settled at Hempstead, L. I., 
before 1657. 

George Sutton, who was of Scituate, Mass., in 1638. 

John Sutton, who was of Hingham, Mass., in 1638, 
came from Attleborough, County Norfolk, England. 

Joseph Sutton, who was of Boston, Mass., in 1659. 

Joseph Sutton, who was made freeman of Conn, in 
1658, probably then of Southampton, L. I. 

Lambert Sutton, who was of Charlestown,Mass.,in 1641. 

Simon Sutton, who was of Scituate, Mass., in 1638. 

WilHam Sutton, who was of Eastham, Mass., in 1666, 
removed to New Jersey. 

^ Joseph Sutton, second above referred to, a Quaker from 
somewhere, b. about 1630, was at Southampton, L. I., before 
1663, when he sold out, and removed to Hempstead, L. I., 
where he was town clerk in 1667, d. about 1695, m. , 

and had : 

1. ^ Joseph, b. about 1660, sold out in 17 14, and removed 
to Greenwich, Conn. 

2. ^ Robert, b. about 1662, d. at Hempstead, about 1726, 
m. Hannah , and had: 

1. ^ Robert, who remained at Hempstead. 

2. 3 Daniel, was located at Rye, N. Y., in 1724. 

3. ^ John, d. at Mamaroneck, N. Y., in 1753. 

^ Joseph, above referred to, b. about 1662, removed to Green- 
wich, Conn., where he d. about 1753, m. ist, Mary 
Sands, m. 2d, Susannah, widow of William Ogden, 
d. in 1769, and had by his ist wife: 
I. 3 Joseph, b. in 1690, bought land in the Town of 
Greenwich, Feb. 16, 1718, d, there in 1770, m. 
, and had : 

1. ''Joseph, b. about 1715, of North Castle, N. 
Y., m. Deborah Haight, and had several 
children. 

2. "Caleb, b. , of New Castle, N. Y., m. 
Abby Pell, and had: ^ Edward, s Andrew, 
s Pell, s Mary, ^ Sophia, s Solomon, s Henry, 
and s Caleb. 



666 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

3. '' William, b. , of Greenwich, d. in 1770, 
m. 1st, Dorcas, dau. of John Clapp, m. 2d, 
Oct. 14, 1767, Frances Nash, and had by ist 
wife: 

1. 5 Jesse, b. in 1756, d. June 19, 1836, m. 
Phebe , d. Aug. 6, 1839, and had: 

1. ^John, b. , m, March 15, 1826, 
Matilda Carpenter. 

2. ^ Dorcas, b. in 1785, d. Sept. 6, 1837. 

3. ^ Mary, b. in 1790, d. Oct. 30, 1850. 

4. ^ Phebe C, b. 

5. ^ Silas, b. , m. Phebe F., dau. of 
John and Elizabeth Carpenter. 

6. ^Thomas, b. 

7. ^ Anna, b. in 1792, d. March 15, 1865. 

2. s William, b. in 1758, d. Feb. 3, 1845, m. 
Oct. 17, 1787, Phebe, dau. of John and 
Phebe Clapp, b. in 1766, d. Feb. 5, 1842, 
and had : 

1. ^ Phebe C, b. in 1792. 

2. "^ Mary, b. in 1794, d. Dec. 18, 1867. 

3. ^William, b. in 1795, d. Jan. 9, 

1835- 

4. ^ Alice, b. in 1800. 

5. ^Thomas C, b. in 1801, d. Sept. 25, 

1848. 

6. <* Allen, b. in 1803, d. Oct. 18, 1885, 
m. Nov. 8, 1829, Jane Field. 

7. ^ EHzabeth C, b. in 1805, d. March 

7, 1884. 

3. 5 Alice, b. about 1760, m. March 19, 1783, 
Benjamin Cornell. 

4. '^ Abigail, b. , m. Benjamin Field. 

5. "* Mary, b. , m. Samuel Palmer. 

6. "^ James, b. , of Croton Valley, N. Y., d. in 
1760, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel and Han- 
nah (Merritt) Brown, b. in 1724, d. in 1813, 
after his d. she m. Thomas Thorn, and had: 

1. s Mary, b. 

2. s Jerusha, b. 

3. 5 jojianna, b. March 3, 1753, d. Dec. 16, 
1843, m. Oct. I, 1772, Thomas Thorn. 

4. 5 Amy, b. 

5. 5 Joseph, b. Nov. 11, 1755, d. Nov. 11, 
1813. 

6. ^ James, b. 

7. ''Richardson, b. July 11, 1732, of Cortlandt 
Manor, d. in 1776, m. Elizabeth, dau. of 
Moses Quimby, b. Feb. 28, 1736, and had: 



Sutton Family 



667 



3- 



s Esther, b. March 15, 1752, m. Joseph 

Totten. 

5 Moses, b. March 15, 1756, d. Dec. 24, 

1844, m. Rebecca, dau. of Isaac Under- 

hm, b. June 23, 1757, d. May 19, 1835, 

and had: 

I, ^ Sarah, b. , m. Nehemiah Mer- 

ritt. 

^Abraham, b. , m. Esther Car- 

penter. 

^ Hannah, b. April 4, 1787, m. Joseph 

Pierce. 

^ Isaac, b. , m. Sarah Underbill. 

^ Mary, b. , m. ist, David 

Merritt, m. 2d, 

<* Aaron, b. , d. July 10, 1845, m. 

ist, Anna Haight, m. 2d, Hannah 

Haight. 

^ Phebe, b. in 1795, d. Aug. 28, 1827, 

m. Aaron Quimby. 

^ Moses, b. Aug. 18, 1797, m. Rebecca 
Underbill. 

^ Abby Jane, b. Aug. 3, 1800, d. May 

24, 1882. 

s Daniel, b. May 22, 1758, of New Castle, 
N. Y., d. Aug. 2, 1840, m. Oct. 25, 1781, 
Phebe, dau. of Jonathan Husted, b. in 
1760, d. Aug. 20, 1847, and had: 
I. "Rachel, b. , m. Silas Birch. 



7- 



9- 



2. 
3- 
4- 
5- 

6. 



" Esther, b. 
" Elizabeth, b. 
" Jacob, b. 
" Deborah, b. 
Wheeler. 



m. John GrifTen. 
, m. Jesse Weeks. 

m. Wheeler. 

, m. Adonijah 



"Ann, b. April 10, 1803, d. March 6, 
1876, m. Joseph Birdsall. 

7. " Henry, b. 

8. " Louisa, b. 

4. 5 Deborah, b. June 17, 1760, d. Aug. 7, 
1838, m. Dec. 17, 1780, Zophar Griffen. 

5. s Robert, b. April 5, 1762, of New Castle, 
N. Y., d. Feb. 5, 1845, m. Sarah, dau. of 
Thomas Underbill, b. Aug. 10, 1771, d. 
July 12, 1840, and had: 

1. " Phebe, b. Sept. 20, 1794, d. May 17, 
1824. 

2. " Mary, b. March 18, 1797, d. June 
25, 1864, m. Benjamin Weeks. 

3. " Thomas, b. April 19, 1799. 



668 Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich 



4- 

5- 
6. 



9, 

10. 



^Deborah, b. April 16, 1801, d. Jan. 

2, 1832. 

^ Abby, b. Oct. 9, 1803. 

^ Guledma, b. Dec. 15, 1805, m. John 

Mott. 

^ Lydia, b. May 23, 1809. 

^Leonard, b. April 18, 1812. 

^ Jane, b. April 29, 1815. 

^Benjamin, b. March 26, 1818, d. 

March 11, 1824. 
5 Samuel, b. Jan. 21, 1764, of New Castle, 
N. Y., d. Sept. 2, 1837, m. ist, Sarah, 
dau. of Abraham Underbill, b. April 27, 
1768, d. May 5, 1809, m. 2d, Feb. 24, 
1814, Mary, dau. of William Mitchell, 
b. Aug. 21, 1770, d. Sept. 9, 1837, and 
had: 
I. ^Richard, b. , d. Nov. 23, 1841, 

m. Maria Wing. 

^ Joshua, b. , m. Phebe Burling. 

^ Caleb, b. , m. Rebecca Kings- 

land. 

^ Amy, b. June 28, 1797, d. April 10, 

1872, m. Isaiah Quimby. 

^ Abraham, b. 



2. 

3- 

4- 



5- 
6. 

7- 



m. Ann Burling. 



^ Daniel, b. 
^ Edmund, b. 
«j. ^ Stephen, b. 
9. ^ Sally, b. 
^ Phebe, b. Aug. 27, 1765. 
5 Mary, b. March 7, 1767. 
9. 5 jerusha, b. Sept. 2, 1768. 

10. s Abigail, b. Dec. 12, 1770. 

11. s Frances, b. Dec, 13, 1772. 
'' Jerusha, b. 
"• Sophia, b. , d. young. 

2. 3 Benjamin, b. about 1693, of North Castle, N. Y. 
d. in 1759, m. Eleanor , and had: 

1. -* Rachel, b. 

2. 4 Abigail, b. 

3. ^ John, b. 

4. '' Benjamin, b. 

5. " Reuben, b. 

6. " Charles, b. 

7. '' Joshua, b. 
4 Caleb, b. 
'' Mary, b. 
'* Daughter, who m. 



9 
10 
II 



'' Daughter, who m. 



Todd Family 669 

3. ^ Thomas, b. about 1695, bought land in the Town 
of Greenwich, Feb. 16, 1718, d. there in 1784, m. 
Sarah, dau. of Peter Brown, and had: 

1. ■* Thomas, b. about 1720. 

2. "^ Rachel, b. about 1722, m. Jan. 19, 1743, John 
Peter Bevelot. 

3. "* Nehemiah, b. about 1724. 

4. ''Daniel, b. about 1726. 

5. "• Benjamin, b. about 1728. 

6. 4 James, b. about 1731. 

TODD FAMILY. 

Reference, New England Genealogical Register, Volume 62, 

page 48. 

'Christopher Todd, born in England, about 1615, was 
one of the Governor Theophilus Eaton and Rev. John 
Davenport Company, that settled at New Haven, in the 
spring of 1638. This company was partly from the City of 
London, where Rev. John Davenport had been a celebrated 
preacher, and partly from the counties of York, Hertford, 
Kent, Surrey, and Essex, and sailed from London, England, 
in the ship Hector, which arrived at Boston on the twenty- 
sixth day of June, 1637. He signed the compact appertain- 
ing to the government of the New Haven Colony in 1639. 
In 1 66 1 he was the miller. His will mentions his mill, 
bakehouse, and lands. He married Grace , and had: 

1. ^ John, bapt. Dec. 2, 1642, d. Sept. 21, 1723. 

2. ^ SAMUEL, bapt. April 20, 1645, d. June i, 1706. 

3. ^ Mary, bapt. Sept. 16, 1647, m. Aug. 19, 1668, Isaac, 
Turner. 

4. ^ Grace, bapt. Dec. 15, 1650, m. Richard Mallock. 

5. * Michael, bapt. June 18, 1653, d. Sept. 10, 1744. 

6. * Mercy, bapt. Feb. 18, 1655, m. Samuel Bassett. 

^ SAMUEL, above referred to, bapt. April 20, 1645, d. June i , 
1706, m. Nov. 26, 1668, Mary, dau. of William Bradley, 
d. Sept. 16, 1724, and had: 

1. 5 Samuel, b. July i, 1671. 

2. ^Joseph, b. Feb. 4, 1673, d. March, 1678. 

3. 3 Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1674. 

4. 3 Sarah, b. Feb. 3, 1676, d. Nov. i, 1683. 

5. 3 Joseph, b. Jan. 29, 1678. 

6. 3 Hannah, b. Feb. 17, 1679, m. June 2, 1701, Seth 
Heaton. 

7. 3 JONAH, b. Dec. 16, 1684, d. Aug. 30, 1730. 



670 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

8. ^ Daniel, b. March 4, 1687, d. Jtdy 29, 1724. 

9. 3 Abigail, b. Jan. 27, 1690, m. May 28, 1712, John, 
Gilbert. 

10. 3 Mercy, b. Nov. 25, 1692. 

11. 3 James, b. June 10, 1696. 

3 JONAH, above referred to, b. Dec. 16, 1684, d. Aug. 30, 1730, 
m. April 20, 1709, Hannah Clark, and had: 
I. "^ Abraham, Rev., b. Feb. 18, 1710, graduate of Yale 
College, Class of 1727, pastor of the Second Con- 
gregational Church, Greenwich, Conn., from 1733, 
until his death, Dec. 17, 1772, m. Nov. 20, 1727, 
Hannah Dickerman, b. in 1709, d. July 21, 1777, 
and had: 

1. ^ Lois, b. May 13, 1732, m. ist, Obadiah Mead, 
b. Feb. 20, 1719, m. 2d, Stephen Holly. 

2. s Jonah, b. Aug. 12, 1734. 

3. 5 Abraham, b. Dec. 21, 1738. 

4. ^ Hannah, b. Nov. 18, i74i,m. Gideon Reynolds. 

5. s Mabel, b. Nov. 21, 1744, unm. in 1772. 

6. s Oliver, b. Oct. 25, 1748. 

7. s Maj-y^ b peb 10, 1751, m. Joel Waring, of 
Bedford, N. Y. 

WARING FAMILY. 

Reference, Waring Family History, published in 1898, 
by R. N. Waring. 

^Richard Waring, bom in England about 1643, came to 
Boston, Mass., in 1664, and settled in Brookhaven, L. I., 

where he was granted a parcel of land in 1644; m. , and 

had: 

1. ^ Richard, b. about 1670, remained on L. I. 

2. ^Edmund, b. in 1673, d. at Norwalk, Conn., Aug. 5, 
1749, m. in 1699, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Abigail 
Bouton of Norwalk, Conn., and had: 

1. 3 Edmund, b. Sept. 16, 1700, on L. I., removed to 
Norwalk. 

2. 3 Isaac, b. Jan. 13, 1702, on L. I., removed to Nor- 
walk. 

3. ^John, b. Dec. 21, 1704, at Norwalk, Conn., m. 
Katharine, dau. of David and Mary (Reed) Tuttle. 

4. 3 Solomon, b. April 24, 1707, at Norwalk, Conn. 

5. 3 Mary, b. Dec. 22, 1708. 

6. 3 Nathan, b. Feb. 6, 1711. 

7. 3 Jacob, b. Jan. 15, 1713, d. at Stamford, Conn., in 
1762, m. March, 1734, Mary, dau. of Nathan 
Selleck, and had: 



Waring Family 



671 



'•Samuel, b. Jan. 2, 1737, d. about 1805, m. 

Mary , and had : 

I. ^ Samuel, b. 



5 John, b. 
^ Sylvanus, b. 
s James, b. 
s Elizabeth, b. 
^ Hannah, b. 
s Mary, b. 
^ Sarah, b. 
^ Nancy, b. 



, m. Abraham Clock. 
, m. David Lyon, 
m. Joseph Washburn. 



, m. Marshall Washburn. 

2. '' Thaddeus, b. July 2, 1741, d. young. 

3. 4 Thaddeus, b. April 7, 1746. 

4. '♦ Simeon, b. Feb. 26, 1749, d. in 1777, unm. 

5. '♦Jacob, b. July 13, 1752, d. unm. 

6. '' Sarah, b. about 1755, m. Jonas Weed. 

8. ^Michael, b. July 16, 1715, d. at Stamford, Conn., 
in 1754, m. Elizabeth, dau. of James Scofield, d.in 
1758, and had: 

I. ''Henry, Captain, b. Oct. 6, 1744 an officer in 
the Revolutionary War, d. Nov. 6, 1830, m. 
Hannah, dau. of Samuel and Ann Ferris, d. 
April 3, 1823, and had: 

1. ■^ Henry, b. about 1771. 

2. 5 James, b. in 1773, d. May 19, 1847, m. 
Betsy, dau. of Daniel and Hannah Whit- 
ney, b. in 1786, d. May 13, 1855, and had: 
^ James D., ^Hannah M., "^Stephen H., 
^ Henry, ^ Susan, <* Mary W., <* Ann M., 
^ Selleck, ^ Sarah E., ^ Isaac, and "^Joseph 
F. 

3. s Stephen, b. in 1775, d. April 12, 1840, 

m. Mary , b. in 1777, d. May 23, 

1864, and had no children. 

4. 5 Betsy, b. , m. Jonathan Ferris. 

9. ■^ Eliakim, b. July 8, 1717, removed to Troy, N. Y., 
m. Ann, dau. of John Reed, and had: 

1. '' Zaccheus, b. Oct. 19, 1741. 

2. ''Jesse, b. June 14, 1744, and others. 

10. 3 Elizabeth, b. March 8, 1720, m. Edward Nash. 

11. 3 Abigail, b. April 19, 1723, m. Samuel Richards. 

12. ■^ Hannah, b. Sept. 7, 1725, m. James Richards. 

3. ^ John, b. about 1675, probably d. young. 

4. ^ Michael, b. about 1678, d. at Stamford, Conn., Feb. 16, 
1726, m. , and had: 

I. ^Jonathan, b. Jan. 21, 1716, on L. I., d. at Stam- 
ford, Conn., in 1805, m. Feb. 24, 1735, at Norwalk, 
Conn., Mary Richards, and had: 
I. ''James, b. March 20, 1736, d. young. 



672 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 



5- 
6. 



7- 



4 Michael, b. June 7, 1738, d. in 1775, at Green- 
wich, Conn., m. , and had: 

I. ^ Henry, under twenty- one in 1775, and 
perhaps others of age. 

''Jonathan, b. Aug. 15, 1740, m. Rachel , 

and had : 

1. s Daniel, b. Jan. 10, 1761. 

2. s Scudder, b. Feb. 17, 1763. 

3. 5 Jonathan, b. Feb. 25, 1765. 

4. s Deborah, b. July 6, 1767. 

5. 5 Cadwallader, b. Sept. 22, 1769. 

6. s Zarbudburrel, b. Sept. 21, 1771. 

7. s Tryphosa, b. Oct. 20, 1774. 

8. 5 Wells, b. Nov. 24, 1776. 
4 Samuel, b. Jan. 2, 1743, m. Feb. 23, 1764, 
Ruth Scofield, and had : 
I. 5 jjezron, b. May 17, 1766, and perhaps 

others. 
■^ Rebecca, b. Oct. 25, 1744. 
''Joel, b. Feb. 18, 1746, d. in 1784, m. , 

and had: 

I. 5 Joel, b. , and perhaps others. 
''Jesse, b. Aug. 31, 1748, d. in 1791, m. ist, 
Nov. 5, 1772, Ruth Weed, d. Oct. 23, 1773, m. 
2d, Jan. 5, 1775, Jemima Lounsbury, and had: 

1. ^ Prudence, b. Dec. 2, 1775. 

2. s Sarah, b. Feb. 11, 1778. 

3. ^William, b. Oct. 6, 1779. 

4. s Charles, b. July 23, 1782. 

5. s Nancy, b. Aug. 15, 1784. 

6. s Henry, b. March 17, 1786. 

7. s^nn, b. July 15, 1788. 

8. ''Elizabeth, b. April 14, 1751. 

9. ''Abraham, b. Sept. 25, 1753. 

10. '' Mary, b. April 20, 1755. 

11. " Noah, b. July 29, 1757, d. in 1799. 

12. ''James, b. April 23, 1759. 

13. "Abigail, b. Feb. 25, 1761. 

2. 3 Scudder, b. Aug. 23, 1718, d. in 1778, m. Dec. 4, 
1746, Martha Waterbury, and had: 

1. '' Ebenezer, b, Nov. 4, 1747, d. yoimg. 

2. '' Sarah, b. Oct. 21, 1749, d. Nov. 7,1749. 

3. " Joseph, b. Jan. 26, 1753. 

4. " Ebenezer, b. Sept. 21, 1754. 

3. 3 Michael, b. Feb. 17, 1720, d. Oct. 23, 1756, m. 

May 17, 1745, Sarah Holly, after he d. she m. 

Wicks, and had : 

I. ''Nathaniel, b. June 13, 1746, d. before 1766, 
unm. 



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2. "John, b. May 9, 1748, d. Nov. 6, 1775, m. 
Oct. II, 1770, Mary Ayres, and had: 

1. s Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 1772. 

2. ^ John, b. May 2, 1773. 
5. s jared, b. Jan. 14, 1775. 

3. "Amos, b. April 29, 1750. 

4. " Sarah, b. June 7, 1752. 

5. " Michael, b. April 5, 1755. 
3 Sarah, b. Feb. 12, 1722. 
^Rebecca, b. Sept. 11, 1724. 



WATERBURY FAMILY. 

'John Waterbury, bom at Sudbury, County Suffolk, 
England, about 1620, came to America about 1641; first 
settled at Watertown, Mass., sold out in 1646, and removed 
to Stamford, Conn., where he was granted a parcel of land in-V 
1650; died at Stamford, July 31, 1658; married Rose Lock- 
wood, after his death she married. May 11, 1659, Joseph 
Gamsey, and had : 

1. ^ Rachel, b. about 1641, m. Dec. 3, 1659, John Holmes. 

2. ^ Sarah, b. about 1643, m. at Stamford, May 10, 1666, 
Zachariah Dibble, she m. 2d, Nicholas Webster. 

3. ^ John, b. at Stamford, Conn., about 1646, d. Nov. 28, 
1688, m. Mary , and had: 

1. 3 Mary, b. March 20, 1679, d. May 12, 1710, m. 
Feb. 4, 1700, Jonathan Sloson, b. July 25, 1670. 

2. 3 John, Lieut., b. Oct. 30, 1682, d. May 28, 1744, 
m. 1st, Jan. 16, 1707, Sarah, dau. of Stephen 
Holmes, d. Aug. i, 1709, m. 2d, Nov. 30, 17 10, 
Hannah, dau. of Nathaniel Cross, b. July 23, 1687, 
d. March 2, 1756, and had: 

1. "John, b. Dec. 17, 1707, d. Jan. 28, 1708. 

2. "Sarah, b. July 26, 1709, d. Nov. 25, 171-. 

3. "John, b. Dec. 5, 171 1, m. Sept. 22, 1737, 
Hannah Ferris, and had: 

1. s Abigail, b. Dec. 8, 1738. 

2. 5 Hannah, b. Aug. 25, 1741. 

3. 5 Sarah, b. Nov. 29, 1743. 

4. s Hannah, b. March 22, 1746. - -■ 

5. s Mary, b. Sept. 8, 1749. 

6. 5 Bethia, b. Sept. 26, 1752. 

7. s John, b. April i, 1754. 

8. s Martha, b. March 11, 1756. 

4. 4 Nathaniel, b. May 21, I7i7,m. Dec. 29, 1743, 
Rebecca Holly, and had: 

I. s Abigail, b. Nov. 15, 1744, d. Oct. 29, 
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2. 5 Abigail, b. April 15, 1746. 

3. 5 John, b. March 10, 1749. - 

4. 5 Rebecca, b. Jan. 22, 1752. 

5. 5 Elizabeth, b. Sept. 29, 1754. 

6. ^ Nathaniel, b. Dec. 19, 1756. 

3. 3 David, b. Jan. 24, 1684, d. June 14, 1710, m. 
April 10, 1707, Waitstill Green, d. Jidy 5, 1730, 
after his d. she m., June 4, 1713, Stephen Bishop, 
and had : 

1. ''David, b. in 1708, m. Dec. 22, 1730, Mary 
Bouton, and had: 

1. s Mary, b. Sept. 5, 1731. 

2. 5 Hannah, b. Feb. 4, 1733. 

3. s David, b. Dec. 16, 1735. 

4. ^ Gideon, b. Dec. 26, 1737. 

5. s Mercy, b. Feb. 15, 1739. 

6. s Daniel, b. Feb. 15, 1741. 

7. 5 Abigail, b. May 14, 1743. 

8. s prmjence, b. Feb. 12, I75[. 

2. " Mary, b. in 1710. 

4. 3 Thomas, b. May 12, 1687, d. July 18, 1758, m. ist, 
April 26, 1 7 16, Elizabeth, dau. of Elisha and 
Rebecca (Bishop) Holly, b. June 28, 1693, d. Nov. 
2, 1719, m. 2d, Aug. 4, 1730, Elizabeth, widow of 
Israel Boardman, and dau. of Jacob Gibbs, d. 
Sept. 18, 1730, m. 3d, in 1731, Hannah, widow of 
Joseph Hoyt, and dau. of Samuel Finch, d. in 
1762, and had by ist wife: 

1. 'I Elizabeth, b. Oct. 21, 1717, m. Hait. 

2. 'I Thomas, b. in 1719, m. April 21, 1752, Mary 
Brown, and had: 

1. sMary, b. July 14, 1753. 

2. s James, b. Nov. 21, 1754. 

3. s William, b. Dec. 29, 1756. 

4. s Thomas, b. Feb. 26, 1759. 

5. s Elizabeth, b. Jan. 3, 1761. 
By 3d wife : 

3. ''Samuel, b. Nov. 18, 1732. 

4. ''Hannah, b. Feb. 26, 1734, d. July 22, 1758, 
unm. 

5. ''Abigail, b. July 29, 1737, m. Selleck Holly. 

6. ''Jacob, b. Oct. 26, 1741. 

7. ''John, b. Sept. 20, 1744. 

^Jonathan, b. at Stamford, Conn., about 1648, d. Jan. 
14, 1702, m. about 1676, Eunice , and had: 

1. 3 Sarah, b. Aug. 15, 1677, m. May 10, 1700, Ben- 
jamin Mead, b. May, 1666, d. Feb. 27, 1746. 

2. 3 Eunice, b. Oct. 7, 1679, d. May 24, 1710, m. Dec. 
II, 1707, Richard Higginbotham, d. Nov. 22, 1731. 



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3- ^ Rose, b. Jan. 21, 1681, d. before 1702, unm. 
4. ^ Rachel, b. Aug. 26, 1684, d. before 1702, unm. 
5- ^Jonathan, b. Feb. 9, 1686, d. May 30, 1765, m. 
Jan. 21, 1718, Sarah, dau. of Jonathan Mead of 
Greenwich, Conn., b. Oct. 11, 169 1, and had: 
I. ^Jonathan, b. Nov. 5, 1720, m. May 6, 1752, 
Abigail Whiting, d. Oct. 16, 1760, m. 2d, Jan. 
28, 1762, Eunice Bell, and had by ist wife: 

1. 5 Abigail, b. Aug. 21, 1753. 

2. ^Sarah, b. April 22, 1755, d. Aug. 26, 1760. 

3. ^Chloe, b. Jan. 16, 1757. 

4. ^Elizabeth, b. Oct. 11, 1758. 

5. ^Jonathan, b. Aug. 17, 1760. 
By 2d wife: None on records. 

2. 4josiah, b. March 12, 1722, d. before 176=5, 
unm. 

3. " Isaac, b. in 1723. 

4. " Nathaniel, b. April 26, 1724. 
4 Sarah, b. about 1726, m. Gideon Weed. 
4 Martha, b. about 1728, m. Scudder Waring. 
"Abigail, b. July 18, 1730, m. Israel Weed. 
"• Eunice, b. about 1733. 

' Abigail, b. July I, 1688, d. Oct. 7, 1729, m. Jan. 29, 
1707, John Newman. ^ 
^Joseph, b. Jan. 26, 1691, d. in 1751, m. ist, Han- 
nah , m. 2d, at Norwalk, Conn., March 12, 

1719, Hannah, dau. of Aaron and Hannah Foun- 
tain, and had by ist wife: 

1. " Hannah, b. Jan. 31, 1707, d. young. 
By 2d wife: 

2. "Eujjjce, b. April 20, 1720. 
4 Joseph, b. Jan. 21, 1723, d. young. 
"Samuel, b. Jan. 31, 1725. 
" Hannah, b. Jan. 31, 1727. 
"Joseph, b. Oct. 10, 1728. 
"Ruth, b. May 8, 1731. 
"Ezra, b. Feb. 7, 1733. 

9. "Hezekiah, b. Feb. 15, 1735. 
10. " Gideon, b. 

^Benjamin, b. Sept. 12, 1694, m. Jan. 12, 1727, 
Mary, dau. of Jonathan Mead of Greenwich 
Conn., b. May 22, 1704, and had: 

1. "Rachel, b. Nov. 10, 1727. 

2. " Benjamin, b. Feb. 26, 1729. 

3. "Josiah, b. July 31, 1732, m. Nov. 22, 1759, 
Sarah Husted, and had : 

1. ^Samuel, b. Aug. 30, 1760. 

2. s Enos, b. June 19, 1762. 

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4. s William, b. Nov. 24, 1766. 

5. s Abigail, b. May 27, 1769. 

6. 5 Mary, b. July 15, 1771. 

7. s jared, b. Nov. 4, 1778, d. before 1812, at 
Poundridge, N. Y., m. Sarah Wicks, b. at 
Huntington, L. I., after his d. she m. 
Thomas Potts, and had: 

1. ^ Phineas, b. March 4, 1798. 

2. ^ Elmira, b. Dec. 24, 1800. 

3. ^ Samuel, b. April 23, 1803. 

4. ^ Ebenezer, b. April 9, 1805. 

4. "I James, b. Dec. 7, 1734. 

5. ''Ebenezer, b. Feb. 25, 1736. 

6. "> Mary, b. Jan. 5, 1740. 

7. ^ Bethia, b. May 20, 1744. 

^ David, Lieut., b. at Stamford, Conn., about 1650, d. 
Nov. 20, 1706, served in King Philip's War, m. ist, 
Hannah, dau. of William Newman, b. Oct. 29, 1657, m. 
2d, Aug. II, 1698, Sarah Weed, after his d. she m. 
Nathaniel Pond, and had: 

I. 3 John, b. Jan. 25, 1682, d. Jan. 20, 1736, m. Dec. 4, 
1 7 10, Susannah Newkirk, and had: 

1. '♦Hannah, b. April i, 1712. 

2. '♦Susannah, b. Dec. 17, 1714. 

3. '' John, b. Dec. 21, 171 8, m. Feb. I, 1750, Mary 
Slason, and had: 

1. ^ John, b. Feb. 20, 1753. 

2. s j)avid, b. April 13, 1755. 

3. s Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1758. 

4. s Peter, b. April 26, 1760. 

5. s Epenetus, b. Aug. i, 1762. 

6. s Isaac, b. Aug. 4, 1764. 

7. 5 Elizabeth, b. Jan. i, 1768. 

4. '• Sarah, b. Feb. 23, 1720. 

5. '* David, General, b. Feb. 12, 1722, an officer in 
the Revolutionary War, d. June 29, 1801, m. 
May 15, 1758, Mary Maltby, b. in 1733, d. 
Nov. 7, 1810, and had: 

1. ^ William, b. Oct. 10, 1766. 

2. 5 Molly, b. Jan. i, 1769, d. Sept. 24 1795, 
unm. 

6. '' Sarah, b. about 1724. 

7. " Peter, b. Nov. 8, 1726. 

8. ''Isaac, b. about 1728, m. Feb, 4, 1751, at 
Bedford, N. Y., Thankful Scofield, and had: 

1. ^ John, b. May 30, 1752. 

2. 5 Peter, b. May 29, 1754. 

3. ^ Sarah, b. Sept. 30, 1756. 

4. 5 Sylvanus, b. May 17, 1758. 



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5. s David, b. March 8, 1760. 

6. s Susannah, b. March 14, 1762. 

7. s Elizabeth, b. March 30, 1764. 

8. s Catee, b. March 12, 1766. 

9. 5 Isaac, b. March 2, 1769. 

10. s Molly, b. July 24, 1771. 

11. s Hannah, b. July 24, 1771. 

12. 5 Sqi;iij-e^ ]3_ Sept. i, 1774. 
9. ''Elizabeth, b. about 1730. 

ID. '' Mary, b. about 1732. 

II. '' Sylvanus, b. Sept. 24, 1735. 

2. 3 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 19, 1684, m. June i, 1702, Isaac 
Howe. 

3. 3 Sarah, b. Jan. 10, 1685, m. Weed. 

By 2d wife : 

4. 3 Ruth, b. June 3, 1699. 

5. •'David, b. Nov. 9, 1701, m. Jan. 11, 1721, Mary 
Sturges, and had: 

1. '' Ebenezer, b. Nov. 17, 1722. 

2. " Mary, b. Oct. 15, 1725. 

3. ^ David, b. May 14, 1728. 

4. ''Nathan, b. June 11, 1730. 

5. '' Sarah, b. April 12, 1732. 

6. '» Ruth, b. April 14, 1735. 

7. '' Mercy, b. April 23, 1737. 

6. -^ Ebenezer, b. March 12, 1704, d. March 7, 1721, 
unm. 

7. ^ Mercy, b. Jan. 27, 1706. 



WEBB FAMILY. 



^Richard Webb, bom in County Dorset, England, May 
5, 1580; came to Cambridge, Mass., in 1626; removed to 
Boston, where he was made a freeman in 1632; removed to 
Hartford, Conn., in 1635; removed to Stratford, Conn., and 
from thence to Norwalk, Conn., where he died July, 1665; 
m. 1st, May, 1610, Grace, dau. of John Wilson, m. 2d, at 
Norwalk, Conn., Elizabeth Gregory, who survived him, and 
died in 1 680 ; his children according to best authorities were : 

1. ^ Daughter, who m. Thomas Butler. 

2. ^ Richard, b. in 1623, settled in Stamford, Conn., in 

1654, d. there March 15, 1676, m. Margery , and 

had: 

1. 3 Richard, b. about 1648. 

2. 3 Sarah, b. about 1650, m. John Marshall. 

3. 3 John, b. about 1652, d. Jan. i, 1656. 



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4. 3 Joseph, b. about 1654, d. in 1684, m. Nov. 8, 1672, 
Hannah Scofield, and had : 

1. '•Joseph, Lieut., b. Jan. 5, 1674, d. Nov. 15, 
1743, m. Feb. 23, 1698, Mary Hait, b. in 1673, 
d. Feb. 24, 1750, and had: 

1. 5 Joseph, b. Jan. 26, 1701. 

2. s Ebenezer, b. March 7, 1704, d. April 16, 
1704. 

3. s Benjamin, b. Aug. 24, 1705. 

4. 5 John, b. July 28, 1707. 

5. s Sarah, b. May 9, 1709, m. Hezekiah 
Reynolds. 

6. s Abigail, b. June 10, 171 1. 

7. s Epenetus, b. July 16, 1713. 

8. s Mary, b. July 28, 1715, m. Nathaniel 
Mead. 

2. '^ Mary, b. April 14, 1677. 

3. -^ Hannah, b. July 9, 1679. 

4. "Sarah, b. Oct. 16, 1681. 

5. " Margery, b. Oct. 4, 1683. 

5. 3 Mary, b. about 1656, d. young. 

6. 3 Caleb, b. about 1658, d. May 24, 1704, m. , 
and had: 

I. '' Child, b. , d. May 14, 1704, and perhaps 

others. 

7. ^Joshua, b. about 1660, d. at Bedford, N. Y., in 

1694, m. Elizabeth , after he d. she m. 

Simkins, and had: 

1. ■* Richard, b. 

2. "Eben, b. 

3. 4 John, b. 

4. ^ Susannah, b. 

8. ^ Samuel, b. March 30, 1662, m. , and had: 

1. ■* Waitstill, b. Jan. 6, 1690. 

2. 4 Samuel, b. Nov. 6, 1692. 

3. ''Mercy, b. April 11, 1694. 

4. '' Charles, b. March 12, 1697, d. April 19, 1730, 
m. May 23, 1723, Mary Smith, after his d. she 
m. Daniel Lockwood, and had: 

1. 5 Charles, b. Feb. 13, 1724. 

2. s Hannah, b. Nov. 30, 1725. 

3. s Mary, b. Dec. 26, 1727. 

4. 5 Samuel, b. June 5, 1730. 

5. '^ Mary, b. Jan. 7, 1699. 

6. '' Nathaniel, b. Nov. 6, 1700, d. in 1777, m. ist, 
April 20, 1724, Sarah Webster, d. Dec. 19, 
1725, m. 2d, June 23, 1726, Sarah Weed, d. 
June 30, 1731, m. 3d, Nov. 24, 1731, Deborah 
Lockwood, and had by ist wife: 



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1. 5 Sarah, b. Dec. 12, 1725, m. Louns- 

bury. 

By 26. wife: 

2. 5 Deborah, b. July 7, 1727, m. Smith. 

3. s Rachel, b. Nov. 8, 1729, d. June 10, 1736. 
By 3d wife: 

4. s jjannah, b. June 17, 1733, m. 

Brown. 

5. s Nathaniel, b. Feb. 3, 1735. 

6. s Rachel, b. Nov. 11, 1740, m. 

Waring. 

7. s^aitstill, b. Jan. 6, 1743, d. Nov. 17, 

1743- 

8. s Samuel, b. Feb. 20, 1745, d. before 1777, 
unm. 



WEED FAMILY. 

^ Jonas Weed, bom in England, about 1605, came to 
America in the fleet with Sir Richard Saltonstall, and Gover- 
nor Winthrop in 1630, and first settled in Watertown, Mass., 
where he was made a freeman, May 18, 1631; removed to 
Wethersfield, Conn., in 1635; removed ito Stamford, Conn., 

in 1 641, where he died in 1676; married Mary ■ , died in 

1690, and had: ^ John, ^ Daniel, ^ Jonas, ^ Mary, ^ Dorcas, 
^ Samuel, ^ Elizabeth, " Sarah, and ^ Hannah. 

I. ^ John, b. about 1638, d. in 1690, m. before 1666, Joanna, 
dau. of Richard Westcott, and had: 
I. 3 jQjTLas, shoemaker, b. Feb. i, 1667, d. Nov. 18, 
1706, m. Mary , and had: 

1. ''John, b. Nov. 19, 1698. 

2. 4 Miles, b. Feb. 24, 1701, m. Dec. 19, 1723, 
Joanna Weed, and had : 

1. 5 Miles, b. April 27, 1725, d. young. 

2. 5 Joanna, b. Sept. i, 1727. 

3. s Jonas, b. Nov. 20, 1730. 

4. sEzra, b. May 4, 1734, d. June 10, 1734. 

5. s Jacob, b. Jan. 8, 1736. 

6. 5 Mary, b. Feb. 21, 1740. 

7. s Sarah, b. July 28, 1742. 

8. 5 Miles, b. April 6, 1745. 

3. " Sarah, b. March 10, 1703. 

4. 4 Nathan, b. May 20, 1705, d. Nov. 11, 1748, 
m. May 28, 1730, Isabel Youngs, and had: 

1. 5 Nathan, b. Junes, 1 731, d. July 24, I73i- 

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3. 5 Youngs, b. June 3, 1726. 

4. 5 Rebecca, b. June 6, 1740. 

5. s Ebenezer, b. April 20, 1743. 

6. s Samuel, b. Aug. 31, 1745. 

7. s James, b. July 22, 1748, d. Oct. 19, 1748. 

2. 2 Daniel, b. Feb. 11, 1669, m. Sept. 23, 1697, Mary 
Webb, and had: 

1. '•Joseph, b. Aug. 18, 1698. 

2. '» David, b. Aug. 19, 1700, d. May 12, 1730 m. 
May 31, 1723, Sarah Pettit, d. July 19, 1729, 
and had : 

1. ^ Sarah, b. Aug. 8, 1724. 

2. 5 Mary, b. Feb. 6, 1726. 

3. ''Joanna, b. Nov. 8, 1702, m. Dec. 19, 1723, 
Miles Weed, see above. 

4. ^ Daniel, b. May 14, 1705. 

5. ''Ebenezer, b. March 19, 1708. 

6. ''Sarah, b. Jan. 6, 1710. 

7. ''Samuel, b. July 12, 1712. 

3. ^ John, b. about 1672. 

4. 3 Samuel, b. about 1675, d. May 5, 1734, m. April 
17, 1701, Abigail Scofield, d. Dec. 18, 171 1. 

5. ^ Joseph, b. in 1678. 

6. 3 Isaac, b. in 1681, d. April 30, 1691. 

7. ^ Mary, b. in 1684, d. April 21, 1691. 

8. ^ Hannah, b. in 1687, d. March 22, 1691. 

' Daniel, b. about 1640, d. Nov. 29, 1697, m. Ruth , 

after his d. shem., July 25, 1705, Peter Ferris, and later 
m., Jan. 29, 1708, John Clapp, and had: 

1. 3 Sarah, b. Nov. 18, 1675, m., Aug. 11, 1698, David 
Waterbury, after his d. she m. Nathaniel Pond. 

2. ^Abraham, b. Aug. 18, 1680, d. Dec. 26, 1711, m. 
April II, 1706, Susannah Bell, b. Dec. 25, 1686, 
after his d. she m. May 26, 1715, Thomas Tal- 
madge, and had : 

I. ■* Abraham, b. April 27, 1707, d. Dec. 26, 1757, 
m. Jan. 11, 1728, Naomi Pond, b. March 22, 
1705, d. May 20, 1782, and had: 

1. ^Abraham, b. Nov. i, 1728, d. Feb. 3, 
1799, issue. 

2. s Bartholomew, b. Aug. 4, 1730. 

3. 5 Enos, b. March 14, 1732. 

4. 5 Nathaniel, b. Jan. 20, 1734. 

5. ^ Hannah, b. May 26, 1737. 

6. 5 Naomi, b. March 24, 1739. 

7. s Thankful, b. March 6, 1743, d. Nov. 15, 

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8. s Peter, b. March 29, 1745. 

9. 5 Rachel, b. Feb. 15, 1747. 



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10. 5 Jacob, b. 

11. s Elizabeth, b. 

2. 4 Ruth, b. Aug. 15, 1709. 

3. ''Susannah, b. Aug. 15, 1709, d. Oct. 10, 1709. 

^ Daniel, b. March 19, 1685, m. Elizabeth , and 

had: 

1. '• Daniel, b. Nov. 12, 1709. 

2. '•Elizabeth, b. Feb. 16, 1712. 

3. ^ Hezekiah, b. Sept., 1715. 

4. ''Rebecca, b. Oct., 1717. 

5. '' Deborah, b. May 2, 1724. 

6. " Nehemiah, b. June 8, 1728. 

^ Ebenezer, b. Oct. 22, 1692, m., May 28, 1713, 
Mary Bell, b. Sept. 29, 1689, and had: 

1. "Mary, b. March 12, 1714. 

2. ''Ebenezer, b. Nov. 15, 1716. 

3. ''Sarah, b. Sept. 15, 1720. 

4. "Abigail, b. Nov. 5, 1728. 

^ Nathaniel, b. Oct. 22, 1696, m. Mary , and 

had: 

I. ''Ann, b. Jan. 28, 1722. 

"Josiah, b. July 19, 1723. 

'• Nathan, b. Jan. i, 1725. 



"John, b. July 12, 1727, d. Dec. 11, 1729. 

" Mary, b. Sept. 17, 1730, d. Aug. 4, 1734. 

"John, b. Nov. 8, 1732. 
3. * Jonas, b. about 1642, d. Nov. 19, 1704, m. Nov. 16, 
1 67-, Bethia, dau. of John Holly, d. Dec. 24, 1713, and 
had: 

I. ^ Jonas, b. July 26, 1678, m. Jan. 20, 1703, Sarah 
Waterbury, and had: 
I. "Jonas, b. Dec. 20, 1704. 

"Elnathan, b. March 12, 1706, d. May 18, 

1706. 

" David, b. April 20, 1707. 

"Charles, b. Jan. 10, 1711. 

" Epenetus, b. Sept. 20, 1712. 

" Sylvanus, b. Nov., 1713. 

" Gideon, b. Oct. 30, 1716. 

" Sarah, b. Dec. 21, 1718, d. Jan. 16, 1719. 

"Thankful, b. Jan. 12, 1720. 

" Hezekiah, b. May 11, 1722. 
^Benjamin, b. April 5, 1681, m. Feb. 27, 1706, 
Mary, dau. of Thomas Penoyer, b. Nov. 22, 1688, 
d. Sept. 27, 1732, and had: 

1. "Benjamin, b. Dec. 16, 1707. 

2. "Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1710. 

3. "Sarah, b. Jan. 11, 1712, 

4. " Lydia, b. Oct. 4, 1714. 



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4 Samuel, b. April 13, 1717. 



6. ''Bethia, b. March i, 1720, d. Dec. 16, 1726. 

7. 4 Amos, b. July 15, 1722. 

8. '» Israel, b. April 12, 1725. 

9. 4 Mary, b. July 25, 1731. 
10. 'I Isaac, b. Sept. 10, 1732. 

3. ^Jonathan, b. April 15, 1684, m. Mary , and 

had: 

1. ''Josiah, b. Oct. 14, 1716. 

2. 4 Silas, b. July 11, 17 19. 

3. ^ Mary, b. March 23, 1722. 

4. ''Jonas, b. Oct. 4, 1727, and perhaps others. 

4. 3 Abigail, b. April 5, 1695. 

4. ^ Mary, b. , m. George Abbott. 

5. ^ Dorcas, b. , m. James Wright. 

6. ^ Samuel, b. about 1651, removed to Danbury, Conn., d. 
in 1708, m. Mary , and had: 

1. ^ Jacob, twenty-one in 1708. 

2. 3 Samuel, under twenty-one in 1708. 

3. ^ Jonas, under twenty-one in 1708. 

4. 3 Elizabeth, under twenty-one in 1708, and perhaps 
others. 

7. == Elizabeth, b. 

8. ^ Sarah, b. 

9. ^ Hannah, b. , m. Benjamin Hoyt. 

WHITE FAMILY. 

The White Family, by Henry Kirk White, Detroit, Mich- 
igan, published in 1906, contains a genealogy of the family 
in this vicinity, who are descendants of Richard White of 
Huntington, Long Island. 

WILCOX FAMILY. 

A genealogy of the Wilcox family is now being compiled 
by Charles G. Finney Wilcox, A.M., L.M., H.M.D. 

WILLSON FAMILY. 

The Willson family were early settlers in the Town of 
Fairfield, Conn., and among the number were: 

Anthony Willson, who died at Fairfield in 1662, married 
1st, Rachel, widow of John Bnmdage of Wethersfield, by 
whom he had no children, married 2d, Sarah, daughter of 
John Jones, and widow of Buckley, died in 1683, by 



Willson Family 683 

whom he had a daughter, Sarah, under age in 1662. She 
married Eleazer Brown of New Haven. 

Ann Wilson, sister of Anthony Willson. 

Edward Willson, cousin of Anthony Willson, died in 
1684, leaving issue. 

John Willson, brother of Anthony Willson, died before 
1688, leaving issue. 

Samuel Willson, brother of Anthony Willson, removed 
to the City of New York, where he died in 1688, married 

Elizabeth , and had: Joseph, and Ebenezer. In his 

will he mentions Samuel Willson, one of the sons of his 
brother, John Willson of Fairfield, deceased. 

Samuel Willson, cousin of Anthony Willson, married, 
before 1686, Phebe, daughter of Joseph Middlebrook. 

Samuel Willson was at New Haven in 1643, sold out in 
1648, perhaps the brother of Anthony Willson, above referred 
to. 

Thomas Willson, cousin of Anthony Willson, died in 
1 69 1, leaving issue. 

^ JOHN WILLSON, abovc referred to, died before 1688, m. , 

and had: 

1. ^ Samuel, b. about 1648, no further record. 

2. ^ John, b. about 1650, d. at Rye, N. Y., about 1725, m. 
Mary, dau. of Thomas and Martha (Winthrop) Lyon, 
b. Aug., 1649, d. before 1713; were located in the Town 
of Greenwich in 169 1, when they discharged John Lyon, 
eldest son of Thomas Lyon, from any legacies they 
might have by the will of Thomas Lyon, deceased; 
were located in the Town of Rye, N. Y., in 1703; and 
had: 

I. ^ Samuel, b. about 1678; name first appears on the 
land records of the Town of Rye, N. Y., in 17 13; 
deeded land in the Town of Greenwich, April i, 
1724, by John Willson of Rye; one of the owners of 
the ferry that ran between Rye and Oyster Bay; d. 
in 175 1 ; m. Susannah, dau. of Joseph and Susannah 
Ogden, d. in 1770, and had: 

I. ''Samuel, b. about 1708, of King Street, d. 
July 2, 1756, m. 1st, , dau. of Thomas 

Studwell, m. 2d, Phebe, dau. of Thomas Lyon, 
d. Jan. 29, 1770, and had: 

1. 5 Samuel, b. in 1739, d. Oct. 28, 1806, m. 
Sarah, dau. of Daniel Newman, removed 
to Somers, N. Y. 

2. s Benjamin, b. March 6, 1741, lived at 



684 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

Rye, N. Y., until about 1800, then 
removed to Oxford, N. Y., d. in 1804, m. 
in 1 761, Polly Kniffin, and had: 

1. ^Gertrude, b. , m. Hobby Adee 
of Rye. 

2. ^ Phebe, b. , m. Charles Leggett» 

3. ^ Charity, b. , m. David Lyon. 

4. ^ Susannah, b. July 23, 1770, d. Aug. 
9, 1827, m. 1st, May 17, 1794, Joseph 
Willson, m. 2d, May 13, 1813, Jesse 
Slawson. 

5. ^ Benjamin, b. , m. Phebe Mer- 
ritt of Rye, and removed to Che- 
nango County, N. Y. 

6. ^ Kniffin, b. , m. Ruth Morey of 
Chenango County, N. Y. 

7. ^ Daniel, b. , m. Abigail Miller 
of Greenwich, Conn., and removed 
to Chenango County. 

3. 5 Justus, b. about 1743, d. in 1781, m. 

Elizabeth , removed to Amenia, N. 

Y., no issue. 

4. s Jotham, b. in 1747, of King Street, d. 
Nov. 18, 181 1, m. Mary, dau. of James 
Brundage, b. in 1754, d. Oct. 21, 1800, 
and had: 

I. ^ Jotham, b. Feb. 2, 1774, d. Oct. 22, 
1828, m. Sarah, dau. of James and 
Martha Green, b. June, 1777, d. Aug. 
I, 1865, and had: 

1. ' Mary, b. about 1800, m. Lewis 
Haight, removed to Bingham- 
ton, N. Y. 

2. ■' James, b. Oct. 29, 1802, d. Nov. 
5, 1878, m. Feb. 22, 1828, Sarah, 
dau, of Joseph and Elizabeth 
(Merritt) Green, b. Dec. 28, 
1796, d. March 4, i860, and 
had: 

1. * Mary G., b. Jan. 29, 1829, 
m. Joshua Mosher. 

2. ® Sarah E., b. April 12, 1832, 
m. Henry Clark. 

3. « Thomas G., b. Feb. 21, 
1836, d. Nov. 26, 1896, m. 
Feb. 21, 1857, Sarah E., 
dau. of Josiah and Betsy 
(Lockwood) Smith, and 
had: 'James G., ' Jeannie, 



Willson Family 685 

''George D., 'Francis F., 
and 9 William J. 
^ Nancy, b. about 1805, m. Aaron 
Wakeman of Lewisboro, N. Y. 
7 Thomas G., b. in 1808, d. Oct. 
15, 1865, m. Rebecca M. Green. 
^ Ann, b. about 1810, m. Caleb 
Husted of Greenwich. 

6. ■^ Samuel G., b. 

7. '> John B., b. in 1812, d. Sept. 23, 
1874, m- Oct. 10, 1837, Ann 
Eliza Carhart. 

8. ''Sarah, b. , m. ist, John 
Finley, m. 2d, William H. Craft. 

2. ^ Mary, b. 

5. s Andrew, b. , removed to Nine Part- 
ners, N. Y. 

6. 5 Rogers, being lame and unable to support 
himself, provision was made for his care in 
his father's will. 

7. s Susannah, b. , m. Jan. 13, 1765, 
Jeremiah Anderson, or Gilbert Murray. 

8. s Thomas, b. in 1756, d. May 3, 1812, m. 
Ruth, dau. of Nathan Merritt, b. in 1759, 
d. July 20, 1822, and had: 

1. ^Elizabeth, b. Sept. 2, 1776, d. Dec. 

12, 1856, m. Knapp Park. 

2. ^ Thomas M., b. Jan. 2, 1782, d. Dec. 

ID, 1824, m. July I, 1 8 10, Elizabeth, 
dau. of Justus and Ann (Lyon) 
Sackett, d. in 1837, and had: 

1. 7 Mary, b. Nov. 9, 181 1, d. Feb. 
II, 1884, unm. 

2. 7 Elizabeth A., b. April 27, 1816, 
d. July 13, 1889, unm. 

3. 7 Sarah, b. Dec. 22, 1819, d. May 
27, 1903, m. Elkanah M. Rey- 
nolds of Greenwich, Conn. 

3. ^ James, M.D., b. Nov. 13, 1785, d. 
Nov. 19, 1862, m. Elizabeth Willis, 
and had: 

1. 7 James, b. 

2. 7 Thomas, b. , removed to 
New York City. 

3. 7 Henry, b. , removed to 
Baltimore, Md. 

2 "Joseph, b. Aug. 30, 1726, of King Street, d. 
June 15, 1811, m. ist, Eunice, dau. of Samuel 
Brown, b. Nov. 7, 1728, m. 2d, Susannah, dau. 



686 Ye Historic of Ye Town of Greenwich 

of Benjamin Willson, b. July 23, 1770, and had 
by ist wife: 

1. 5 Nehemiah, b. June 26, 1751, d. Jan. 24, 
1 8 14, m. Sarah Pierce, and had: 

1. ^Eunice, b. Nov. 23, 1784, d. April 
26, 1865, m, Elias Peck. 

2. ^ Desire, b. March 26, 1789, d. April 
19, 1856, m. Daniel Haight. 

2. 5 Mary, b. Feb. 27, 1755, d. Nov. 17, 1838, 
m. ist, Dec. 31, 1778, Samuel Brown, m. 
2d, James Green. 

3. ^ Susannah, b. Jan. 8, 1762, d. March 22, 
1838, m. Nathan Merritt, and removed to 
North Castle, N. Y. 

4. s Daniel, b. April 17, 1764, d. June 11, 
1 812, m. Hannah , issue. 

5. s Hannah, b. July 21, 1767, d. Oct. 30, 
1857, unm. 

3. " Susannah, b. about 1728, m. Knifhn of 

Rye. 

4. '' Mary, b. about 1730, d. May 19, 1813, m. 
Roger Lyon of North Castle, N. Y. 

5. "William, b. about 1732, d. in 1763, unm. 

WORDEN FAMILY. 

*Dr. Nathaniel Worden from somewhere, perhaps 
New York, bought land in the Town of Greenwich, Dec. 12, 
1720, where he d. in 1738, m. Margaret , and had: 

1. ^Rogers, b. , d. April 19, 1754, m. Elizabeth 
Holmes, and had : 

1. 3 Roger, b. Feb. 8, 1748. 

2. 3 Gilbert, b. March 23, 1750. 

3. 3 Elizabeth, b. March 18, 1752. 

4. 3 Abigail, b. Feb. 11, 1754. 

2. ^ Elizabeth, b. , m. Jonathan Merritt. 

3. ^ Gabriel, b. 

4. ^ Thankful, b. , m. Samuel Worden, perhaps of 
Stratford, Conn. 

5. ' Daniel, b. 

6. ' Hopestill, b. 

7. ^ Margaret, b. 

8. ^Job, b. 

9. ^ Nathaniel, under fourteen in 1742. 

10. ^Andrew, under fourteen in 1742, m. Nov. 28, 1759, 
Mary, dau. of Isaac Holmes, and had: 

I. 3 Noah, b. Aug. 22, 1760, and perhaps others. 

11. ^ Demeas, b. in 1736. 



Worden Family 687 

'Samuel Worden, perhaps of Stratford, Conn., bought 
land in the Town of Greenwich, Jan. 13, 1740, m. Thankful, 
dau. of Dr. Nathaniel Worden of Greenwich, Conn., and 
had: 

1. ^ Mary, b. Jan. lo, 1735. 

2. ^ Phebe, b. Feb. ii, 1737. 

3. ^ Rebecca, b. July 21, 1740. 

4. ^ Samuel, b. Sept. 30, 1742, m. , and had: 
I. 3 Samuel, b. Sept. 10, . 

5. ^Amos, b. April 12, 1745. 

6. ^ Annie, b. Dec. 23, 1747. 

7. ^ Charity, b. June 21, 1750. 

8. ^ Mercy, b. Jan. 30, 1756. 

9. ^ Isaac, b. Nov. 4, 1759, m. Hannah , b. in 1771, d. 

Jan. 26, 1853, and had: 

1 . ^ Saunders, b. 

2. 3 Andrew, b. in 1803, d. Jan. 19, 1868, m. Amanda 
Timpany, b. Aug. 27, 1808, d. Feb. 5, 1886, and 
had: '* Zenas M. and "* Isaac. 

3. 3 Eliakim, b. 

4. 3 Dean, b. in 1805. 

5. 3 Alonzo, b. , d. at Panama. 

6. 3 Abigail, b. , m. Gray. 



INDEX TO PLACES AND SUBJECTS 



Abendroth Brothers, 350 

Acacia Lodge, F. & A. M., 364, 365, 
381 

Albany, 320 

Alexandria, 217, 247 

American Felt Company, 347, 443 

Americus Club, 335, 339 

Amogerone Hook and Ladder Com- 
pany, 276, 383, 384 

Amsterdam, 322 

Anderson ville, 248, 249 

Andrew Radel Company, 356 

Annapolis, 221, 226, 227, 255 

Antietam, 226 

Appomattox, 238 

Appomattox Court House, 239 

Aquia Creek, 245 

Armory, 292 

Armory Hall, 280 

Articles of Confederation, 120 

Artillery Company, 87, 121, 141-143, 
280, 291 

Artillery Uniforms, 114 

Ashland, 214 

Athens, 320 

Atlanta, 220 

Auburn, 324, 329 

Avon, 328 



B 



Ballston, 321 

Baltimore, 214, 244 

Banks, 359 

Banks ville, 425 

Baptist Churches: 
BanksviUe, 425 
Colored, 444 
Eling Street, 423 

Barlow's Knoll, 246 

Barrancas, 253 

Batavia, 328 

Baton Rouge, 226 

Battles: 
Lake George, 71 



Lexington, 107, 108, 122 

Long Island, 125, 127, 151, 154 

Strickland Plains, 16, 65 

White Plains, 126, 127, 131, 151, 

154. 197 

Beaufort, 222 

Bedford, 186, 318, 416 

Belle Haven, 304 

Belle Plain, 245 

Belmont, 331 

Bergen Heights, 146, 152 

Bermuda Front, 256 

Bermuda Hundred, 223, 225, 232, 
233. 238 

Bethany, 331 

Black Rock, 327 

Blakely, 216 

Board of Estimate and Taxation, 299 

Bolivar Heights, 214 

Borough of Greenwich. See Green- 
wich, Borough of 

Boston, 4, 20, 21, 40, 47, 100, 103, 
106-109, 116, 122, 185, 307, 316- 
318,338 

Boundary Hne, 7, 23, 46, 288 

Braddock's Farm, 248 

Bradley's Battalion, 125, 126 

Branford, 40 

Brashear City, 253 

Bridgeport, 51, 175, 195, 206, 208, 
215,243.356 

Bridgewater, 323 

Brockport, 325 

Brooke's Station, 245, 246 

Brooklyn, 125, 151, 154, 320 

Brooklyn Railway Supply Company, 

344 
Bruce Memonal Park, 283 
Brunswick School, 400 
Buffalo, 328 
Bull Run, 245 
Bull Run Mountains, 244 
Burdsall and Ward, 349 
Business Centres, 338 
Buzzard's Bay, 356 
Byram, 178, 422 
Byram Hill, 317, 422 



689 



690 



Index to Places and Subjects 



Byram Manufacturing Company, 347 
Byram River, 2, 24, 32, 34, 46, 51, 

186, 317. 347, 350 
Byram Shore, 269, 354 



Cairo, 253 
Calves Island, 447 
Cambridge, no, in 
Cambridge University, 38, 40 
Camps: 

Black, 271 

Buckingham, 225, 227, 251 

EngHsh, 226 

Marion, 271 

Mead, 271 

Niantic, 270, 271 

No 3., P. O. S. A., 445 

Onward, 271 

Parapet, 252 

Terry, 251, 252 

Wikoff, 272 
Canada, 4, 73 
Canal, 321 
Canal Journey, 325 
Canandaigua, 325, 328 
Cane River, 241 
Cannons, 140, 141 
Cape Cod, 356 
Cape Hatteras, 221 
Captain Gibb's Guard, in 
Captain's Island, 288 
Carmel, 318 
Carrollton, 252 
Catlett's Station, 247 
CatskiU Mountains, 320 
Cauks Purchase, 34 
Cayuga Lake, 325, 329 
Cedar Creek, 214, 226, 241 
Cedar Mountain, 219 
Cedar Run Church, 2:4 
CeUar Neck, 468 
Cemetery Hill, 237, 246 
Centerville, 252 
Chancellorsville, 219, 245, 249 
Chantilly, 245 

Chapin's Farm, 224, 225, 235 
Charles City Road, 224, 225 
Charles River, 106 
Charleston, 222, 229, 230, 231, 238, 

247 
Charlestown Common, 107 
Chattahoola, 226 
Chenango Creek, 330 
Chenango Forks, 330 
Chesterfield Court House, 220 
Chester Station, 223, 225 
Chickahominy, 216, 304 
Chimney Comer, 158 



Claim to Land in Pennsylvania, 89 
Churches. See respective denomina- 
tions 
Civil War, 201-258 
Clubs and Societies, 445 
Cohoes, 321 
Cold Harbor, 218 
Cole's Island, 230 
Committee of Safety, 106, 107, 118- 

120 
Compo, 142 
Concord, 35, 106, 107 
Congregational Churches : 

First, 35, 38-45, 64, 87, 401 

North Greenwich, 409 

North Mianus, 413 

Pilgrim, 438 

Second, 40-45, 55-57. 65, 66, 86, 
87, 155, 180, 186, 274, 280, 281, 

355-.405 

Stanwich, 66, 407 

Swedish, 414 
Congress: 

Continental, 106, 108-I10, 112, 
115, 116, 117, 118, 144 

County, 117, 118 

Mass., Provincial, 106-108, 122 

N. H. Provincial, 107 

U S., 90 
Connecticut, 4, 8, 19, 22, 23, 28, 32, 

35, 89, 103, 107, no, 113, 117, 194, 

288, 307, 313 
Connecticut Lighting and Power 

Company, 338, 353 
Connecticut Railway and Lighting 

Company, 337 
Connecticut River, 8, 23 
Connecticut Turnpike Company, 

186 
Constitution, 194, 306, 307 
Continental Army, 99-no, 119 
Continental Congress. See Congress, 

Continental 
Continental Guards, in 
Continental Mower and Reaper Com- 
pany, 344 
Cortlandt Manor, 177 
Cos Cob, I, 2, II, 18, 32, 55-59, 168, 

175. 317- 332, 337. 338, 345. 346, 

391 
Cos Cob Fire Company, 391 
Cos Cob Mill. See Mills 
Council of Safety, 141-143, 146, 180- 

181 
Court House, 88, 198 
Courts, 306-312 

Assistants, 308 

Borough Court of Greenwich, 312 

Common Pleas, 309, 311, 312 

County, 51, 175, 309, 310 



Index to Places and Subjects 



691 



Courts, — Continued 
General, 24, 25, 28, 45, 306-308, 

313 

Justices, 311, 312 

Magistrates, 307, 315 

Particular, 307, 308, 310 

Plantation, 307 

Probate, 64, 199, 310, 312 

Superior, 64, 308, 309, 311, 312 

Supreme, 60, 308, 311 

Town, 307 
Cow Bay, 18, 158 
Craig's Church, 214 
Cross Keys, 214 
Crown Point, 68, 70-85 
Cuba, 270-272 



D 



Dallas, 220 

Danbury, 182, 243 

Darbytown Road, 224, 225, 236, 239, 

255 

Dawfuski Island, 222 
Declaration of Independence, 144 
Deep Bottom, 223, 225, 226, 233- 

235. 238 
Deep Gully, 235, 239 
Deep River, 223, 225 
Deep Run, 239 
Delaware, 114 
Delaware River, 89, 331 
Diehl's Hall, 439 
Dinwiddle, 237 
Distilled Mineral Water Company, 

351 
Docks, 61, 269 
Dover, 20, 331 

Drewry's Bluff, 223, 231, 238 
Dumpling Pond. See North Mianus 
Dunnjs Lake, 248, 249 
Dutch, 3, 4, 8, 10, 14, 16, 22, 23, 24, 

65, 103, 320 
Dutch Point, 4 
Dyberry Creek, 331 



E 



East Port Chester, 339, 350-352, 396, 

439. 440, 442 
Edenton Road, 242 
Edisto Inlet, 229 
Elizabeth Neck, 5, 26 
Elk Mountain, 330 
Ely School, 401 
E. M. Merritt's Shipyard, 352 
Empire Lodge, I. O. O. F., 276 
England, 188 
English, I. 4, 16, 23, 68 



Episcopal Churches: 
Byram Chapel, 422 
Calvary, 419 
Christ, 355, 414 
Emanuel Chapel, 422 
Rosemary Chapel, 423 
Saint Andrew, 421 
Saint John, 173, 417 
Saint John's Chapel, 422 
Saint Paul, 420 



Fairfield, 36, 117, 198, 243 

Fairfield County, 89, 102, 124, 243, 

251, 252, 309 
Falmouth, 245 
Fenn and Morehouse, 354 
Ferry Point, 158 
Field Point, 191 
Fire Alarm System, 304, 391 
Fire Companies, 304, 383 
Fisher's Hill, 241 
Fishkill, 318 
Five Forks, 214 
Florida, 245, 247, 248, 252, 272 
Flushing, 30 

Folly Island, 222, 230, 244, 247 
Folly River, 222 
Forts: 

Amsterdam, 8, 9, 19 

Beauregard, 221 

Bradley, 237 

Darling, 226 

Ellsworth, 217 

Fisher, 223, 224, 225 

Gaines, 216 

Gregg, 237, 239 

Harrison, 226, 235, 239 

Huger, 226 

Johnson, 247 

Kearney. 244 

Lee, 146, 152 

Lyon, 217 

Macon, 226 

Mansfield, 291 

Marshall, 244 

Morgan, 216 

Moultrie, 247 

Niagara, 271 

Nonsense, 120, 155 

North, 217 

Pulaski, 222, 223, 224 

San Marco, 248 

Sedgwick, 256 

Sumtei, 201, 222, 247 

Terry, 291 

Ticonderoga, 78 

Wagner, 223,225, 230,231,247,249 
Walker, 221 



692 



Index to Places and Subjects 



Forts, — Contintied 

Washington, 146, 152 

Weld, 217 

Willard, 217 

William Henry, 74 

Williams, 217 

Wright, 291 
Franklin, 214, 331 
Fredericksburg, 216, 226, 242, 245 
French, 4, 68, 70 
French and Indian War, 70-86, 106, 

290 
Front Royal, 214 
Fuzzell's Mills, 235 



Gaine's Mill, 216 

Gainesville, 244 

Game well Fire Alarm System, 304, 

391 
Gardiner's Bay, 356 
Gas Supply Company, 337 
General Assembly, 115, 117, 118, 119, 

142-143, 182-184, 306-312 
General Court. See Courts 
Genesee River, 328 
Geneva, 325, 329 
Genoa, 323, 324, 329 
George Mertz Sons, 351 
Georgia, 114 
Georgia Landing, 241 
Gerhardt Plantation, 236 
Germania Ford, 245 
Gettysburg, 216, 219, 246, 247, 249 
Glenville, 347, 381, 389, 422, 423, 

426, 442 
Glenville Mills, 348 
Glenville Power and Water Company, 

348. 
Glenville Woollen Company, 348 
Gloucester Point, 231 
Golden Hill, 216 
Goldsboro, 228, 229, 238 
Graham School, 398 
Grand Army Posts: 

Buckingham, 276 

Douglass Fowler, 276 

Elias Howe, Jr., 276 

E. D. Pickett, 276 

Hobbie, 276 

Lafayette, 284 

Lombard, 275, 284 

Minor, 284 

Samuel P. Ferris, 276 
Great Britain, 89 
Greenwich, Borough of, i, 30, 40, 41, 

43. 44. 57, 65. 160, 192, 300-305, 

338, 339 



Greenwich, Old Town. See Sound 
Beach 

Greenwich, Town of, i, 5, 7, 15, 18, 
21, 23, 28, 34, 42-46, 51, 60-64, 88, 
127, 140-144, 186, 198, 199, 201- 
213, 243, 280, 282, 283, 287, 289, 
292-300, 307, 311, 313, 315, 316 

Greenwich Academy, 397 

Greenwich and New York Naviga- 
tion Company, 333, 336 

Greenwich and Ridgefield Turnpike 
Company, 186 

Greenwich and Rye Steamboat Com- 
pany, 335, 339 

Greenwich Gaslight Company, 352 

Greenwich Gas and Electric Lighting 
Company, 353 

Greenwich General Hospital, 382 

Greenwich Graphic, The, 357 

Greenwich Hospital Association, 383 

Greenwich Incorporated a Town, 28 

Greenwich Iron Works, 340 

Greenwich Library, 391 

Greenwich Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company, 354 

Greenwich National Bank, 360 

Greenwich News, The, 358 

Greenwich Observer, The, 356 

Greenwich Patent, 28, 51 

Greenwich Point, 5. 191, 192 

Greenwich Press, The, 358 

Greenwich Sash and Door Company, 

354 
Greenwich Savings Bank, 359 
Greenwich Tramway Company, 337 
Greenwich Trust Company, 359 
Greenwich Water Company, 353 
Greenwich Yacht Yard, 352 
Grimes Land, 36, 37, 38, 43 
Grimes Will, 36 



H 



Habits of Early Settlers, 313-317 

Hackensack, 319 

Hagerstown, 246 

Half-way House, 232 

Hamilton, 228 

Hanover, 332 

Hanover Court House, 214, 216 

Harlan and HoUingsworth, 335 

Harlem Heights, 125, 127, 151, 154 

Harper's Farm, 214 

Harper's Ferry, 219 

Harrison, 177 

Harrisonburg, 214 

Hartford, 4, 23, 24, 28, 115, 181, 184, 

185, 195, 225, 227, 238, 306, 307, 

308, 316 



Index to Places and Subjects 



693 



Hartford County, 102 

Harvard College, 36, 40 

Hatcher's Run, 218 

Havana, 82, 270 

Havre, 195 

Hawley, 325 

Hawthorne Brass Foundry, 351 

Hawthorne Mills Company, 347 

Health Department, 304 

Held House, 153 

Held's Point, 155 

Hell Gate, 336 

Hempstead, 18, 158 

Herkimer, 323 

Hess School, 399 

Hilton Head, 222, 223, 249 

Hoboken, 332 

Hopewell, 319 

Hopewell Gap, 245 

Horseneck. See Greenwich, Borough 

of 
Horseneck Brook, 31, 60, 164, 170, 

187, 332 
Hospitals, 382 
Hotels. See Taverns 
Housatonic Power Company, 353 
Howe School, 399 
Hoyt, Sprague and Company, 348 
Hudson, 320 
Hudson River, 319 
Huntington, 35, 37, 38 



Incidents of Early Settlers, 313-317 

Indian Deeds, 5, 31, 34 

Indian Field, 168 

Indian Harbor, 153 

Indian Harbor Hotel, 339 

Indian Names. See Index to Persons 

Indian Occupancy, i 

Indian Tribes, i 

Indian Troubles, 10 

Industries, 340-359 

Investigation of Town Affairs, 292- 

297 
Irish Bend, 241 
Israel Putnam House Association, 

287 
Ithaca, 329 



Jacksonville, 222, 247, 248, 249 

Jail, 89 

James Island, 222, 223, 224, 230 

James River, 231, 233, 235, 237 

Jersey City, 146, 152 

John Romer, 335, 339 

John's Island, 229 



Johnson Place, 236, 239 
Jones Island, 222 
Jones' Landing, 233 
Jurisdiction of the Dutch, 8-24 
Jurisdiction of the New Haven 

Colony, 25-28 
Justices of the Peace. See Courts 



K 



Kell House, 255 

Kelley's Ford, 217, 245 

Kerneysville, 214 

Killing worth, 40 

Kinderhook, 320 

King George's War, 68, 69, 290 

King Street, 156, 178 

King William's War, 68 

Kingsbridge, 160 

King's Highway. See Post Road 

Kinston, 228, 238, 242 

Knapp Tavern. See Putnam Cottage 

Knights of Columbus, 276 

Knights of Pythias, 276 



Lackawaxen River, 331 

Laddin's Rock, 14 

Lake George, 71, 86 

Lakeland, 272 

Las Guasimas, 272 

Laurel Hill Church, 239 

Lawyers, 360 

Lazzari and Barton, 279 

Lenox House, 267, 279 

Leroy, 328 

Lewiston, 326 

Lexington, 107, 109, 122, 153 

Libraries, 391 

Litchfield County, 217, 252 

Lockport, 325 

Lock-up, 269, 281 

Long Island, 4, 17, 23, 125," 127,- 251, 

288, 356 
Long Island Sound, 157, 188, 194, 

315. 335- 356 
Long Ridge, 178 
Lutheran Churches: 

Danish, 339, 440 

German, 339, 439 

Slovak, 339, 440 
Lynn, 40 

M 

McDowell, 214 
Macon, 248 
Malvern Hill, 216 
Mamaroneck, 11, 159 



694 



Index to Places and Subjects 



Manassas, 291 

Manlius, 323 

Mansura, 241 

Marietta, 220 

Market Boats. See Packet Boats 

Maryland, 1 08-1 10 

Masonic Home, 364 

Massachusetts, 4, 20, no, 113, 115 

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 100, 103, 

306 
Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 

See Congress 
Mead's Point, 191 
Meadow Bridge, 214 
Meridian Hill, 220 
Mertz and Boerner, 351 
Mespeth, 18 
Methodist Churches: 

Colored, 443 

Diamond Hill, 434 

First, 431 

King Street, 426 

Round Hill, 429 

Stanwich, 433 
Methodist Protestant Church, 435 
Mexico, 198 
Mianus, 47, 61-64, 65. 120, 332, 338, 

344 
Mianus Ladder and Hose Company, 

388 
Mianus Manufactunng Company, 

342 
Mianus Mill. See Mills 
Mianus Motor Works, 344 
Mianus River, 2, 27, 32, 34, 35, 41- 

45. 47. 59. 62, 64, 186, 191, 317, 

340,341,344, 355, 405, 410 
Middletown, 90, 271 
Milford, 39, 331 
MiHtia, 92-109, 289 
Mill River, 46, 51 
Mills: 

Cos Cob, 55-59 

Davis, 530 

Horseneck Brook, 60 

Mianus, 60-64 

North Mianus, 47, 59, 64 
Milton, 163 
Minute Men, 100 
Mississippi River, 253 
Mississippi Sound, 226, 241 
Modes of Life of Early Settlers, 313- 

317 
Mohawk River, 321 
Montauk Point, 272 
Moorefield, 214 
Moore House, 113 
Morris Island, 222, 223, 224, 229, 

230, 231, 234, 244, 247, 249 
Morristown, 112 



Mount Vernon, 159 
Murray Hill, 154 

N 

National Guards. See Militia 

Neuse River, 228 

New Amsterdam, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 18, 

21, 23, 24, 65 
Newark, 40, 332 
Newbern, 226, 228, 229, 238 
Newburgh, 114 
New Canaan, 148, 149, 243 
New England, 20, 103 
New Form of Government, 297-300 
New Hampshire, 113 
New Hartford, 323 
New Haven, 28, 89, 215, 220, 223, 

226, 241, 242, 251, 252, 253, 255, 

307. 335, 337 

New Haven Colony, 4, 5, 22, 23, 24, 
25, 28, 103, 251, 280, 307 

New Haven County, 102 

New Jersey, 113, 153 

New Lebanon Iron Foundry, 351 

New London County, 102 

Newman's School, 399 

Newmarket Heights, 235 

Newmarket Road, 224, 225, 239 

New Milford, 330 

New Netherlands. See New Amster- 
dam 

New Orleans, 192, 251 

Newport, 325 

New Rochelle, 160, 163, 337 

Newspapers, 356 

Newtown, 38, 243 

New Utrecht, 70 

New York and Stamford Railway 
Company, 337 

New York Bay, 356 

New York City, 47, 103, 123, 124, 
125, 127, 128, 129, 144, 151, 152, 
153. 154. 157, 179. 185, 195, 196, 
208, 223, 236, 252, 315-318, 332, 

335. 337. 338 
New York, New Haven and Hartford 

R. R., 336 
New York State, 32, 103, no, 113, 

142, 288 
Niagara Falls, 326 
Niantic, 291 
North Carolina, 114, 223, 227, 228, 

229 
North Castle, 156, 416 
North Cos Cob, 2, 435 
North Greenwich, 147, 151, 155, 409 
North Greenwich Academy, 398 
North Mianus, 2, 27, 47, 57, 120, 155, 

317. 338, 340-342, 346, 413 



Index to Places and Subjects 



695 



North Stamford, 178 
Norwalk, 46, 51, 88, 89, 127, 142, 
143, 198, 243, 289, 318, 335 



O 



Oak Hill, 246 

Oak Street, 301, 302 

Old Church Road, 303 

Old Church Tavern, 214 

Olustee, 225, 247 

Orange, 332 

Orange Court House, 217 

Owego, 330, 331 

Owego River, 330 

Oyster Bay, 21, 23 

Oyster Industry, 355 



Packet Boats, 58, 332-335- 338 

Palmer Brothers, 346, 391 

Palmer and Duff's Shipyard, 345 

Palo Alto, 198 

Paper Mill, 341 

Paris, 270 

Peach Tree Creek, 220 

Pecksland, 57, 156, 167, 173, 175, 

178, 199 
Peck's School, 399 
Peconic Bay, 356 
Pemberwick, 349 

Pennsylvania, 89, 104, 108-110, 114 
Pensacola, 252 

Perrot Memorial Library, 394 
Perrot School, 398 
Petersburg, 217, 218, 223, 226, 232, 

235. 237. 239. 255. 256 
Philadelphia, 89, 106, 115, 117, 184 
Philippine Islands, 271 
Physicians, 370 

Pinkerton's Detective Agency, 269 
Pinneo's School, 399 
Pleasant Mount, 331 
Plymouth, 4, 99, 103, 228 
Pocotaligo, 222, 223, 224 
PoUce Department, 304 
Poorhouse, 199 
Population in 1762, 87 
Port Chester, 161, 337, 350 
Port Chester Bolt and Nut Company, 

350 
Port Hudson, 241, 253 
Port RepubUc, 214 
Port Royal, 22 1 , 223 
Port Tampa, 272 
Post Road, 34, 47, 272, 301-303, 316, 

338 
Potomac River, 245, 246 
Poughkeepsie, 319 



Poundridge, 186 

Powder, 117 

Presbyterian Churches: 
First, 49, 160, 355, 437 
Pilgrim, 438 

Private Schools, 397 

Probate Court. See Courts 

Proctor's Creek, 223 

Protection Engine and Hose Com- 
pany, 386, 390 

Protection Engine Company, 389 

Providence, 317, 356 

Providence Church Road, 242 

Pubhc Schools, 394 

Pulaski, 241 

Putnam Cottage, 167, 172-177, 264, 
284-287 

Putnam Hill Chapter, D. A. R., 168, 
177, 273, 284-287 

Putnam Hill Park, 272, 301-303 

Putnam Monument, 273 

Put's Hill, 165-168, 193, 272, 301, 
317- 418 



Q 



Queenstown Heights, 326 

Quaker Ridge. See North Greenwich 

Quarries, 354 

Queen Anne's War, 68 



R 



Railroads, 336 
Rapidan River, 245 
Rappahannock River, 245 
Rawle's Mills, 228 
Ray's Hall, 279, 281 
Reams Station, 214 
Redding, 160, 243 
Regiments : 

4th, 264, 291 

6th, 220-224 

8th, 290 

9th, 97, 123-137, 188-193, 226, 
289 

loth, 227-241 

17th, 243-251 

28th, 252-254 
Resaca, 220 
Revolutionary War, 106, 109, 115- 

184 
Rhinebeck, 319 
Rhode Island, 102, 107, 113 
Richmond, 217, 224, 225, 232, 233, 

236, 238, 255 
Ridgefield, 64, 149, 186, 243, 289, 

311. 318 
Rippowam River, 341 



696 



Index to Places and Subjects 



Rippowam Woollen Manufacturing 

Company, 342 
Riverside, 420 

Riverside Water Company, 344 
Riversville, 346 
Riversville Chapel, 441 
Rivington Press, 157 
Roanoke Island, 227, 228, 238 
Roanoke River, 228 
Rochester, 325 
Rockaway, 356 

Rocky Neck, 269, 304, 332, 335, 352 
Rolling Mills, 340, 341, 342 
Roman Catholic Churches: 

Sacred Heart, 339, 442 

Saint John's, 441 

Saint Mary's, 355, 441 

Saint Paul's, 442 
Rosemary Hall, 400, 423 
Round Hill, 155, 179, 410, 419, 429 
Russell, Burdsall and Ward Bolt and 

Nut Company, 349 
Rye, 42, 46, 51, 144, 160, 288, 316, 

318, 415 



Sailor's Creek, 218 

St. Augustine, 231, 238, 248 

St. Helena Island, 229 

St. John's, 152 

St. John's Island, 247 

St. John's River, 248 

Salem, 38, 106 

Salisbury, 141 

Sandwich, 38 

San Francisco, 271 

San Juan, 272 

Santiago, 272 

Saratoga, 321 

Saunders, 248, 249 

Savannah, 221, 222, 271 

Saybrook, 4 

Schenectady, 322 

School Fund, 87 

Schools: 

Private, 397 

Public, 29, 394 
Seabrook Island, 229, 238 
Seal of the Town of Greenwich, 365 
SecessionviUe, 222, 223 
Seneca Falls, 325 
Seneca Lake, 325, 329 
Seneca River, 325, 329 
Ship Island, 226, 241, 252 
Shipyards, 345, 352 
Short Hills, 114 
Siboney, 272 
Silver Run, 220 
Skaneateles, 324 



Slocum's Creek, 227 

Societies and Clubs, 445 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 274- 
279, 280, 281 

Somers, 318 

Sound Beach, i, 14, 16, 18, 24, 29, 
34, 36, 41, 43, 44, 192, 314. 338, 
343. 390, 394- 438 

Sound Beach Hose Company, 390 

Southampton, 40 

South CaroUna, 114, 229 

Spain, 20 

Spanish-American War, 270-272 

Sparta, 331 

Spottsylvania Court House, 214 

Springfield Landing, 253 

Spring Hill, 235 

Staflford Court House, 245 

Stage Journey, 318 

Stage Line, 185, 318 

Stamford, 7, 16, 21, 24, 25, 28, 35, 44, 
46, 51, 64, 66, 84, 120, I27,VI43, 
161, 173, 198, 243, 274, 289, 307, 
311, 314, 319, 335, 337, 338, 416 

Standard Oyster Company, 356 

Stanwich, 86, 168, 186, 318 

State Constitution, 194 

Staten Island, 12, 356 

Steamboats, 335 

Steep Hollow. See North Mianus 

Steep Hollow Chapel, 413 

Sterling Foundry Company, 352 

Stillwater Rolling Mills, 341 

Storm ville, 319 

Strasburg, 214 

Stratford River, 186 

Strawberry Plains, 234, 238 

Strickland Brook, 2, 18, 35, 55, 459, 

463 

Strickland Plains, 2 
Sugar House Prison, 159 
Svillivan, 323 
Summerville, 271 
Susquehanna Case, 89 
Susquehanna River, 90, 330 
Swan's Paper Mill, 341 
Sweat House Creek, 214 



Tampa, 272 

Tampa Heights, 272 

Tarboro, 228 

Tatomuck Brook, 46, 51 

Taverns, 48-51, 444 

Texas, 198 

Thoroughfare Gap, 244 

Throgg's Neck, 188, 194 

Ticonderoga, 85, 109 

Tingue, House and Company, 348 



Index to Places and Subjects 



697 



ToU-gate, 186, 355 

Tories, 179-182 

Town Bonds, 259-263 

Town Debt, 259-263 

Town Farm. See Poorhouse 

Town Hall, 86, 121, 142, 169, 197, 

279, 280-283 
Town Meetings, 28, 44, 280 
Town Seal, 365 
Train Bands. See Militia 
Training Days. See Militia 
Trenton, 90, 228 
Trolley Lines, 337 
Troy, 321 
Tryon's Raid, 160-171, 279, 280 



U 



Uniforms of Continental Army, 113 
Union Lodge, 173 
United States, 91, 121, 198, 289 
Utica, 323, 332 



Vernon, 323 

Virginia, 99, 104, 108-110, 114, 223, 
231, 244, 246 

Virginia House of Burgesses, 108 

Volunteer Hook and Ladder Com- 
pany, 385, 395 

Volunteer Rock Drill Company, 343 

Volusia, 248 



W 



Wadsworth's Brigade, 125, 126, 128, 
146, 152, 154 



Walthall Junction, 226, 231, 238 

Walton, 149 

War of 1812, 188 

War with Mexico, 198 

Warrensburgh, 71 

Warsaw Sound, 221 

Warwickshire, 20 

Washington, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 

220, 224, 242, 244, 270 
Washington Life Guard, 1 1 1 
Waterbury, 40 
Waterford, 214, 321 
Waterloo, 327, 329 
Watertown, 5 
Waynesboro, 214 
Welaka, 248, 249 
West India Company, 8 
West Meriden, 213 
Westport, 243 
Wethersfield, 4, 7, 23 
Wheeling, 213 
Whitehall, 229, 238 
White Plains, 126, 127, 131, 154, 

416 
Wier Bottom, 233 
Wilcox Factory, 346 
WilHamstown, 228 
Wilmington, 223, 224 
Winchester, 214, 219, 241 
Windsor, i, 4, 23 
Wire Mill, 341 
Woodstock, 214 



Yale CoUege, 40 
Yorktown, 216 



INDEX TO PERSONS 



A 



Abbott, B. T., Rev., 428 
Abbott, David, 79 
Abbott, Frank, 422 
Abbott, George, 682 
Abendroth, Augustus, 350 
Abendroth, John, 350 
Abendroth, W. A., 277 
Abendroth, William P., 350 

Abercromby, , General, 77 

Abrahamson, John, 516 
Abrahamson, Justus, 83 
Abrams, Edwin H., 358 
Abrams, John, 132 
Acker, Mary, 361 
Acker, Peter, 361 
Ackerly, Caleb, 554 
Ackerly, Felix, 75 
Ackerly, Henry, 25, 446 
Ackerly, Joseph, 446, 457 
Ackerly, Joseph, Jr., 446 
Ackerman, Gilbert, 353 
Ackerman, Lodwyck, 515 

Adams, , 556 

Adams, Aaron, 491 
Adams, Abigail, 446, 489 
Adams, Abraham, 489, 490 
Adams, Abram, 491 
Adams, Avis, 489 
Adams, Benjamin, 490 
Adams, Benjamin M., Rev., 431, 
Adams, Betsy, 490, 491 
Adams, Candey, 489 
Adams, Charles E., 491 
Adams, Charles W., 490 
Adams, Daniel, 489 
Adams, David, 490, 491 
Adams, Deborah, 489 
Adams, Edward, 489, 648 
Adams, Elithere, 491 
Adams, EHzabeth, 489, 491 
Adams, Ella G., 491 
Adams, Frances, 491 
Adams, Frank E., 491 
Adams, Franklin, 490 



433 



Adams 



George E., 490 



Adams, Hannah, 489 

Adams, Henry, 491 

Adams, Henry H., Colonel, 177, 275, 

287, 344, 349 
Adams, Howard N., 491 
Adams, Ida B., 491 
Adams, Isaac, 491 
Adams, James E., 490 
Adams, Jane A., 491 
Adams, John, 73, 136, 446, 489, 490, 

491- 593 
Adams, John A., 490 
Adams, John Q., 215 
Adams, Jonathan, 83, 124, 139, 446, 

489, 490, 491 
Adams, Jonathan, Jr., 83 
Adams, Joseph, 490 
Adams, Julia H., 490 
Adams, Laura, 491 
Adams, Marilda H., 490 
Adams, Mary, 489, 648 
Adams, Mary E., 490 
Adams, Nathan, 489 
Adams, Nathaniel, 181, 489, 490 
Adams, Nathaniel E., 490 
Adams, Percy D., 295, 296, 360 
Adams, Phebe, 491 
Adams, Rebecca, 489 
Adams, Ruth, 489 
Adams, Samuel, 446, 489, 490, .'gi 
Adams, Samuel G., 360 
Adams, Sarah, 489, 490, 491 
Adams, Sarah H., 490 
Adams, Sophia M., 360 
Adams, Susan C, 490 
Adams, Susannah, 489 
Adams, Walter H., 491 
Adams, Wellett G., 491 
Addington, Henry, 181 
Addington, John, 81, 446, 556 
Adee, Hobby, 684 
Adoms, Abraham, 81 
Adsitt, Mary, 585 
Aget, George, 446 
Alcott, WiUiam P., Rev., 412 



699 



700 



Index to Persons 



Alexander, Henry, 250 
Alger, James, 79 
AUcorn, Luther H., 360 
Allen, Alexander, 446, 483 
Allen, Aurelia, 627 
Allen, A. Judson, Rev., 426 
Allen, Charles C, M.D., 370 
Allen, David K., 336 
Allen, Dwight D., 628 
Allen, Ebenezer, 627 
Allen, EUzabeth, 535 
Allen, Frederick I., 618, 628 
Allen, George, 627, 628 
Allen, Julia E., 628 
Allen, Lewis C, 628 
Allen, Lloyd S., 628 
Allen, Ralph P., 628 
Allen, Welles L., 628 
Allen, William, 627 
Allen, WilUam P., 627 
Allen, William S., 628 
Allerton, Cornelius, Dr., 584 
Alley, Harvey B., Rev., 426 
Alley, PhiUp 0., 384 

Allyn, , Captain, 195 

AUyn, Charles B., 263, 345, 388, 389 
Allyne, Mary, 446, 451 
Ambler, Charles, 525 
Ambler, Jonathan, 81 
Ambler, Stephen, 73 

Ames, , General, 247, 248 

Ammerman, Oliver V., Rev., 430 
Andersen, A. V., Rev., 440 
Andersen, R., Rev., 440 

Anderson, , Major, 201 

Anderson, , 613 

Anderson, Ann, 649 
Anderson, A. A., 339, 393 
Anderson, Elizabeth, 496 
Anderson, George H., Rev., 434, 435 
Anderson, Hannah, 649 
Anderson, Isaac, 181, 446, 496, 649 
Anderson, James, 446, 451, 452 
Anderson, Jeremiah, 446, 447, 458, 

486, 685 
Anderson, John, 119, 120, 179, 288, 

446 
Anderson, Joseph, 447 
Anderson, Maria, 360 
Anderson, Matthew, 652 
Anderson, Nathaniel, 632 
Anderson, Thomas, 360 
Anderson, Walter M., 360 
Anderson, William, 447, 452, 458, 

465. 483. 506, 635 

Andrews, , 268, 368 

Andrews, Charles B., 277 
Andrews, Daniel, 623 
Andrews, E., Rev., 428 
Andrews, Edwin C, 396 



Andrews, John, 590 

Andrus, , 560 

Andrus, Jeremiah, 575 

Andrus, Luman, Rev., 428, 430, 432 

Angevine, Esther, 633 

Anyan, WilUam S., 384 

Arms, WilUam F., Rev., 404 

Arnold, Franklin, 276 

Arnold, John, 37 

Arnold, John H., 276 

Arnold, Robert, 416 

Arnold, S., Rev., 428 

Ash, Samuel, 133 

Ashford, Henry A., 286 

Ashley, B. F., 357, 422 

Ashman, Catherine, 534 

Ashman, EUzabeth, 534 

Ashman, Robert, 534 

Ask, Samuel, 129 

Ask, Thomas, 73, 76 

Asten, Henry, Rev., 433 

Astin, John, 31 

Astin, Lockwood, 73 

Atwater, Jeremiah W., 421 

Atwood, Henry, 447, 453 

Atwood, J. W., General, 273 

Austin, , 542 

Austin, Albert E., M.D., 370 

Austin, David, 79 

Austin, Elizabeth, 547 

Austin, Henry C, 370 

Austin, Isaac, 140 

Austin, Job, 75, 92 

Austin, John, 25, 31, 47, 54, 131, 

447 
Austin, Jonathan, 66, 408, 416, 447, 

541 
Austin, Leah M., 370 
Austin, Nathaniel, 131 
Austin, Samuel, 131, 181 
Austin, Thomas, 447 

Avery, , 556 

Avery, Aaron, 493 
Avery, Abraham, 494 
Avery, Abram, 493 
Avery, Alanson, 493 
Avery, Amelia, 493 
Avery, Amos, 493 
Avery, Amos C, 494 
Avery, Amos W., 336, 494 
Avery, Augustus P., 345 
Avery, Benjamin, 492 
Avery, Betsy, 493 
Avery, Caroline, 493 
Avery, Catharine, 493 
Avery, Catharine L., 494 
Avery, Christopher, 491, 492 
Avery, David, 493 
Avery, Deborah, 492 
Avery, Ebenezer, 492 



Index to Persons 



701 



Avery, Edward, 447, 451, 486, 492, 

494 
Avery, Elihu, 492 
Avery, Elizabeth, 493, 494, 535 
Avery, Emeline, 495 
Avery, Emily A., 494 
Avery, Evert D., 493, 494 
Avery, Frances, 493 
Avery, George, 493 
Avery, Gertrude, 494 
Avery, Hannah, 492, 493, 494 
Avery, Henry, 493 
Avery, Ira, 493, 494 
Avery, Israel, 493 
Avery, Israel K., 495 
Avery, James, 492, 493 
Avery, John, 189, 416, 492, 493, 494 
Avery, Jonathan, 492 
Avery, Joseph, 492 
Avery, Levina, 493 
Avery, Loretta, 494 
Avery, Louisa, 494 
Avery, Mabel R., 494 
Avery, Malvina, 493 
Avery, Margaret, 492 
Avery, Marilda, 495 
Avery, Martha W., 494 
Avery, Mary, 492, 500 
Avery, Mary E., 495 
Avery, Mary J., 494 
Avery, Mary L., 494 
Avery, Matilda, 495 
Avery, Minerva, 493 
Avery, Orlando, 493 
Avery, Peter, 73, 493, 494. 535 
Avery, Prudence, 492, 493 
Avery, Rachel, 493, 494 
Avery, Rebecca, 492, 493 
Avery, Reuben, 493, 494 
Avery, Sally, 536 
Avery, Sally H., 495 
Avery, Samuel, 492 
Avery, Sarah, 492, 493, 494 
Avery, Sarah E., 494 
Avery, Seth A., 493 
Avery, Thirza M., 494 
Avery, Thomas, 492 
Avery, Walter, 493, 494 
Avery, William, 493 
Avery, Zophar, 493 
Ayres, Mary, 673 

B 

Baas, Henry, 124 
Babcock, M. H., 266 
Bacheller, Irving, 358 
Backus, Simon, Rev., 404 

Bacon, , 266 

Bacon, J. N., Colonel, 265 



Bahringer, Frank, 388 

Bailey, , 619 

Bailey, Asa P., 190 

Bailey, George S., 494 

Bailey, William H., 224, 264, 275 

Baird, Robert, 79, 81 

Baker, Carrie V., 376 

Baker, Charles, 257 

Baker, Edwin H., 295, 296, 297, 376 

Baker, George B., 358 

Baker, Harriet V., M.D., 376 

Baker, Tallmadge, 265 

Baker, William A., 250 

Baldwin, , 592 

Baldwin, Catherine, 606 
Balhs, Thomas, 416 
Ballou, Ransom, Rev., 436, 437 
Bane, John S., Rev., 409 
Bangs, William, Rev., 430, 435 
Bangs, WiUiam H., Rev., 432 
Bangs, William McK., Rev., 433 

Banks, , 640 

Banks, , General, 219, 251 

Banks, Abby, 500 

Banks, Abigail, 425, 447, 496, 497, 

498, 501, 608 
Banks, Abraham, 496 
Banks, Adelaide, 497 
Banks, Alanson, 500 
Banks, Albert, 498 
Banks, Ann A., 498 
Banks, Ann E., 498 
Banks, Ann F., 498 
Banks, Ann M., 425 
Banks, Anna, 499 
Banks, Anne, 496 
Banks, Augustine, 497 
Banks, Benjamin, 498, 500, 501 
Banks, Benjamin F., 425 
Banks, Betsy, 500 
Banks, Betty, 499 
Banks, Burtis, 498 
Banks, Caroline H., 497 
Banks, Catharine, 496 
Banks, Charity, 498 
Banks, Clarissa, 500 
Banks, Clarissa N., 500 
Banks, Daniel, 123, 447, 470, 496, 

497, 498, 557. 655 
Banks, David 129, 131, 134, 45i. 497 
Banks, David, C, 257 
Banks, Deborah, 499, 500, 664 
Banks, Diadamia, 500 
Banks, Ebenezer, 500 
Banks, Edmund, 497 
Banks, Edward, 499 
Banks, Edwin C., 495 
Banks, Eliza, 498 
Banks, Elizabeth, 496, 497, 498, 499, 

501 



702 



Index to Persons 



Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
50 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 

425- 

497. 

664 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 

496, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks 

655 
Banks 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 



Elizabeth A., 500 
Emily, 425 
Estelle, 497 
Esther, 500 
Esther, O., 500 
Ezra, 500 
Ezra F., 425 
Frances E., 425 
Hannah, 495, 496, 499, 500, 
1, 609 

Hannah E., 496 
Ichabold, 501 
Jacob, 496 
James, 496, 497, 499 
James N., 500 
Jemima, 500 
Jeremiah, 499 
Jessie, 497 
John, 30, 47, 54, 



499. 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 

557 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 
Banks, 

499. 
Banks, 
Banks, 



^ ^_ ,,.„., .. 255, 

447, 449, '477, 478, 495- 496 
498, 499, 500, 501, 608, 647, 

John T., 497 

Jonathan, 425, 500 

Joseph, Captain, 92, 496, 498 

Joseph, 51, 129, 132, 447, 495, 

497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 609 

Joseph E., 497 

Joshua, 129, 133, 498 
, Keziah, 425 
, Levi, 500 
, Louisa O., 498 
, Lydia, 447, 497, 498, 499, 500, 

, Margaret, 497, 500 

, Margaret P., 500 

, Marietta, 498 

, Mark, 359, 497 

, Martha, 496, 497, 498, 500 

Mary, 425, 495, 496, 497, 498, 

501, 609 
, Mary Ann, 499, 500 

Mary Jane, 500 

Obadiah, 447, 496, 498, 501, 

Obadiah, Jr., 129, 133 
Ophelia A., 498 
Parmelia, 500 
Phebe, 496 
Polly, 500 

Rachel, 425, 498, 499, 500 
Rebecca, 498 
Rosanna, 500 
Rufus L., 500 
Ruth, 498 
Sally, 500 

Samuel, 447, 449, 467, 498, 
500, 501, 557 

Sarah, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500 
Sarah C, 498 



Banks, Susan F., 500 
Banks, Susannah, 500, 501 
Banks, Theodora, 498 
Banks, Vashti, 499 
Banks, Warren, 497 
Banks, William, 496, 500 
Banks, WilHam A., 498 
Banks, WiUiam E., 500 
Banks, WiUiam H., 497 
Banks, WiUiam O., 498 
Banks, WiUiam W., 496 
Barber, James, 557 
Barber, John, 276 
Barbour, Phipps, 448 
Bard, Robert, 75 
Baremore, Amy, 611 
Baremore, Henry, 448 
Barker, Emmett, 257 
Barley, David, 73 
Barlow, Deborah, 36 
Barlow, Smith, 584 
Barmore, John B., 250 
Barnes, Charles, 345 
Barnes, John, Lieutenant, 71 
Barnes, Joseph, 79 
Barnes, J. Horace, Rev., 430 
Barnes, R. H., Rev., 420 
Barnes, Thomas, 71 
Barnet, Jeremiah, 81 
Barney, Lewis W., Rev., 505 
Barnharm, Nathan, 79 
Barnhart, J. C, Rev., 428 
Barnite, William, 76 
Barnum, Abigail, 524 
Barnum, Bunel, 81 
Barnum, Nathan, 81 
Barrett, Eliza, 425 
Barrett, Henry, 425 
Barrett, John D., 397 
Barrett, Patrick, 240, 250 
Barrows, Walter H., Rev., 407 
Bartholomew, Adam, 219 
Barton, Hannah, 663 
Barton, Joseph, 416 
Barton, Joseph, Jr., 69 
Barton, Lewis, 578, 663 
Bartow, Peter, 83 
Bartram, O., 264 
Bassett, Elizabeth, 546 
Bassett, Michael, 448 
Bassett, Samuel, 669 
Bastow, Jonathan, Rev., 425 
Batcheller, W. T., Colonel, 252 
Bates, Abraham, 73, 76 
Bates, Deborah, 611 
Bates, Ebenezer, 76, 124 
Bates, Elizabeth, 448 
Bates, John, 656 
Bates, Mindwell, 656 
Bates, Samuel, 570 



Index to Persons 



703 



Bates, Sarah, 570, 611 
Bath, Asther, 124 
Bath, Ebenezer, 124 
Bauck, Theodore, Rev., 440 
Baulden, EHzabeth, 448 

Baxter, , Lieutenant, 17 

Baxter, David, 79 
Baxter, George, 215 
Baxter, John, 448, 527 
Bayne, J. S., Rev., 404 
Beach, J. W., Rev., 433 
Beardsley, John, 79, 83 
Beardsley, Nathan, 448 
Beardsley, WilUam, 448, 478 
Beam, George E., 396 

Beauregard, , General, 233 

Beay, Isaac, 73 
Beay, Peter, 71 
Becker, Henry E., 240 
Bedient, John, 605 
Beekman, Mary, 579 

Beers, , Miss, 413 

Beers, J., Rev., 329 

Beers, James, 448 

Beers, Jesse, 76 

Beers, J. H., 659 

Beers, Stephen, 531 

Belcher, Alethina, 371 

Belcher, Ann A., 371, 381 

Belcher, Clarissa, 371 

Belcher, Desire, 370 

Beleher, EHsha, M.D., 127, 370, 378, 

379>38i 
Belcher, Elisha R., M.D., 371 
Belcher, Elizabeth M., 371 
Belcher, Lydia K., 371, 378, 380 
Belcher, Mary, 371 
Belcher, vSarah B., 371, 380 
Belcher, William, Colonel, 370 
Belcher, William N., 371 
Belding, Gideon, 647 

Bell, , 659 

Bell, Edward L., Rev., 44 
Bell, Eunice, 675 
Bell, Goodman, 315 
Bell, Julia E., 155, 573 
Bell, Marv, 681 
Bell, Mercy, 568 
Bell, Rebecca, 568 
Bell, Susannah, 680 
Bell, Thaddeus, 573 
Bellamy, Martha, 657 
Bellamy, Matthias, 448 
Bender, PhiUp, 439 

Benedict, , 499 

Benedict, Abner, Rev., 404 
Benedict, Abraham, 448, 598 
Benedict, Charles, 583 
Benedict, Elias C, 260, 335, 339, 353 
Benedict, John, 453 



Benedict, Matthew, 71 

Benedict, Thomas, 448, 467 

Bennett, Ebenezer, 448 

Bennett, Emma, 521 

Bennett, Gabriel, 81 

Bennett, James, 79 

Bennett, John, 215 

Bennett, Moses, 81 

Bennett, Stephen, 83 

Bennett, Thomas, 448 

Bennett, William, 448 

Benson, D. Olyphant, Captain, 249 

Benson, John, 137 

Benson, Maria, 530 

Bergin, Ellen, 371 

Bergin, Patrick, 371 

Bergin, Thomas J., M.D., 371 

Berkemeyer, Herman, Rev., 439 

Berry, Charles, 257 

Berry, W. N., Rev., 443 

Bethel, Thomas W., Rev., 430 

Betts, Aaron, 502 

Betts, Abraham, 502 

Betts, Anne, 502, 503 

Betts, Burwell, 502 

Betts, Caroline, 502, 545 

Betts, Carroll S., 503 

Betts, Charles M., 503 

Betts, Daniel, 501, 502 

Betts, Edward S., 503 

Betts, Elizabeth, 502, 642 

Betts, Emily, 503 

Betts, Ezer, 83 

Betts, Frederick, 502, 545 

Betts, Frederick H., 501 

Betts, Frederick W., 503 

Betts, George L., 503 

Betts, Gideon, 502 

Betts, Hannah, 501, 502, 503. 545 

Betts, Hannah H., 503 

Betts, Harry F., 503 

Betts, Henrietta, 502 

Betts, James, 501 

Betts, John, 501, 502 

Betts, Joseph, 502 

Betts, Leland P., 503 

Betts, Leonard J., 503 

Betts, Lucy, 502 

Betts, Mary, 501, 502 

Betts, Mary W., 503 

Betts, Matthew, 502 

Betts, Nathan, 71 

Betts, Peter, 139 

Betts, Philer, 502 

Betts, Ruah, 502 

Betts, Samuel, 501 

Betts, Sarah, 501, 502 

Betts, Silas, 88, 136, 448, 502, 503 

Betts, Silas, Jr., 123 

Betts, Silas H., 503 



704 



Index to Persons 



Betts, Stephen, 501 
Betts, Thomas, 501, 502, 642 
Betts, Timothy, 502 
Betts, Walter, 503 
Betts, Willard B., 503 
Betts, William W., 503 
Bevalot, James, 448 
Bevelot, John P., 669 
Bient, William, Rev., 420 
Bing, Charles, 224 
Birch, Silas, 667 
Bird, William, 240 
Birdsall, EUzabeth, 634 
Birdsall, James, 250 
Birdsall, Joseph, 667 
Birdsall, Samuel, 465 
Birge, Chester, Rev., 523 

Birney, , General, 235, 248 

Bishop, , Rev., 39 

Bishop, Alexander, 563 

Bishop, Benjamin, 448, 457, 475 

Bishop, Ehnor, 563 

Bishop, Isaac, 547 

Bishop, James E., 215 

Bishop, Mary, 574 

Bishop, Nathan, 540 

Bishop, Rebecca, 563 

Bishop, Silas, 563 

Bishop, Stephen, 563, 564 

Bishop, William H., 215 

Bissell, George, 491 

Bissell, S. B. S., Rev., 266, 404, 413 

Bixby, Joseph E., 240 

Blackman, , Captain, 277 

Blackman, , 151 

Blackman, Hannah, 603 
Blackman, James, 448 
Blackman, Josiah, 509 
Blackman, Sarah, 655 
Blake, Henriette, 503 
Blake, Lillie D., 286 
Blake, William, 81, 83 
Blancher, Jacob, 135 
Blanck, Elsie, 515 
Blanck, Jurian, 515 
Blodgett, Jonathan, 189 
Blood, John, Rev., 412 
Bloodgood, John, Rev., 427, 431 
Bloomer, Esther, 527 
Bloomer, Gilbert, 648 
Bloomer, Robert, 631 
Bloomfield, Samuel, 257 
Bloomfield, Sarah, 642 
Bloomfield, William, 642 
Boal, John, 387 
Boardman, EHzabeth, 674 
Boardman, Israel, 674 
Bodenwein, Theodore, 53 
Boerner, Emil C, 351 
Bogardus, Everardus, 7, 9 



Boles, John, 254 

Bolt, Richard, 448 

Bolton, C. W., Rev., 420, 665 

Bond, Michael, 81 

Booth, Benjamin N., Lieutenant, 292 

Booth, Byron, 219 

Booth, Daniel, 250 

Booth, Edmund, 240 

Booth, R. WiUiam, 250 

Boss, Frances R., 366 

Bostwick, Ephraim, Rev., 404, 448, 

474 
Bostwick, Hannah, 398 
Bostwick, Merryday, 398, 448 
Boswell, WilUam S., Lieutenant, 291 
Boswell, William S., 271 
Bouton, Abigail, 670 
Bouton, Eleazer, 646 
Bouton, EUzabeth, 670 
Bouton, John, 646, 670 
Bouton, Mary, 602, 670 
Bouton, Mercy, 602 
Bouton, Samuel, 583 
Bowen, J., Rev., 428 
Bowen, P., 652 

Bowers, , 570 

Bowers, Hannah, 595 

Bowers, John, Lieutenant, 7, 3i> 32. 

34, 38, 47, 48, 92, 289, 449. 518, 

537, 570, 595, 618 
Bowers, Nathaniel, Rev., 42, 43, 44, 

404, 449 
Bowers, Nathaniel, 449, 484 
Bowman, Augusta J., 377 

Boyce, , 578 

Boyd, Clarence, 389 
Boyd, John, 449 
Boyd, Peter, 449, 481 
Boyle, Charles C., 371 
Boyle, Isabelle S., 371 
Boyle, Stacey W., M.D., 371 
Boyle, WilHam, 227, 254 
Boylston, Charles W., Rev., 422 
Bradley, EUzabeth, 565 
Bradley, Jabez, 81 
Bradley, Mary, 669 
Bradley, PhiUp B., Colonel, 146 
Bradley, WilUam, 669 
Brady, Allen G., Major, 246 

Brewer, , 498 

Brewster, Chauncey B., Rev., 400, 

423 
Bridge, Christopher, Rev., 415, 4^9 
Briggs, Caleb, 131, 134 
Briggs, Daniel, Captain, 92 
Briggs, Daniel, 66, 574 
Briggs, George W., 384 
Briggs, Joshua, 500 
Briggs, Martha, 595 
Briggs, Nathaniel, 131, 660 



Index to Persons 



705 



Briggs, William H., 586 
Brill, Thorn, 579 
Brinkerhoff, Abraham, 355 
Brinley, Edward H., 421 

Brinsmade, , 410 

Broach, John C, 277 
Broadwell, Homer J., 409 

Brock, , General, 326 

Broderick, John, 390 
Bromley, Hannah, 626 
Brooks, Charles A., 371 
Brooks, Fanny P., 371 
Brooks, Frank T., M.D., 371 
Brooks, Jonathan, 71 
Brouner, Jacob H., Rev., 425 
Brower, Henry, 387 

Brown, , 500, 522, 532, 679 

Brown, Aaron, 506 

Brown, Abigail, 505, 508, 509, 510 

Brown, Abraham, 596, 597 

Brown, Alexander, 256 

Brown, Amos, Rev., 443 

Brown, Amy M., 632 

Brown, Ananias, 509 

Brown, Andrew, 507 

Brown, Aner, 505 

Brown, Ann, 505 

Brown, Anna, 508 

Brown, Anne, 505, 633 

Brown, Benjamin, 505 

Brown, Beny, 508 

Brown, Bezaleel, Captain, 140, 142, 

509 
Brown, Bezaleel, Lieutenant, 92, 123, 

124, 136 
Brown, Bezaleel, 58, 75, 88, 118, 121, 

509 
Brown, Caleb, 505 
Brown, Camilla, 553 
Brown, Caroline, 580 
Brown, Charity, 510 
Brown, Charlotte, 506, 576 
Brown, Christopher, 506 
Brown, Daniel, 126, 505 
Brown, David, Lieutenant, 171 
Brown, David, 128, 506, 508, 509, 

580, 591 
Brown, Deborah, 532 
Brown, Deliverance, 447, 449, 483, 

504, 506 
Brown, Deliverance, Jr., 447 •• 
Brown, Ebenezer, 504, 506, 510, 558 
Brown, Edmund, Ensign, 92, 106 
Brown, Edmund, 509, 658 
Brown, Eleazer, 507, 508, 683 
Brown, Electa M., 588 
Brown, EHzabeth, 504, 505, 506, 508, 

510, 614, 666 
Brown, Enos, 508 
Brown, Esther, 505 

45 



Brown, Eunice, 506, 508, 685 

Brown, Eunice A., 596 

Brown, Francis, 507, 508, 509, 514 

Brown, Frederick, 506 

Brown, F. M., Major, 264 

Brown, George, 218 

Brown, Gilbert, 505 

Brown, Goodwin, 503 

Brown, Hackaliah, Major, 505 

Brown, Hackaliah, 503, 504, 505, 633 

Brown, Hannah, 505, 506, 508, 509, 

633. 666 
Brown, Henrietta, 591 
Brown, Henrietta A., 650 
Brown, Hester, 505 
Brown, Isaac, 505, 506, 509 
Brown, Jacob, 508 
Brown, James, 132, 137, 216, 509 
Brown, Jemima, 508 
Brown, John, 128, 132, 133, 139, 506, 

507- 508, 509, 510, 614 
Brown, John fl., 240 
Brown, Jonathan, Rev., 543 
Brown, Jonathan, 126, 185, 449, 470, 

507, 509 
Brown, Joseph, 505, 507, 508 
Brown, Joseph, Jr., 526 
Brown, Josiah, 506, 509 
Brown, Justus, 535 
Brown, Keziah, 508 
Brown, Levi, 509 
Brown, Levina, 505 
Brown, Lewis, 505 
Brown, Lucy, 506 
Brown, Lydia, 507 
Brown, Major, 506, 588 
Brown, Margaret, 505 
Brown, Martha, 505, 508 
Brown, Mary, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 

509, 573. 579. 651. 666 
Brown, Mary W., 614 
Brown, Mead, 505 
Brown, Mehitable, 505 
Brown, Mercy, 504, 506, 508 
Brown, Merritt, 506 
Brown, Nathan, 137, 505, 508, 509, 

552 
Brown, Nathan, Jr., 140 
Brown, Nathaniel, 126, 505, 508, 509 
Brown, Nehemiah, Lieutenant, 92 
Brown, Nehemiah, 51, 424, 449, 505, 

506, 594, 634 
Brown, Nehemiah, Jr., 123 
Brown, Nicholas, 185 
Brown, Park, 506 
Brown, Peter, 449, 503, 504, 508, 595, 

630, 666 
Brown, Phebe, 506, 510 
Brown, Prudence, 508 
Brown, P. R., Rev., 428 



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Index to Persons 



Brown, Rachel, 506, 507, 509 
Brown, Rebecca, 504, 505, 508, 509. 

552, 631 
Brown, Robert, 189 
Brown, Roger, Lieutenant, 93 
Brown, Roger, 118,119,122, 126, 171, 

507 
Brown, Ruth, 508, 509, 526, 538, 

609 

Brown, Sally, 591 
^*«*' Brown, Samuel, 447, 505. 5o6, 553, 

604, 614, 633, 642, 666, 685, 686 
Brown, Sarah, 504, 505, 508, 509, 510, 

533. 551. 609, 630, 666 
Brown, Sarah J., 520 
Brown, Sherman, 510 
Brown, Solomon, 138 
Brown, Sophia, 506 
Brown, Squire, 508 
Brown, Stephen, 138, 505 
Brown, Susannah, 505 
Brown, Sylvanus, 508, 509 
Brown, Tamazen, 505 
Brown, Thomas, 79, 128, 136, 137, 

503. 504. 505. 506, 509, 510, 558 
Brown, Titus, 131, 134 
Brown, Unica, 595 
Brown, Walter, 505 
Brown, William, 505, 509, 631 
Brown, WiUiam S., 429, 586 
Brown, William W., 299 
Brown, Zebediah, 507 
Brownell, George, 585 
Browning, James, 251 
Bruce, Robert, 511 
Bruce, Robert M., 208, 209, 212, 282- 

284, 353. 359. 382 
Bruce, Sarah E., 282, 283 

Brundage, , 581 

Brundage, Abigail, 496, 505 
Brundage, Abraham, 449 
Brundage, Absalom, 505 
Brundage, Allen, 586 
Brundage, Bertha, 510, 511, 595 
Brundage, Charles, 128 
Brundage, Daniel, 510 
Brundage, David, 506 
Brundage, Deborah, 510 
Brundage, Ehzabeth, 662 
Brundage, Gilbert, 505, 510 
Brundage, Hackaliah, 505 
Brundage, Hannah, 510 
Brundage, James, 684 
Brundage, Joanna, 497, 577 
Brundage, John, 510, 595, 630, 645, 

682 
Brundage, Jonah, 532 
Brundage, Jonathan, 446, 510 
Brundage, Joseph, 449, 497, 510, 617 
Brundage, Joshua, 510 



Brundage, Mary, 505, 510, 613, 630, 

684 
Brundage, Nathan, 449 
Brundage, Nehemiah, 505 
Brundage, Posthume, 510, 511 
Brundage, Rachel, 510, 632, 682 
Brundage, Rosina, 529 
Brundage, Ruth, 511, 645 
Brundage, Samuel, 424 
Brundage, Sarah, 505, 576 
Brundage, Thomas, 250 
Brundage, William, 424 
Brundage, Zebediah, 505 
Brunson, Jabez, 71 

Brush, , 641 

Brush, Abigail, 513, 597 

Brush, Amos M., Colonel, 290, 512 

Brush, Ann, 514, 591 

Brush, Anna, 508 

Brush, Anne, 512, 513 

Brush, Ard, 513 

Brush, Asa H., 524 

Brush, Augustus M., 361 

Brush, Benjamin, Captain, 513 

Brush, Benjamin, 61, 66, 134, 151, 

449, 511, 512, 513, 514, 641 
Brush, Benjamin P., 513 
Brush, Betsy, 514 
Brush, Betty, 512 
Brush, Catharine C, 513 
Brush, Charles, 513 
Brush, Christina, 498, 514 
Brush, David, 372, 514 
Brush, Deborah, 512, 513, 524 
Brush, Edmond, 514 
Brush, Edmund B., 513 
Brush, Edward, Captain, 93 
Brush, Edward, 57, 61, 296, 383, 393, 

511, 512, 514, 533, 591, 594 
Brush, Elizabeth, 511, 533 
Brush, Elizabeth S., 375, 513 
Brush, Elma, 591 
Brush, Elma C, 512 
Brush, Emily C, 513 
Brush, Emily I., 512 
Brush, Fanny, 512 
Brush, George E., 388, 389 
Brush, George W., 282, 283, 334, 513 
Brush, Hannah, 512, 513, 522 
Brush, Harriet, 513 
Brush, Henry, 513, 514 
Brush, Henry L., 512 
Brush, Henry M., 359 
Brush, Hester, 511 
Brush, Jacob, 511 
Brush, James, 514, 589, 641 
Brush, James H., M.D., 372 
Brush, Joel L., 512 
Brush, John, 66, 449, 483, 511, 513, 

514 



Index to Persons 



707 



Brush 

Brush 
512, 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 

591 

Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 

594 

Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 
Brush 



Jonathan, 514 

Joseph, 190, 354, 375, 397, 
572, 588 

Joseph E., 353, 512 
Joseph E. B., 513 
Joshua, 449, 511 
Julia E., 513 
Laura, 514 
Laura A., 513 
LiUian, 512 
Lucy A., 513 
Martha, 511, 514 
Mary, 151, 511, 512, 513, 514 
Mary A., 512, 513, 514, 591 
Mary E., 513 
Mary L., 513, 572 
Piatt, 513 
Rachel, 513, 514 
Rachel A., 513 
Ralph E., 361 
Rebecca, 511, 514 
Rebecca A., 512 
Richard, 511 
Richard E., 512 
Robert, 511 
Sally, 514 

Samantha, 512, 513 
Samuel, 513, 514, 641 
Sarah, 361, 511, 512, 513, 572, 

Sarah A., 376, 588 

Sarah F., 513, 514 

Semantha R., 512 

S. Augustus, 512 

Shadrach M., 344, 354, 512, 



Shubal, 181, 513, 514 

Sophia, 372 

Stella P., 513, 588 

Stephen, 66, 450, 451, 514 

Susannah, 511 

Theodore, 513 

Thomas, 511 

Timothy, 511 

Walter W., 512 

William, 513 

William P., 512 
Bruynsen, Hage, 515 

Buckingham, , Governor, 243 

Buckingham, Stephen, 516 

Buckley, , 682 

Buckley, Andrew, 71 
Buckley, Edmund, 224 
Buckley, Morgan G., 277 
Buckley, Sarah, 508 
Buckley, Thomas, 224 
Budd, Ann, 515 
Budd, EUsha, 515 
Budd, Gilbert, 515 
Budd, Hannah, 633 



Budd, Henry, 635 

Budd, Jane, 569 

Budd, Joan, 514 

Budd, John, 507, 514, 515, 569 

Budd, Jonathan, 515 

Budd, Joseph, 450, 514, 515, 633 

Budd, Judith, 507, 514 

Budd, Katharine, 514 

Budd, Mary, 514, 515 

Budd, Sarah, 515, 633, 637 

Budd, Tamar, 515 

Budd, Underbill, 515 

Buel, Abigail, 625 

Buel, M. B., Rev., 428 

Buel, Marcus D., Rev., 428 

Buffett, Eloise L., 572 

Buffett, Piatt, Rev., 404, 408, 572 

Bull, Abigail, 625 

Bull, Richard B., Rev., 412 

Bull, Richard B., 597 

Bullard, Richard, 450, 483 

Bullis, John, 450 

Bullis, Thomas, 450, 470 

Bumstead, John, 123 

Buncume, Cornelius, 450 

Bunker, Margaret, 661 

Bunnell, Benjamin, 551 

Burch, Valentine, 71 

Burdsall, EUwood, 349, 350 

Burdsall, R. H., 350 

Burhorns, Henry, 79 

Burke, Joanna, 372 

Burke, John J., Rev., 443 

Burke, William, M.D., 372 

Burley, Ebenezer, 69 

Burley, Henry, 190 

Burley, Isaac, 123, 124 

Burley, John, 139, 416, 450, 481 

Burley, Samuel, 450, 459, 639 

Burling, Ann, 668 

Burhng, Edward, 537 

Burling, Phebe, 668 

Burnes, Charles D., 361 

Burnes, Grace L., 361 

Burnes, Harvey E., 361 

Burnett, Harry, 271 

Burnett, John, 250 

Burnham, Cornelius, 557 

Burns, Alfred, 250 

Burns, EUza A., 649 

Burns, Erastus, 240 

Burns, James, 257 

Burns, James H., 240, 276 

Burns, Leander, 441 

Burns, Lyman, 240 

Burns, WiUiam A., 240 

Burnside, , General, 228, 245 

Burr, Andrew, Colonel, 87 
Burr, Daniel, 501, 648 
Burr, Warren H., 266 



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Index to Persons 



Burrell, , 542 

Burrell, John, 450, 479 

Burtus, Peter A., 63, 186 

Burwell, Hannah, 502 

Burwell, John, 502 

Bush, , 601 

Bush, Abraham, 516, 614 

Bush, Albert, 515 

Bush, Albertus, 516 

Bush, Albertus C, 515 

Bush, Andrew L., 517 

Bush, Ann, 516 

Bush, Anna M., 515 

Bush, Anne, 517 

Bush, Bartholomew, 128, 133 

Bush, Bernardus, 516 

Bush, Casparus, 515 

Bush, Charity, 516 

Bush, Charlotte, 516, 517 

Bush, Cornelia, 515 

Bush, David, 57, 58, 89, 116, 136, 
"" 167, 175. 345. 372, 450. 516 

Bush, David W., 189 

Bush, Dorothy, 515 

Bush, Elizabeth, 516, 517 

Bush, Fanny, 516 

Bush, Gerrits, 515 

Bush, Gilbert, 517 

Bush, Grace, 175, 5^6 

Bush, Hendrick, 515 

Bush, Henry, 61, 449, 450. 5^6 

Bush, Hillegond, 515 

Bush, H. Hobart, 517 

Bush, Isaac, 516 

Bush, Jabez, 124, 128, 133 

Bush, John, 51. 83, 450, 516 

Bush, Joshua, 515 

Bush, Jurian, 515 

Bush, Justus, 60, 128, 133, 288, 373, 
378, 447, 448, 450, 451, 453. 460, 
470, 473, 474, 477. 485. 486, 488, 
515,516 ^ ^ 

Bush, Justus L., 397, 418, 516 

Bush, Justus R., 516 

Bush, Martin, 81, 83 

Bush, Mary, 516, 517 

Bush, Nelson, 418 

Bush, Newberry D., 517 

Bush, Ralph I., M.D., 372, 516 

Bush, Rebecca, 517 

Bush, Ruth, 378, 516, 614 

Bush, Sally, 516 

Bush, Samuel, 69, 137. 392. 515, 516 

Bush, Sarah, 372, 516, 517 

Bush, William, M.D., 152, 373, 516 

Bush, William, 63, 517 

Bush, William L., 517 

Bushnell, Francis, 646 

Bushnell, George, Rev., 407 

Bushnell, Hannah, 606 



Bushnell, S., Rev., 428 

Butler, Abigail, 595, 610 

Butler, B. F., General, 231, 234 

Butler, Charles F., Rev., 404 

Butler, Ebenezer, 544 

Butler, Elizabeth, 600 

Butler, John, Dr., 450, 483, 648 

Butler, Mary, 544 

Butler, Rebecca, 504, 655 

Butler, Thomas, 677 

Butler, Walter, 31, 47, 54. 45o, 504. 

595, 600, 610 
Butterworth, David, 254 
Buttner, William H., Rev., 439 
Button, JuUa A., 301, 303 
Button, Philander, 208, 209, 212, 301, 

413 

Butts, Daniel B., Rev., 408 
Buxton, Clement, 451, 504. 595 
Buxton, Elizabeth, 508, 577 
Buxton, Eunice, 643 
Buxton, Mercy, 537 
Buxton, Noah, 451 
Buxton, Samuel, 604 
Buxton, Sarah, 565, 595 
Buxton, Unica, 595 
Buxton, Unity, 504 
Byas, Edward, 257 



Cable, Elizabeth, 647 
Cable, John, Jr., 647 
Cadey, Malachi, 83 
Cadwell, Charles K., 220 
Cain, John, 216 
Calderwood, C. M., Rev., 414 
Calhoun, J. Gilbert, 309 
Callahan, Robert, 242 
Callary, Morris, 69 
Calliff, J. Francis, 273 
Callory, Thomas, 66 
Cameron, Charles, 302 

Camp, , Adjutant, 230 

Camp, Abraham, 76 

Cande, Mary, 570 

Candee, Content, 626 

Candee, Nehemiah, 626 

Candee, Susan, 626 

Candes, John D., 266 

Cane, Michael, 254 

Canedy, Philip, 76 

Caner, Henry, Rev., 417 

Canfield, Asahel, 585 

Canfield, Catherine, 585 

Canfield, Ezekiel, Rev., 428, 430, 

431. 432 
Canfield, Silas, 124 
Cannon, John, 254 
Cantrell, William, 345 



Index to Persons 



709 



Carey, George D., 390 
Carhart, Ann E., 685 
Carhart, John, 451 
Carhart, Thomas, 633 
Carle, Jonathan, 451 
Carlong, Stephen, 124 
Carmichael, George E., 396, 401 
Carpenter, Andrew, 128 
Carpenter, Coles, Rev., 428, 430, 432 
Carpenter, Daniel, 181 
Carpenter, Elisha, 277, 531 
Carpenter, Elizabeth, 613, 666 
Carpenter, Esther, 667 
Carpenter, George, 181 
Carpenter, John, 666 
Carpenter, Matilda, 666 
Carpenter, Phebe F., 666 ^ 
Carpenter, Ruth, 181 
Carpenter, Thomas, 255 
Carpenter, Zeno, 181 
Carr, Emma T., 653 
Carroll, Edward J., 390 
Carroll, James M., 435 
Carroll, Michael, 215 

Carter, , 342 

Carter, Ebenezer, 581 

Carter. Hannah, 581 

Carter, Joseph, 347 

Carter, Mary, 581 

Cashmer, Frederic, 258 

Castalow, James, 76 

Castell, Henry, 546 

Castien, Samuel, 79 

Castin, Isaac, 256 

Catlin, Lyman S., Lieutenant, 277 

Cavalier, Peter G., 515 

Cavanaugh, Peter, 69 

Caxton, Samuel, 451 

Chaffee, Gilderoy, 530 

Chamberlain, P., Rev., 428 

Chamberlain, Robert L., 389 

Chamberlain, WilUam S., 240 

Chambers, John, 451 

Chapel, Samuel, 71 

Chapin, W. S., 264 

Chapman, Barnabas, 83 

Chapman, Daniel, 73, 81, 83 

Chapman, Edwin N., 261, 262, 263, 

296 
Chapman, EHsha, 71 
Chapman, Jeremiah, 131, 134, 542 
Chapman, John, 507, 542 
Chapman, Martha, 507 
Chapman, Thomas, 525 
Chapman, Titus, 124 
Chapman, Widow, 451 
Chappel, Nathaniel, 83 
Chard, Ludlow L., 240 
Chard, Samuel S., 250 
Charles II, 4, 89, 307 



Charles, James, 393 
Charlton, Richard, 416 
Chase, Isaac, 83 
Chase, Joshua, 83 

Chatfield, , Adjutant, 248 

Cheney, Nathan G., Rev., 435 
Chester, Colby M., Jr., 383 
Childs, Frank S., Rev., 401, 404 
Childs, Frederick W., 257 
Choate, Washington, Rev., 278, 393, 

407 
Choster, Daniel, 66 
Clapp, Benjamin, 451 
Clapp, Cornbury, 451 
Clapp, Dorcas, 666 
Clapp, Elias, 451 
Clapp, Gillson, 451, 457 
Clapp, John, 88, 451, 453, 457- 475. 

486, 666, 680 
Clapp, Phebe, 666 

Clark, , 537 

Clark, Alexander, 373 

Clark, Andrew, 140 

Clark, Cassandra, 373 

Clark, Daniel, 544 

Clark, Darius, 619 

Clark, David H., 359 

Clark, Deborah A. E., 649 

Clark, EUphalet, 451 

Clark, Ephraim, 451 

Clark, Frederick G., Rev., 407 

Clark, George P., 389 

Clark, Hannah, 670 

Clark, Henry, 684 

Clark, Huldah, 629 

Clark, James, 66, 123, 128, 134, 451 

Clark, John A., M.D., 373 

Clark, Lewis, 218 

Clark, Lockwood, 352 

Clark, Lorin, Rev., 430, 432 

Clark, Mary, 544 

Clark, Michael, 250 

Clark, Noah P., 627 

Clark, Robert, 140, 334, 622 

Clark, Theodocius, Rev., 430, 432 

Clason, Daniel S., 566 

Clason, Waitstill, 565 

Clausen, G C, 653 

Clauson, Stephen, 451 

Clay, Athelene, 534 

Clay, Humphrey, 534 

Clemens, Alfred, 629 

Clement, Francis, 81, 83 

Clement, Hester, 557 

Clements, Hannah, 602 

Clemmans, James, 128, 132 

Cleveland, , 628 

Clinton, , 154 

Cliven, Jonathan, 66 
Clock, Abraham, 671 



710 



Index to Persons 



Clock, John, 605 




Close, Jane, 521 




Clock, Nathaniel, 573 




Close, Jerusha, 522 




Clock, Peter, 83 




Close, Jesse, 525, 526 




Close, Aaron, 521, 522 




Close, John, Rev., 526 




Close, Abigail, 524, 526, 598 




Close, John, 395, 451, 452, 453, 


519. 


Close, Abraham, 373, 520, 521, 


527- 


525. 530 




576, 586 




Close, John A., 528 




Close, Abraham H., 522 




Close, John F., 292 




Close, Adelaide, 521 




Close, John T., 526 




Close, Ahasuerus F., 528 




Close, Jonah M., 529 




Close, Allen, 528 




Close, Jonathan, Ensign, 93 




Close, Allen H., 353, 524 




Close, Jonathan, 452, 523, 527, 


529 


Close, Amzi, 525 




Close, Jonathan A., 431, 523 




Close, Ann J., 528 




Close, Joseph, 131, 451, 452, 


465. 


Close, Annie H., 521 




517-518, 519, 520, 598,600 




Close, Benjamin, 56, 451, 452, 


453, 


Close, Joseph, Jr., 452, 511 




486, 508, 519, 526, 527, 528, 


530, 


Close, Joseph H., 522 




^591 




Close, Josephine, 520 




Close, Bethia, 523, 589, 590 




Close, Lockwood R., 524 




Close, Charlotte, 410 




Close, Lydia, 519, 530 




Close, Daniel, 529 




Close, Mahala, 528 




Close, David, Rev., 526 




Close, Maria, 513 




Close, David, 521, 522, 527, 528 




Close, Marilda, 525 




Close, Deborah, 520, 522, 525, 


526, 


Close, Martha, 524, 527 




528 




Close, Mary, 373, 513, 517, 518 


520, 


Close, Ebenezer, 525, 528 




522, 524, 527, 530, 561, 586 




Close, Edward, 521, 522 




Close, Mary A., 521, 528, 529, 586 


Close, Edward B., 521 




Close, Mary E., 520 




Close, Edwin T., 522 




Close, Mary J., 520 




Close, Eliphalet W., 526 




Close, Mary L., 521 




Close, Elizabeth, 517, 518, 519, 


520, 


Close, Mary R., 524 




522, 523, 524, 527, 530 




Close, Mercy, 524 




Close, Ehzabeth C, 596 




Close, Mindwell, 525, 526 




Close, Ella M., 521 




Close, Nancy, 524, 590 




Close, Elnathan, 134, 158, 520 


527 


Close, Nathaniel, 57, 59, 76, 333 


525. 


Close, Elsie M., 529 




526, 527, 530, 601 




Close, Emily A., 521 




Close, Odle, Captain, 122, 128, 


522 


Close, Erastus S., M.D., 529 




Close, Odle, Lieutenant, 133 




Close, Eunice, 520, 522, 524, 585 




Close, Odle, 118, 512, 522, 523, 


589, 


Close, Ezekiel, 624 




590, 596 




Close, Frank, 521 




Close, Peter, 530 




Close, George, 528 




Close, Peter M., 529 




Close, George B., 520 




Close, Phebe, 519, 525 




Close, George C, 522 




Close, Phetti place, 517 




Close, George W., 524 




Close, Philander, 527 




Close, Gideon, 522, 523, 594 




Close, Polly, 528 




Close, Gilbert, 410, 523, 560, 57 




Close, Polly A., 521 




Close, Goodman, 517, 518, 595 




Close, Prewy, 520 




Close, Hannah, 451, 517, 518, 


519- 


Close, Rachel, 522, 525, 526, 600 


523. 525. 526, 528, 529, 595, 


596- 


Close, Rebecca, 526, 640 




599. 642 




Close, Reuben, 452, 527 




Close, Harvey, 521 




Close, Reuben H., 529 




Close, Henry, 521, 528 




Close, Rhesa, 529 




Close, Henry M., 528, 529 




Close, Ruf us W., 528 




Close, Horace, 523 




Close, Ruth, 173, 452, 519, 522, 


527. 


Close, Isaac, 525 




528, 530, 599 




Close, Isaac 0., Lieutenant, 239 




Close, Samuel, 128, 133, 138, 


301, 


Close, Jabez, 527 




354, 451, 522, 526, 527, 528 


529 


Close, Jackson, 522 




Close, Samuel G., 520 




Close, Jacob V., 264 




Close, Samuel J., 528 





Index to Persons 



711 



Close, Sarah, 452, 519, 520, 522, 525, 

526, 527, 529, 620 
Close, Shadrach, 522, 524 
Close, Shadrach M., 522 
Close, Solomon, Lieutenant, 93 
Close, Solomon, 452, 486, 520, 524 
Close, Sophronia A., 530 
Close, Stephen, 527 
Close, Thomas, M.D., 373, 521, 559 
Close, Thomas, 31, 33, 34, 39, 47, 52, 

54. 173. 451-452, 458, 517- 518, 519, 

526, 599, 642 
Close, Thomas, Sr., 42, 54, 405 
Close, Thomas, Jr., 54, 452 
Close, Tompkins, 513, 524, 526 
Close, Walter H., 521 
Close, William, 523, 529, 530 
Close, Zaccheus M., 529 
Close, Zachariah, 586 
Cobb, Darius, 286 
Cobb, Sanford H., Rev., 438 
Cochran, Samuel, Rev., 428, 430, 432 
Cock, George, 608 
Cock, Pieter, Lieutenant, 17 
Codhng, Robert, Rev., 430, 432 
Cody, James, Rev., 437 
Coe, Andrew, 452, 458 
Coe, Hannah, 510 

Coe, John, 22, 26, 448, 452, 460, 473 
Coe, Jonathan, 62, 122, 552 
Coe, Joseph, 73 
Coe, Noah, Rev., 407 
Coe, Reuben, 128, 132 
Coe, Robert, 7 
Coffin, Abram P., 256 
Coghlan, J. B., Admiral, 286 
Cogswell, Edward, 71 
Cole, Cain P., Rev., 444 
Coleman, J., Rev., 428 
Coley, Daniel, 496 
Coley, Peter, 647 
Coley, Sarah, 647 
Coll, Hezekiah, 81 
Collier, Nancy A., 528 

Collins, , 639 

Collins, John, 189, 257 
Collins, Thomas C, 250 
Colona, James W., Rev., 430 
Colton, Melzar, 664 
Colwell, George B., General, 273 
Colyer, Vincent, Colonel, 265, 268 
Combs, Charles, 226 
Comings, Harrison H., 250 
Comly, Samuel, 350 
Comly, W. S., 350 
Comstock, Hannah, 526 
Comstock, Silas, 217 
Comstock, Sophia, 530 
Conerey, Samuel, 136 
Conkey, Madeline, 372 



Conkey, Martha E., 375 

Conklin, , 532 

Conklin, Cornelius, 532 
Conklin, Deliverance, 138 
Conklin, Jacob, 123, 124 
Conklin, John, 511 
Conklin, Mary, 511, 532 
Conklin, Nevill, 655 
Conklin, Rebecca, 511 
ConkUn, Timothy, 66, 93 
Conklin, William, 496 
Conoly, Patrick, 81 
Conorey, Mary, 490 
Conover, James S., 272 
Conrey, Michael, 502 
Constable, William, 617 
Converse, Edmund C, 263 
Conway, Eugene, 388 
Cook, D wight W., 493 
Cook, EUzabeth A., 650 
Cooper, John, 124 
Corey, Johanna, 511 
Corkins, Sarah, 535 

Cornbury, , Governor, 415 

Cornell, Benjamin, 666 
Cornell, George L., 348 
Cornell, Joshua, 452, 456, 457 
Cornell, Mary, 655 
Cornell, Samuel, 453 
Cornell, Samuel G., 348, 422 
Corner, Charles P., Rev., 433 
Cornwell, Joshua, 452, 456 
Cornwell, Samuel, 451, 453 
Corse, Harriet, 521 
Corwin, Edward B., 597 
Corwin, George, 512 
Cory, Thomas, 66 
Cosher, Hezekiah, 73 

Cotant, , Rev., 428 

Couch, Charles, 584 

Couch, Franklin, 550 

Couch, Sally, 584 

Countryman, WilHam A., 266 

Cox, Henry, 341 

Cox, Robert, 340 

Cox, Walter H., 249 

Cox, William, 340 

Cozine, John R., 392 

Crab, Richard, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 289, 

314, 453. 471 
Craft, WiUiam H., 685 
Crague, John, 123 
Crane, EHjah, 489 
Crane, Lydia, 529 
Crawford, Henry P., 271 
Crawford, John, 61, 453 
Crawford, Joseph, Rev., 428 
Crawford, Thomas, 81 
Crazo, John, 124 
Cremin, D. J., Rev., 441 



1^2 



Index to Persons 



Crissy, Deborah, 537 
Crissy, Ebenezer, 73 
Crissy, Elizabeth, 606 
Crissy, Experience, 538 
Crissy, John, 606 
Crissy, Mary, 561 
Crissy, Prudence, 583 
Crissy, Sarah, 551 
Crissy, WiUiam, 573 
Cristy, Moses, 413 
Cromma, Archibald, 250 
Cromwell, James, 453 
Crooker, Moses, 506 
Crosby, Joshua, 525 

Cross, , 565 

Cross, Deborah, 603 
Cross, Hannah, 623, 673 
Cross, John, 66 

Cross, Nathaniel, 73, 81, 83, 603, 607, 
623, 673 

Crossman, , 639 

Crossman, Esther, 638 
Crudock, William, 139 
Cull, John, 242 
Cumisky, John, 250 
Cummins, Mary, 585 
Cunningham, James, 215 
Cunningham, John, 215 
Cuntz, Bernhard, Rev., 439 
Curtain, John, 83 
Cur ten, John, 81 

Curtis, , 329, 659 

Curtis, Julius B., 201, 202, 301, 361 
Curtis, Nicholas, 361 
Curtis, Sarah, 361 



D 



Dahnes, Benjamin, Rev., 430 
Dailey, Elizabeth, 496 
Daily, Samuel, 81 

Dally, , 567 

Dalton, Richard, 226 
Daly, Thomas, 242 
Daniels, B., Rev., 428 
Daniels, Thomas 453 
Daniels, William, 71, 132 
Dann, David, 76 
Dann, Horace, 619 
Dann, John, 552 
Darling, John, 448, 453 
Darling, Joseph, 453 

Darrow, , 531 

Darrow, Daniel, 129, 136 

Darsey, Thomas J., 389 

Dauchy, James, 76 

Davenport, Abraham, 85 

Davenport, Ebenezer, Rev., 404 

Davenport, Eliza, 517 

Davenport, John, Rev., 504, 531, 669 



Davenport, John, 44 
Davenport, Rhoda, 593 
David, Lockwood C, 436 
Davidson, Thomas, 225 
Davidson, William W., Rev., 413 
Davies, Ann, 533 
Davies, J. S., 533 
Davies, Lizzie J., 533 
Davies, Robert, Rev., 419 

Davis, , 502 

Davis, Abraham, 131 

Davis, Abraham B., 531 

Davis, Abram, 134 

Davis, Ann M., 531 

Davis, Anna, 530 

Davis, Arthur, 531 

Davis, Arthur E., Rev., 413 

Davis, Clarinda, 530 

Davis, Daniel, 531 

Davis, Edward D., 531 

Davis, EHsha, 181, 530, 531 

Davis, Elizabeth, 424, 530, 531 

Davis, Emeline I., 531 

Davis, George E., Rev., 437 

Davis, Hannah, 453 

Davis, Henry, 516, 531 

Davis, Hezekiah, 73 

Davis, Isaac, 139, 453 

Davis, Isabella, 530, 531 

Davis, John, 619 

Davis, Josiah, 531 

Davis, Josiah T., 531 

Davis, Laura, 531 

Davis, Martin, 190 

Davis, Mary, 531 

Davis, Nancy, 531 

Davis, P. A., Captain, 234 

Davis, Sally, 531 

Davis, Sarah, 619 

Davis, Silas, 197, 392, 418, 530, 531 

Davis, Simon J., 257 

Davis, Stephen, 122, 531 

Davis, Thomas, 530 

Davis, Thomas J., 531 

Davis, Walter, 530 

Davis, William, 531 

Davis, William B., 531 

Day, Benjamin, 416 

Day, D. E., Rev., 437 

Day, EUas, 128, 136 

Day, Robert E., 266 

Dayton, Abraham, 136, 532 

Dayton, Amy, 532, 533 

Dayton, Beriah, 532 

Dayton, Betsy, 532 

Dayton, Charles, 533 

Dayton, Charles A., 250 

Dayton, Charles H., 533 

Dayton, CUnton, 250 

Dayton, Daniel, 532 



Index to Persons 



713 



Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 
Dayton 



David, 532, 533, 579 

David 0., 533 

Deborah, 532 

Edith E., 533 

Elizabeth, 531, 532 

Esther, 532 

Ethel F., 533 

George, 353 

George H., 240, 533 

Gilbert W., 250 

Hannah, 532. 533 

Henry, 396, 397, 532, 533 

Jacob, 532, 533 

Jane, 532, 533 

Jasper, 533 

Jennie L., 533 

Jeremiah, 532 

Jesse, 532 

Joanna, 532 

John, 206, 211, 264, 282, 293, 



337. 353- 359. 397- 532, 533 
Dayton, Jonah, 124, 132 
Dayton, Jonathan, 532 
Dayton, Maria, 532 
Dayton, Martha, 532, 533, 579 
Dayton, Mary, 532, 533 
Dayton, Mary E., 533 
Dayton, Mary F., 533 
Dayton, Mehitable, 533 
Dayton, Nathan, 532 
Dayton, Phebe, 532 
Dayton, Rachel, 532 
Dayton, Ralph, 531 
Dayton, Robert, 531, 532 
Dayton, Samuel, 531, 532, 533, 586 
Dayton, Sarah, 533, 586 
Dayton, Stephen, 76 
Dayton, Susannah, 532 
Dayton, Walter B., 254 
Dean, Deborah, 609 
Dean, Samuel, Colonel, 188 
Dean, Samuel, 566, 568 
Deblois, WiUiam D., 250 
Deen, John, 71, 76 

De Forest, , 13 

Dehmer, Henry, 388 
Dehmer, WiUiam, 387 
Delaney, Joseph W., 384 
Delavan, John, 589 
Delevand, John, 73 
De La Vergne, Susan, 585 
Delivan, Timothy, 526 

Demill, , 609 

Demill, Anthony, 453, 608 
Demill, Peter, 416, 453, 475, 487 
Deming, Lucius P., 277, 368 
Demorat, John, 76 
Denham, Sarah, 621 
Denham, Thomas, 621 
Dennis, , 651 



Dennis, George, 453, 465 
Dennis, Hannah, 453 
Dennison, Eli, Rev., 430, 432 
Denny, Frank L., 627 
Denslow, Charles, 73, 76 
Denslow, John, 73 
Denton, Aaron, 494, 535 
Denton, Abigail, 534, 535, 536 
Denton, Abraham, 535 
Denton, Abram, 535 
Denton, Albert, 535 
Denton, Albro, 535 
Denton, Amandy, 535 
Denton, Amos, 535 
Denton, Anna, 536 
Denton, Athelene, 534 
Denton, Benajah, 536 
Denton, Benjamin, 536 
Denton, Betsy, 535, 536 
Denton, Bithynia, 536 
Denton, Caleb, 535 
Denton, Clement, 534 
Denton, Daniel, 534, 535. 536 
Denton, David, 535 
Denton, Deborah, 534 
Denton, Desdemona, 536 
Denton, Elias, 536 
Denton, EUza, 535 
Denton, Elizabeth, 536 
Denton, Emily, 535 
Denton, Esther, 536 
Denton, Evert, 494, 535 
Denton, Ezra, 535 
Denton, Fowler, 535 
Denton, Hannah, 535, 536 
Denton, Harvey, 536 
Denton, Hezekiah, 536 
Denton, Humphrey, 134, 139, 



535. 536 



Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 
Denton 



453. 



Humphrey, Jr., 128 
Jabez, 536 
Jacomiah, 534 
Jane, 535 
John M., 536 
Jonas, 536 
Jonathan, 535 
Joseph, 453, 493, 536 
Josiah, 535 
Judith, 535 
Maria, 534 
Martha, 534, 536 
Mary, 534, 535. 536 
Matilda, 535 
Matthew, 254 
Moses, 535 
Nathaniel, 534 
Nehemiah, 535 
Noah, 535 
Orrin, 535 
Patty, 535 



714 



Index to Persons 



Denton, Peter, 131, 493, 535, 589 

Denton, Phebe, 534, 535 

Denton, Polly, 536 

Denton, Rebecca, 536 

Denton, Rhoda, 535 

Denton, Richard, Rev., 533, 534 

Denton, Richard, 534 

Denton, Samuel, 124, 534, 535, 536 

Denton, Samuel C, 535 

Denton, Samuel M., 536 

Denton, Sarah, 534, 536 

Denton, Solomon, 131, 534, 535, 536, 

578 
Denton, Solomon B., 535 
Denton, Susannah, 536 
Denton, Thomas, 535 
Denton, Warren H., 535 
Denton, Washington, 535 
Denton, Wilbur, 536 
Denton, WiUiam, 535, 536 
Denton, W. B., 533, 534 
Deojay, James A., Rev., 426 
De Orsay, Charles, 225 
Depue, Abram, 132 
Depue, William, 124 
Derby, Andrew, 374 
Derby, John, 453 
Derby, Mary J., 374 
Desco, John, 457 
Deskins, G. W., Rev., 444 

Deuel, , 626 

Devens, EHzabeth, 660 

De Vinnie, Daniel, Rev., 428, 430, 432 

Dewey, , Colonel, 277 

Diamond, , 532 

Dibble, Abigail, 658 

Dibble, Ebenezer, Rev., 87, 417, 419 

Dibble, Ebenezer, 453 

Dibble, George, Captain, 93 

Dibble, George, 66, 67 

Dibble, George B., 240 

Dibble, Hannah, 575 

Dibble, Jonathan, Lieutenant, 93 

Dibble, Zachariah, 673 

Dickerman, Hannah, 670 

Dickerson, Josiah L., Rev., 430, 432 

Dickinson, John, 453 

Dickinson, Joseph, 457, 482, 485 

Dickinson, Lydia, 575 

Dickinson, Patience W., 597 

Dickson, Nathan, 76 

Diehl, John, 277 

Dikeman, Stephen, 83 

Dilluvan, John, 83 

Dillworth, Patrick, 254 

Dingy, Mary, 616 

Dingy, Robert, 616 

Dircks, Egbertie, 515 

Disbrow, Hannah, 649 

Disbrovv-, John, 453, 460, 606 



Disbrow, Lydia, 453 
Disbrow, Martha, 504 
Disbrow, Peter, 504 
Disney, Charles, 69 
Ditman, Stephen, 81 
Dixon, EHzabeth, 543 
Dixon, Sarah A., 490 
Doane, Joshua, 190 
Dodge, Fanny, 528 
Dodge, Samantha, 528 
Dodgson, Margaret, 491 
Dogherty, Andrew, 81 
Doharty, John, 250 
Dolan, Patrick, 271 
Donalton, John, 388 
Donehue, William, 239 
Donnelly, Dominick, 390 
Donnelly, Joseph, 390 
Donnelly, Timothy, 226 
Doran, Dennis, 257 
Doran, Harry, 386 
Doran, John, 386 
Doty, WiUiam, 592 
Dougan, Amelia J., 60 
Douglass and Gold, 340 
Dove, William, 250 

Downs, , 513 

Downs, John, Jr., 453 

Downs, Robert, 76 

Downs, Silas B., 257 

Drake, Albert W., Colonel, 227, 228 

Drake, John, Colonel, 632 

Drew, John, 551 

Drum, Charles, 250 

Drummond, Thomas, Rev., 429, 430 

Dudek, Katherine, 362 

Dudley, Abigail, 575 

Duff, Harry J., 389 

Duff, John, 345, 391, 623 

Duffee, John, 240 

Duffy, James, 254 

Dunbar, George, Rev., 433, 435 

Dunham, Samuel E., Rev., 414 

Dunn, Daniel D., 257 

Dunton, Royal, 189 

Dupont, , Admiral, 221 

Dupue, Abraham, 128 
Durant, Peter, 83 
Durom, George, 136 

Durrie, , 627 

Dusenbury, Henry, 613 

Dusenbury, Wilma, 613 

Dutch, Stephen, 522 

Dyer, Eliphalet, Colonel, 89, 115, Ii7 

E 

Eagan, Dennis, 25b 
Eames, H., Rev., 428 
Earl of Loudon, 72, 74, 84 



Index to Persons 



715 



Eastman, Lydia M., 529 
Eaton, Theophilus, 503, 531, 669 
Eaton, William W., 365 
Eccleston, Dewitt C., Rev., 405 
Eddy, Leroy, 389 
Eddy, Russell L., 389 
Edgit, George, 453 
Edgit, Stephen, 76 
Edgit, William, 557 
Edmonds, J. A., Rev., 428 
Edwards, Albert W., 257 
Edwards, Erwin, 275, 357 
Edwards, Helen, 576 
Edwards, Lucian B., 357 
Edwards, Miles, 652 
Edwards, Robert, 79 
Edwards, Thomas, 250 
Eells, John, 149 
Eggleston, J. Wilbur, Rev., 435 
Eglee, Emily, 576 
Eisenhardt, Charity, 636 
Eisenhardt, Christopher, 636 
Eisenhardt, Sarah, 636 
Ekine, Grove F., Rev., 414 
Elder, Julia B., 490 
EUiott, B. Franklin, 250 
Elliott, James, 362 
EUiott, Martha L., 362 
Elliott, Richard A., 362 
Ells, Joseph, 266 
Elmer, Daniel, 76 
Elmer, David, 71 
Elmer, Jeremiah, 130 

Ely, , Colonel, 146 

Ely, EHzabeth S., 401 
Ely, Mary B., 401 

Embler, , General, 277 

Emery, N., Rev., 428 

Ennis, Martha, 612 

Enos, Roger, Colonel, 120, 132, 143, 

146 
Ensign, James, 647 
Eshuysen, Gerrit, 515 
Eshuysen, Maria, 515 
Est, John H., Rev., 444 
Evarts, WiUiam E., 363 
Everitt, Richard, 453 
Evesson, Benjamin, 386 



Fair, Phebe, 638 
Fairchild, Andrew, 83 
Fairchild, Deborah, 587 
Fairchild, James B., 362 
Fairchild, Ogden, 190 
Fairchild, Robert, 362 
Fairchild, Samuel, 79 
Fancher, David, 568 
Fanning, Edward, 226 



Farrell, John, 250 

Farrell, Thomas, 219 

Faust, A. L., Rev., 428 

Favor, Anne, 623 

Favor, Elias, 623 

Faxton, Corinna, 493 

Fay, John, 250 

Feaks, Elizabeth, 5, 6, 8, 21, 24, 289 

Feaks, Robert, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 21, 24, 65, 

454. 577 
Feeks, William H., 257 
Felmen, Cornelius, 454 
Fenn, Henrj^ 354 

Fenton, , Commander, 277 

Ferdon, , 610 

Ferguson, Samuel D., Rev., 430, 432 
Ferrel, John, 81 

Ferris, , 514, 535 

Ferris, Aaron P., 281 

Ferris, Abel, 541 

Ferris, Abigail, 423, 454, 538, 539, 

540, 541. 581, 602 
Ferris, Abraham, 83, 539 
Ferris, Addison, 540 
Ferris, Adeline, 544 
Ferris, Ahasuerus, 542 
Ferris, Alexander, 240 
Ferris, Amy, 542 

Ferris, Andrew, 355, 542, 543, 544 
Ferris, Ann, 454, 543, 544, 671 
Ferris, Anna, 542, 543 
Ferris, Anne, 537, 542 
Ferris, Arthur, 540 
Ferris, Arzuba, 539 
Ferris, Asa, 541 
Ferris, Benjamin, 54, 454, 455, 462, 

481, 483, 537, 540, 541, 542 
Ferris, Benson, 539 
Ferris, Betsy, 540 
Ferris, Caleb, 128, 134, 453, 454. 455. 

537. 540 
Ferris, Caleb, Jr., 69 
Ferris, Caroline, 544, 555 
Ferris, Caroline E., 545, 555 
Ferris, Catharine, 544 
Ferris, Charles, 540, 544 
Ferris, Clarence C, 362, 544 
Ferris, Daniel, 499, 539 
Ferris, David, 333, 454, 490- 538, 539, 

540, 544 

Ferris, David L., 543 

Ferris, Deborah, 528, 537, 538, 539. 

541, 542, 543, 592 

Ferris, Ebenezer, 423, 538, 540, 542 
Ferris, Elicom M., 254 
Ferris, EUjah, 454, 455, 480, 539 
Ferris, EHphalet, 131, 454, 540. 543 
Ferris, Elizabeth, 537, 538, 539, 540, 

541, 544, 631 
Ferris, Emeline, 544 



7i6 



Index to Persons 



Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 

555 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 

540 
620 

Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
119 
460 
Ferris 
Ferris 

539 

Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
607 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 
454 
485 
Ferris 
Ferris 
Ferris 



Esther, 544, 545 

Ethan, 543 

Eunice, 539 

Ezekiel, 540 

Ezra, 540 

Frank W., 389 

Frederick A., 545 

George, 544 

George, Jr., 190 

George A., 543 

George F., 258 

George T., 257 

Gideon, 190, 502, 542, 545, 

Gideon, C, 545 
Gilbert, 84, 537, 542 
Gilbert H., 373 
Grace, 537 
Hanford, 543 

Hannah, 424, 537, 538, 539, 
541, 542, 543, 545- 602, 609, 
671, 673 
Hannah H., 544 
Harry B., M.D., 373, 544 
H. L., 550 
Helen M., 373 
Helen W., 373 
Henrietta, 544 
Henry, 542 
Henry W., 373 
Irving, 394 

Isaac, 539, 540, 543. 649 
Israel, 134 
J., Rev., 428 
Jabez, 75, 136, 454, 540 
Jacob W., ^362 
James, Lieutenant, 93, 289 
James, 31,4?. 56, 77. 116, 118, 
123, 124, 134, 135, 454. 455. 
537. 539. 541. 542, 620 
James, Sr., 52, 54 
James, Jr., 54, 190, 449, 454, 

James, 2d, 130 

James L., 425 

Japhat, 543 

Jeduthan, 130, 135, 543 

Jeffrey, 6, 7, 27, 29, 454, 536, 

614, 618 

Jemima, 542 

Jennet, 425 

Jeremiah, 136, 454, 538, 540 

Jesse, 540 

John, Captain, 93 

John, 47, 54, 60, 66, 190, 424, 

455. 465. 467. 474, 480, 482, 

487. 537. 538, 540, 543. 642 

John, Jr., 69, 455, 487, 538 

John W., 250 

Jonah, 62, 541 



Ferris, Jonathan, 455, 537, 539, 671 
Ferris, Joseph, 25, 29, 31, 34, 37, 38, 

47. 52, 54. 73. 135. 447. 450, 453. 

454. 455. 537- 538, 539. 540, 542, 

543, 602, 606, 620 
Ferris, Joseph, Jr., 540 
Ferris, Joshua, 93, 130, 454, 455, 476, 

483- 537- 540, 541. 544 
Ferris, Joshua B., 540 
Ferris, Josiah, 119, 120, 122, 136, 538, 

539 

Ferris, Kezia, 539, 542 

Ferris, Letitia, 540 

Ferris, Letta, 539 

Ferris, Levina, 542 

Ferris, Lewis, 139, 542 

Ferris, Lucy, 539 

Ferris, Lucy H., 540 

Ferris, Luke H., 544 

Ferris, Lurana, 542 

Ferris, Lydia, 541 

Ferris, Maria, 542, 544 

Ferris, Martha, 537, 539. 54^ 

Ferris, Mary, 362, 373, 537. 538, 539, 

540, 541, 542, 543, 544, '=545, 556, 

614 
Ferris, Mary A., 542 
Ferris, Mary E., 542 
Ferris, Mary K., 540 
Ferris, Mary W., 544 
Ferris, Mercy, 539, 541 
Ferris, Mindwell, 539, 642 
Ferris, Moses, 54, 79. 454. 455.^,539, 

540 
Ferris, Moses, Jr., 455 
Ferris, Nathan, 73, 76, 538, 592 
Ferris, Nathaniel, 66, 130, 131, 134, 

135, 392, 419, 454, 455. 463. 467, 

538, 540, 542, 544 
Ferris, Nathaniel B., 545 
Ferris, Nathaniel H., 544 
Ferris, Oliver, 124, 129, 136, 538, 

542 
Ferris, Oliver L., 540 
Ferris, Pach, 136, 540 
Ferris, Pack, 73, 77, 84 
Ferris, Paul B., 240 
Ferris, Peninah, 522 
Ferris, Peter, 25, 47, 66, 69, 71, 75, 

139. 198, 450. 455. 456, 485. 537. 

538, 539. 541. 680 
Ferns, Phebe, 537, 543 
Ferris, Rebecca, 539 
Ferris, Reuben, Lieutenant, 73, 76 
Ferris, Reuben, 71, 540 
Ferris, Rhoda, 541 
Ferris, Roswell, 352 
Ferris, Ruth, 36, 455, 540, 541, 542 
Ferris, Sally A., 543 
Ferris, Samuel, Lieutenant, 93 



Index to Persons 



717 



Ferris, Samuel, 71, 75, 130, 190, 454, 

455. 537- 538, 542, 543. 544. 545. 
631 

Ferris, Samuel, Jr., 455, 539 

Ferris, Samuel H., 362, 373, 543, 544 

Ferris, Samuel P., Colonel, 252 

Ferris, Sandy, 190 

Ferris, Sarah, 362, 537, 538, 539, 540, 

541. 542, 545 
Ferris, Shadrach, 542 
Ferris, Solomon, 130, 181, 542 
Ferris, Stephen, 130, 135, 333, 334, 

543 
Ferris, Stephen, Jr., Lieutenant, 190 
Ferris, Stephen K., 544 
Ferris, Susan, 540, 544 
Ferris, Sylvanus, 75, 542 
Ferris, Theodosia, 539 
Ferris, Thomas, 81 
Ferris, Timothy, 79, 456, 539 
Ferris, William, 436, 540, 544 
Ferris, William A., 199, 354, 540 
Ferris, W. G., 276 
Ferris, WiUiam H., 254, 543 
Ferris, William J., 362 
Ferris, Zachariah, 545 
Ferry, O. S., General, 229 
Field, Benjamin, 666 
Field, Jane, 666 
Field, Moses, 522 
Field, Robert, 456 
Fields, Edward, 254 
Filkins, John, 576 

Finch, , 500, 514, 640, 642 

Finch, Abigail, 456, 547, 549 

Finch, Abraham, 545, 546, 549 

Finch, Althea P., 550 

Finch, Andrew, 548, 549 

Finch, Ann, 546 

Finch, Anna, 547, 549 

Finch, Annie, 548 

Finch, Benjamin, 450, 456, 487, 547, 

549. 623 
Finch, Caleb, 122, 123, 129, 548 
Finch, Comfort, 573 
Finch, Daniel, 545, 546 
Finch, David, 79, 545, 548 
Finch, David I., 240, 550 
Finch, Dorothy, 546 
Finch, Ebenezer, 456, 546, 549 
Finch, Elizabeth, 447, 547, 548, 549, 

598 
Finch, Ezekiel, 456, 458, 549 
Finch, Ezekiel, Jr., 131 
Finch, Frances C, 550 
Finch, George W., 254 
Finch, Gilbert P., 549, 550 
Finch, Hannah, 546, 547, 548, 549 
Finch, Hannah R., 549, 550, 571 
Finch, Hardy R., 549 



Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 

190 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 

456 
Finch 
Finch 

458 

r..547 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
482 
Finch 
Finch 
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549 
Finch: 
Finch 
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Finch 
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Finch 

612 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finch 
Finley 
Finley 
Finley 



Henry, 189 
Hester A., 550 
Isaac, 456, 546, 549, 641 
Jabez, 549 
Jacob, 546, 547 
James, 546, 548 
Jared, 240, 418, 548, 550 
Jemima, 548 

Jeremiah, 73, 81, 83, 124, 130, 
139. 456 
Joel, 548 

John, 416, 456, 545, 546 
Jonathan, 56, 66, 79, 81, 131, 
474. 548, 549. 550, 640 
Jonathan, Jr., 134, 456 
Joseph, 31, 47, 447, 453, 456, 
472, 474, 482, 487, 488, 546, 
548, 549 
Joseph, Sr., 54 
Joseph, Jr., 54 
Laban, 550 
Lewis, 548 
Lydia, 500, 546, 547 
Martha, 546, 547, 549, 551 
Mary, 457, 546, 547, 548 
Mary E., 500 
Nathan, 550 

Nathaniel, Rev., 424, 425 
Nathaniel, 57, 61, 136, 448, 
546, 548, 600 
Peter, 546 
Rachel, 547 
Rebecca, 456, 513, 547, 548, 



Rebecca K., 550 

Reuben, 549, 550 

Reuben R., 513 

Rhoda, 541, 548 

Ruth, 456, 548 

Samuel, Lieutenant, 93, 549 

Samuel, 50, 139, 456, 546, 547, 

674 

Sarah, 546, 547, 549, 565 

Seth, 131 

Silas, 131, 419, 550 

Sophia, 548 

Susannah, 547 

Thomas S., 550 

Timothy, 129, 134, 548 

Titus, 546, 548 

Washington L, 250 

William, 129 

Zabud, 548 

Charles E., 360 

James W., 264 

John, 685 
Finn, Thomas J., Rev., 442, 443 
Finn, William, 218 
Finnell, Aaron, 242 
Finney, Abijah, 198 



718 



Index to Persons 



Finney, A. J., 64 

Finney, Charles, 254 

Finney, Lorenzo, 340 

Finney, Ward, 124 

Fischer, Herrmann J., Rev., 439 

Fisher, Bethia, 633 

Fisher, Edward, 225 

Fisher, Francis, 81 

Fisher, Frederick, Rev., 430 

Fisher, John, 254 

Fisher, Jonathan, 517 

Fisher, Samuel, 250 

Fisher, Samuel U., Rev., 428, 430, 

432 
Fisk, Jonathan, 457, 462 
Fisk, WilUam, 536 
Fitch, Amy J., 529 
Fitch, Ebenezer, 559 
Fitch, Jabez, Colonel, 169, 176, 184, 

194, 290 
Fitch, Jabez, Captain, 140, 173, 599 
Fitch, Jabez, 63, 120, 136, 186, 403 
Fitch, Mary, 495, 647, 648 
Fitch, Thomas, Colonel, 290 
Fitch, Thomas, 495, 647, 648 
Fitch, William, 403 
Fitzgerald, Henry M., 257, 384, 385 
Fitzgerald, Thomas, 250 
Fitzpatrick, Martin, 227, 254 
Flood, Alden, 390 
Flood, John R., 250 
Flowers, Joseph, 81 
Ford, EUakim, 555 
Ford, Letitia, 555 
Ford, William, 219 
Fordlaam, Charles W., Rev., 435 
Forman, Peter, 124 
Forquar, Robert, 77 
Fosby, William, 391 
Foss, Cyrus, Rev., 430, 432 
Foster, John, 534 
Foster, John E., 257 
Foster, J. G., General, 227, 229, 234 
Foster, Mary, 635 
Foster, William, 226 
Foster, Zachariah, 81 
Fountain, Aaron, 675 
Fountain, Hannah, 675 
Fountain, James, 457 
Fountain, John, 457 
Fowler, Clarissa, 535 
Fowler, Douglas, Colonel, 246 
Fowler, Elizabeth, 631 
Fowler, Henry, 537 
Fowler, John, 574 
Fowler, Josiah, 635 
Fowler, Samuel, 635 
Fowler, Susannah, 537 
Fowler, William, 457 
Fox, Bates, 491 



Fox, Jeannette, 652 
Fox, Nicholas, 254 
Fraily, Catharine, 626 
Francis, Abigail, 614 
Francis, Abraham S., Rev., 430, 432 
Francis, Joan, 614 
Francis, Maria, 597 
Francis, Robert, 614 
Francis, WiUiam, 448, 457 
Frank, John, 225 
Franklin, Hannah R., 373 
Franklin, Henry, 457 
Franklin, Sarah, 457 
FrankUn, Spencer, M.D., 373 
Franklin, Thomas, 457 
FrankHn, Thomas M., M.D., 373 
FrankHn, William H., 373 
Frary, William, 250 
Eraser, John D., 350 
Frederick, Charles O., 387 
Frederick, J. R., Rev., 443 
Freeland, Charles W., Rev., 364, 421, 
422 

French, , General, 228 

French, Wilson, Captain, 246 

Friedrich, Henry, 299 

Frost, Elizabeth, 551 

Frost, Stephen, 138 

Frost, Stoddard J., 576 

Frost, William, 517 

Fuller, Benjamin, 255 

Fuller, George L., Rev., 430, 433, 435 

Funston, George S., 240 



Gail, Elizabeth, 528 
Gale, William, 76 
Gales, George, 257 
Gales, Josiah, 81 
Gales, Mary, 657 
Gales, William, 73 
Galpin, John, 181 
Galpin, Joseph, Captain, 94 
Galpin, Joseph, 181, 457 
Galpin, Philip, 648 
Galvin, John, 225, 242 
Gano, Elder, 423, 424 
Gansey, Solomon S., 431 
Gardner, Abraham, 627 
Gardner, Joan C, 584 
Garfield, James A., 268 
Garnsey, Jonathan, 457 
Garnsey, Joseph, 673 
Garrison, Edward, 257 
Gates, Jonathan, 72 
Gauflf, Peter, 63 
Gautier, Christina, 535 
Gaylor, Charles S., 606 
Gaylord, William, Rev., 87 



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719 



Gedney, Bartholomew, 641 
Gedney, Eleazer, 633 
Gedney, Phebe, 636 
Gedney, Winifred, 637 
George, Thomas, 73, 77, 84, 
Gerald, James S., 240 
German. See Jarman 
Germond, Mary, 664 
Germond, Sarah, 584 

Gibbons, , General, 237 

Gibbs, Caleb, Captain, 112 
Gibbs, Jacob, 674 
Gibe, Margaret, 568 
Gideons, Solomon, 84 
Gieser, G. E., 391 
Giflford, I. S., Rev., 426 
Gilbert, Hezekiah, 81 
Gilbert, Isaac, 81 
Gilbert, John, 670 
Gilbert, Seth, 276 
Gilbert, Thomas, 345 
Gildersleve, Richard, 7 
Gill, George, 239 
Gillespie, WiUiam W., 266 
Gillies, WiUiam W., Rev., 433 

Gillmore, , General, 231, 247 

Oilman, Gilbert O., Rev., 430 
Gisborne, Frank R., 271 
Gleason, Patrick, 387, 390 
Glover, Bennett, Rev., 419 
Glover, Charles C, 433 
Glover, Charles E., Rev., 266 
Glover, Charles S., 257, 650 
Goehle, Augusta, 374 
Goehle, Carl A., 374 
Goehle, Otto L., M.D., 374 
Goettel, Rudolph, 388 
Gonnong, Aaron, 253 
Goodhart, John H., 224 
Goodrich, Daniel, 72 
Goodsill, George H., Rev., 430 
Goodyear, E. D. S., Colonel, 237 

Gordon, , General, 246, 248 

Gordon, George A., Rev., 407 
Gorham, George, 496 
Gorse, Charles, Rev., 430, 433 
Gothard, W., Rev., 428 

Gould, , 578 

Gourlie, John H., 276 
Grady, Thomas, 250 
Grafton, Walter M., Rev., 439 
Graham, Barnaby, 72 
Graham, Cornelia J., 398 
Graham, John A., M.D., 374 
Graham, Mary E., 398 
Grain, Alice, 362 
Grain, Francis H., 362 
Grandy, I. A., Rev., 444 
Grant, U. S., General, 237 
Graves, Allen, 79 



Graves, George A., Rev., 435 
Graves, Stephen, 79 

Gray, , 687 

Gray, George, 345 

Gray, Nathan, 77 

Gray, William, 491 

Greely, E. S., Colonel, 231, 233, 234, 

236, 237, 238, 277 
Greely, Horace, 245 

Green, , General, 146, 152 

Green, Abigail, 551, 554 

Green, Abraham, 552, 554 

Green, Abraham L., 553 

Green, Amos, 552 

Green, Asel, 126 

Green, Benjamin, 128, 551, 553, 554, 

566, 658 
Green, Benjamin F., 554 
Green, Betsy, 552 
Green, Betty, 552 
Green, Caleb, 554 
Green, Carrie L., 587 
Green, Charles, 457, 554, 600, 624 
Green, Charles B., 554 
Green, Charles E., 255, 554 
Green, Cynthia, 553 
Green, Daniel, 551 
Green, David, 551 
Green, Deborah, 552 
Green, Deborah L., 554 
Green, Dewitt C, 554 
Green, Ebenezer, 552 
Green, Ebenezer M., 553 
Green, Edward L., 494 
Green, Elijah, 551 
Green, Elisha, 554 
Green, Elizabeth, 551, 553, 554, 

684 
Green, Elliot, 552 
Green, Emma, 554 
Green, Erner, 554 
Green, Esther, 552 
Green, Ezra, 77, 138 
Green, George, 219 
Green, George B., 554 
Green, George W., 553 
Green, Hannah, 552, 554 
Green, Herman, 554 
Green, Hester, 552 
Green, Isaac, 551 
Green, James, Captain, 127, 132 
Green, James, 70, 75, 424, 552, 553, 

590, 684, 686 
Green, James H., 255 
Green, Jeremiah, 75 
Green, Joanna, 552 
Green, John, 84, 441, 549, 550. 55i. 

552, 553. 554 
Green, Jonathan, 551 
Green, Jonathan H., 587 



720 



Index to Persons 



Green, Joseph, 84, 446, 551, 553, 615, 

684 
Green, Lawrence, 553 
Green, Lillie, 554 
Green, Louisa, 554 
Green, Lucretia, 551 
Green, Malvina, 553 
Green, Martha, 551, 552, 590, 684 
Green, Mary, 551, 552, 553, 554 
Green, Mercy, 551, 552 
Green, Merritt, 553 
Green, Millerson, 554 
Green, Nancy, 553, 554, 590 
Green, Nathan, 552, 554 
Green, Nathaniel, 551 
Green, Nowal L., 240, 494, 554 
Green, Phebe, 551, 552, 554, 624, 658 
Green, PhilHpine, 554 
Green, Rachel, 536, 554 
Green, Rebecca M., 553, 685 
Green, Reuben, Lieutenant, 94 
Green, Reuben, 457, 552, 553, 613 
Green, Samuel, 551 
Green, Sarah, 551, 552, 553, 554, 567, 

684 
Green, Susan, 553 
Green, Thankful, 554 
Green, Thomas, 552, 553, 554 
Green, Valentine, 554 
Green, Waitstill, 674 
Green, WilHam, 255, 552 
Green, William A., 494 
Green, WiUiam H., 554 
Greenman, Epenetus, 189 
Greenslade, Joanna, 492 

Gregory, , 618 

Gregory, Betsy, 659 

Gregory, EHzabeth, 677 

Gregory, Jachin, 646 

Gregory, Sarah, 475, 646 

Gregory, Seely, 77 

Gregory, William S., 250 

Gregory, Zachariah, 81 

Griffen, Ezekiel, 457, 485 

Griffen, George, 587 - 

Griffen, Jacob, 633 

Griffen, John, 667 

Griffen, Joseph, 81 

Griffen, Judith, 664 

Griffen, Winifred, 633 

Griffen, Zophar, 667 

Griffin, Benjamin, Rev., 430, 432 

Griffis, Thomas, 69 

Grigg, Alexander, 591 

Grigg, Henry B., 553 

Grigg, John, 457, 516 

Grigg, John R., 498 

Grigg, Mary, 591 

Grimes, Henry, 647 

Grimes, William, 36, 37 



Grimsley, William, 124 
Griswold, E. W., Rev., 437 
Griswold, Julia E., 374 
Griswold, Lucius, 374 
Griswold, Mary, 492 
Griswold, Mary J., 374 
Griswold, Matthew, 492 
Griswold, Ralph B., M.D., 374 
Griswold, WiUiam L., M.D., 374 
Gritt, Mary, 647 
Grumman, Esther, 552 
Guebelle, W. J., 390 
Guernsey, John, 66 
Guernsey, Jonathan, 457 
Guire, Luke, 489, 648 
Guiscard, Uriah B., Rev., 426 
Guyer, Luke, 648 



H 



Hack, Charles, 242 

Hackett, Joseph, 215 

Hadden, Charity, 635 

Hadden, Elizabeth, 635 

Hadden, Job, 635 

Hael, Amos, 82 

Haff, John J., Captain, 291 

Hagarty, Albert S., Rev., 435 

Haggerty, Frank P., 384 

Haggerty, James, 258 

Haight, Abigail, 538 

Haight, Amos, 84 

Haight, Anna, 667 

Haight, Anne, 608 

Haight, Charity, 457 

Haight, Charlotte, 636 

Haight, Daniel, 427, 686 

Haight, David, 633, 636 

Haight, Deborah, 665 

Haight, Desire W., 427 

Haight, Elizabeth, 473 

Haight, Hannah, 667 

Haight, James, 457, 473 

Haight, John, 457 

Haight, Joseph, 457 

Haight, Joshua, 59, 457, 487 

Haight, Lavina, 636 

Haight, Lewis, 684 

Haight, Mary, 678 

Haight, Millicent, 636 

Haight, Thomas, 457 

Haight, Thomas A., Lieutenant, 249 

Haight, Thomas A., 419 

Haight, Webster, 299 

Haines, , 613 

Hait, , 568, 658, 674 

Halt, Aaron, 134 
Hait, Abigail, 561, 603 
Hait, Abraham, 75 
Hait, Abram, 132 



Index to Persons 



721 



Hait, Ebenezer, 138 

Hait, Elizabeth, 630 

Hait, Eunice, 519 

Hait, Frederick, 131 

Hait, Gideon, 72 

Hait, Jesse, Ensign, 137, 146 

Hait, John, 630 

Hait, Jonas, 658 

Hait, Jonathan, 131 

Hait, Jonathan, Jr., 134 

Hait, Martha, 562 

Hait, Mary, 508, 648 

Hait, Mercy, 538 

Hait, Samuel, Sr., 44 

Hait, Samuel, 603 

Hait, Sarah, 538, 568, 655 

Hait, Thaddeus, 568 

Hale, C. Irving, 352 

Halenbeck, Isaac C., 515 

Hall, David, 81 

Hall, Elnathan, 79 

Hall, Gasham, 82 

Hall, Oilman, 358 

Hall, Isaac, 607 

Hall, Jabez, Lieutenant, 79, 81, 83 

Hall, Jabez, 72 

Hall, Jerry, 499 

Hall, John, 84 

Hall, Joseph, 84 

Hall, Josiah, 84 

Hall, Lewis, 84 

Hall, Russell T., Rev., 407 

Hall, Russell T., 257 

Hall, WiUiam, 239 

Hall, WiUiam P., 383 

Halleck, Frank M., Rev., 430, 434 

Hallett, WiUiam, 6, 21, 24, 289 

Halligan, John H., 253 

Hallock, Jesse, 118 

Hally, Gerediah, 82 

Halsey, Rachel, 594 

Halsted, AbigaU, 505 

Halsted, Elisha, 431 

Halsted, Ezekiel, 505 

Halsted, Glorianna, 634 

Halsted, Thomas, 637 

Hambleton, Aduert, 82 

Hamilton, James, 227 

Hammond, William P., Rev., 404 

Hanford, Elnathan, Captain, 398 

Hanford, Hannah, 398, 457 

Hanford, Thomas, 646 

Hanlon, Albert F., M.D., 375 

Hanlon, Edward, 375 

Hanlon, Frances L., 375 

Hannibal, WiUiam, 257 

Hannum, Abigail, 642 

Harcourt, Richard, 446, 457 

Hardy, , Commodore, 188, 194 

Hardy, Abigail, 577 

46 



Hardy, Ann, 518 
Hardy, Hannah, 577, 640 
Hardy, Mary, 577 
Hardy, Rebecca, 640 
Hardy, Richard, 518, 577 
Hardy, Ruth, 577 
Hardy, Samuel, 557, 577, 640 
Hardy, Sarah, 518, 577 
Hardy, Susannah, 577 
Hare, Samuel, 458 
Harriott, Israel, 139 
Harris, Ehzabeth, 585 
Harris, Joseph, 458 
Harris, Moses, 458 
Harris, Reuben, Rev., 430 
Harris, Seth, 584 
Harris, William F., Rev., 437 

Harrison, , 574 

Harrison, Robert, 79 
Harrison, Samuel, 537 
Hart, Charles C, 219 
Hart, Ehzabeth, 523 
Hart, Hannah, 635 
Hart, Jacob, 458 
Hart, James, 240 
Hart, Jonathan, 635 
Hart, Mary, 523, 635 
Hart, Robert, 636 
Hart, Samuel, 458 
Hart, Sarah, 637 
Hartley, Robert, Rev., 430 
Hartman, Christopher, 75 
Hassen, Hugh, 390 
Hastings, Frederick S., 275 

Hatch, , General, 248 

Hatch, F. A., Rev., 439 

Hatfield, Emma, 587 

Hatfield, Henry, Rev., 430, 432 

Hatfield, Jennie, 587 

Hatfield, William F., Rev., 431, 433, 

587 
Hathaway, Andrew, 491 
Hatter, Harvey, 254 
HauschUdt, A. A., 276 
Havemeyer, Henry O., 303, 395 
Havemeyer, Louisine W., 303 
Haviland, John P., Rev., 430 
Haviland, Samuel, 637 
Haviland, Solomon, 458 

Hawes, , 413 

Hawley, , 497 

Hawley, Charles A., 266 

Hawley, Joseph R., General, 248, 265, 

268, 275, 277, 278 
Hawxhurst, Daniel, 506 

Hayes, , 638 

Hayes, Asa, 137 

Hayes, R. B., 268 

Hays, Abraham, 61, 62, 139, 179, 456, 

458, 494 



722 



Index to Persons 



Hays, David, 458, 494 

Hays, Jacob, 458 

Hays, Samuel, 646 

Hays, Sarah, 646 

Hays, Thomas, 77 

Healy, John, 458 

Hearne, James, 250 

Heathcoate, Caleb, Colonel, 414, 458 

Heathcoate, Gilbert, 414 

Heaton, Seth, 669 

Hebbard. See Hibbard 

Hedges, Henry P., 53i 

Hegarty, Richard, Rev., 435 

Held, J. Henry, Lieutenant, 249 

Henderson, Alexander M., 240 

Henderson, Samuel, Rev., 437 

Hendrie, Alexander, Captain, 190 

Hendrie, Alexander, 555 

Hendrie, Amelia A., 555 

Hendrie, Amy, 555 

Hendrie, Ann, 559 

Hendrie, Anna M., 555 

Hendrie, Caroline E., 555 

Hendrie, Charles, 545, 555 

Hendrie, Charles F., 555 

Hendrie, Charles W., 555 

Hendrie, Clinton, 555 

Hendrie, David, 555 

Hendrie, Emily J., 555 

Hendrie, Emma J., 555 

Hendrie, Gideon F., 555 

Hendrie, Hannah M., 555 

Hendrie, Isabelle, 555 

Hendrie, James A., 555 

Hendrie, Jane, 555 

Hendrie, John W., 555 

Hendrie, Joshua B., 555 

Hendrie, Letitia L., 555 

Hendrie, Lucy, 555 

Hendrie, Mary, 555 

Hendrie, Mary A., 555 

Hendrie, Mary L., 555 

Hendrie, Sandy, 135 

Hendrie, Sarah E., 555 

Hendrie, William, 136, 181, 554 

Henry, Charles E., 218, 219 

Henry, WilHam, 241 

Heohl, Charles, 254 

Hermance, William, 240 

Herrick, Hannah, 629 

Herrick, Henry, 629 

Herrick, Robert F., 348 

Hess, , Mrs., 399 

Hewes, Edward B., 201, 202, 208, 354 
Hibbard, Anna, 548 
Hibbard, Elijah, Rev., 428, 430, 432 
Hibbard, John, 129, 133 
Hibbard, Jonathan, 458, 548 
Hibbard, Joseph, 129, 133 
Hibbard, Nathaniel, 123, 416, 589 



Hibbaid, Polly, 589 
Hibbard, Ruth, 548 
Hihos, Samuel, 124 

Hlckerson, , Captain, 237 

Hickey, John, 225, 242 
Hicks, Barrington, 340 
Hicks, John, 416 
Hicks, WiUiam H., 255 
Hickson, George, 241 
Hide, Humphrey, 647 
Higginbotham, Richard, 674 
Higgins, A. Foster, 260, 264, 266, 267, 

353- 383 
Higgins, Henry E., 257 
Higgins, Percy, 390 

Hill, , 458 

Hill, Arza, Rev., 433 

Hill, Ebenezer, Captain, 146 

Hill, Seneca, 626 

Hill, Sylvester, 355, 664 

Hill, Thomas, 609 

Hilton, Addison, 77 

Hinck, William, 133 

Hine, Lewis, 567 

Hinman, Edward, 361 

Hinsdale, Horace C, 572 

Hitchcock, Ebenezer, 140 

Hitchcock, Joseph, 134 

Hitchcock, Thomas, 129, 134, 502, 

503 
Hitt, Henry, 458 
Hitt, Samuel, 458 
Hitt, Sarah, 458 
Hoadley, Mary, 546 
Hoadley, William, 546 
Hoatling, Charles T., 276 
Hobbs, Amy, 636 
Hobbs, J. H., Rev., 438 

Hobby, , 499, 567. 600 

Hobby, Abigail, 557, 558 

Hobby, Abigail J., 560 

Hobby, Abraham, 558 

Hobby, Alfred, 558 

Hobby, Amos, 556, 560 

Hobby, Amy, 523, 558, 559, 560, 591 

Hobby, Amy M., 560 

Hobby, Anna, 559 

Hobby, Annis, 559 

Hobby, Beniamin, 54, 75, 136, 453, 

458, 459. 557. 560, 601 
Hobby, Bethia, 523, 558 
Hobby, Betsy, 556 
Hobby, Caleb, 556, 559, 560 
Hobby, Caroline, 560 
Hobby, Caroline B., 596 
Hobby, Charlotte, 522, 559 
Hobby, Christiana, 513 
Hobby, Clarissa, 557 
Hobby, Clemence, 556, 559 
Hobby, David, Lieutenant, 189 



«i 



Index to Persons 



723 



Hobby, David, 131, 513, 558, 559, 560 

Hobby, David R., 559 

Hobby, Deborah, 510, 558 

Hobby, Deborah A., 425 

Hobby, Drake, 558 

Hobby, Ebenezer, 458, 560, 567 

Hobby, Eliza, 529, 560 

Hobby, EUza A., 559 

Hobby, Elizabeth, 375, 557, 558 

Hobby, Elkanah, 557 

Hobby, Enos, 79, 560 

Hobby, Epenetus, 557 

Hobby, Eunice, 523, 558 

Hobby, Eunice R., 560 

Hobby, Francis, 559 

Hobby, George, 425 

Hobby, George E., 560 

Hobby, George T., 559 

Hobby, Guy B., 559, 596 

Hobby, Hannah, 497, 556, 557 

Hobby, Harriet H., 559 

Hobby, Harriet P., 559 

Hobby, Harvey, 558 

Hobby, Henry, 131, 134 

Hobby, Hezekiah, 129, 133, 153, 181, 

375- 557 
Hobby, Husted, 560, 581, 589 
Hobby, Jabez M., 123, 124, 153, 556, 

557 
Hobby, James, 131 
Hobby, Jane H., 559 
Hobby, Jemima, 373, 521, 559, 560 
Hobby, Jerusha, 556 
Hobby, John, Captain, 163, 165, 169, 

557 
Hobby, John, 29, 30, 31, 35, 38, 39, 
40, 52, 54, 75, 81, 118, 151, 450, 458, 
459. 469. 497. 555. 556. 557. 566 
Hobby, John, St., 32, 48, 402, 460, 

475 
Hobby, John, Jr., 48, 459 
Hobby, Jonathan, 50, 56, 61, 449, 458, 
^459. 474. 475, 557. 558, 559, 560 
Hobby, Jonathan, Jr., 51, 61, 459 
Hobby, Joseph, Captain, 94, 136, 558, 

598 
Hobby, Joseph, 459, 522, 523, 556, 

558, 598 
Hobby, Joseph, Jr., 116, 122 
Hobby, Josephus, 559 
Hobby, Josiah, 499 
Hobby, Jotham, 559 
Hobby, Lewis, 190 
Hobby, Lewis H., 559 
Hobby, Lucy P., 523, 560 
Hobby, Lydia, 559 
Hobby, Lydia A., 559 
Hobby, Maria, 559 
Hobby, Marilda, 559 
Hobby, Martha, 557 



Hobby, Martin, 557 

Hobby, Mary, 153, 425, 490, 557, 558, 
559. 560, 566, 594 

Hobby, Mills, 129, 134, 558, 559, 560, 
594 

Hobby, Molly, 556 

Hobby, Moses M., 559 

Hobby, Nancy, 556, 557 

Hobby, Nehemiah B., 560 

Hobby, Orpha, 558 

Hobby, Phebe, 557 

Hobby, Philander, 560 

Hobby, Rachel, 497, 557 

Hobby, Rachel R., 559 

Hobby, Rebecca, 499, 556, 557 

Hobby, Ruth, 594 

Hobby, vSally, 495, 556 

Hobby, Samuel D., M.D., 375 

Hobby, Samuel S., 560 

Hobby, Sarah, 153, 498, 556, 557, 558, 
559. 560 

Hobby, Seymour, 558 

Hobby, Silas, 555, 559 

Hobby, Squire, 560, 589, 590 

Hobby, Stephen, 556 

Hobby, Susannah, 557 

Hobby, Susannah C, 590 

Hobby, Tammy, 379, 558 
Hobby, Thomas, Colonel, 62, 126, 
^151-153. 163, 169, 173, 556, 615 
Hobby, Thomas, Major, 118, 124 
Hobby, Thomas, Captain, 70, 71, 73, 

78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 146, 290 
Hobby, Thomas, 48, 54, 58, 189, 451, 

459, 485. 499. 556, 559 
Hobby, Thomas, Jr., 82, 83, 123, 124, 

126, 567 
Hobby, Vashti, 559 
Hobby, Walter, 556 
Hobby, WiUiam, 558, 559, 560 
Hobby, William K., 559 
Hodge, Hull H., 254 
Hodgson, Nathan, 348 
Hoeck, R., Rev., 439 
Hoffman, John A., Rev., 439 
Hoit, David, Captain, 94 
Hoit, John, 504 
Hoit, Jonathan, Colonel, 290 
Hoit, Mary, 504 
Hoit, Thomas, 459 
Holden, Frederic A., 607 
Holden, J. H., Rev., 437 
Holden, James H., 340 

Holdridge, , Colonel, 168 

Hollis, George, Rev., 433, 435 
HoUister, Abigail, 647 
HolHster, Esther, 529 
Hollister, Francis, 529 
HolHster, Gideon, 264, 265, 267 
Hollister, John P., 266 



724 



Index to Persons 



Holly 

Holly 

566 

Holly 

565 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 

565 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 

393 
Holly 
Holly 

565 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 

565 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 

565 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 
Holly 



, 459. 547- 568 

Abigail, 510, 561, 562, 564, 565, 

641, 657 

Abraham, 75, 131, 138, 564- 

Benjamin, 562 

Benjamin, Jr., 69 

Bethia, 561, 565, 566, 681 

Bezaleel, 562 

Charles, 565 

Chloe, 593 

Daniel, 561 

David, 562, 565 

Deborah, 565, 566 

Ebenezer, 562, 564 

Edward P., 167, 175, 564 

EUphalet, 564 

Elisha, 561, 563, 674 

Eliza A., 564 

Elizabeth, 561, 562, 563, 564, 

566, 674 

Elnathan, 564 

Frances O., 564 

Francis, 561, 641 

Francis M., M.D., 292, 375, 

419 

Frank, 510 

Hannah, 561, 562, 563, 564, 

566, 602 

Henry, 561 

H. Hudson, 421 

Increase, 561, 562, 565, 566 

Isaac, 318, 563, 564, 565, 572 

Israel, 565 

Jabez, 126, 565, 566 

Jedediah, 563 

Jemima, 562, 566 

Joanna, 561, 563 

John, 73, 85, 459> S^L 562, 564, 

566, 681 

John W., 375 

Jonah, 564 

Jonathan, 561, 562, 563, 565 

Joseph, 562, 563 

Josiah, 561, 562 

Kezia, 562, 566 

Lois, 603 

Lucius, 564 

Lydia, 564 

Margaret, 565 

Martha, 561, 562, 563, 564, 

602, 659 

Mary, 561, 562, 564, 565, 644 

Mercy, 561, 563, 564 

Nathan, Lieutenant, 71 

Nathan, 563 

Nathaniel, 75, 459, 561, 565 

Newman, 563 

Noah, 562 

Pierre R., 419 



Holly, Piatt T., Rev., 564 

Holly, Rachel, 565 

Holly, Rebecca, 563, 673, 674 

Holly, Reuben, 564 

Holly, Rheuma, 561 

Holly, Rhoda, 561 

Holly, Sally, 564 

Holly, Samantha R., 564, 572 

Holly, Samuel, 518, 561, 562, 563 

Holly, Sarah, 561, 562, 563, 565, 572, 

575- 641, 672 
Holly, Selleck, 563, 674 
Holly, Silas, 563 

Holly, Stephen, 563, 564, 603, 670 
Holly, Susannah, 563 
Holly, Sylvanus, 562 
Holly, Waitstill, 562, 565 
Holly, WilUam, 564 



Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes, 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 



Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 

673 
Holmes 

568 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 
Holmes 



, Colonel, 178, 252 

329 

Abigail, 566, 567, 568 

Abner, 567 

Absalom, 567 

Ann, 566, 568 

Azel, 566 — 

Bates, 498 

Benjamin, 69, 459, 560, 567 

Betsy, 567 

Caleb M., 240 

Caleb W., 334 

Charles H., 334, 335, 33^ 

Charlotte, 520 

Clarissa, 557 

David, 567, 568 

Deborah, 497, 568 

Ebenezer, 127, 567, 568 

Elizabeth, 566, 686 

Enoch, 128 

Epenetus, 61, 88, 395, 566 

Francis, 566 

Frank J., 336 

Gideon, 567 

Hannah, 556, 567, 568, 657 

Ichabod, 567 

Isaac, Lieutenant, 94 

Isaac, 51, 61, 457, 459, 461, 



1,556,567, 568,686 



Israel, 567 

Jabez, 567 

Jemima, 568, 639 

John, 75, 498, 566, 567, 568, 

Jonathan, 449, 459, 460, 566, 

Joseph, 568 
Jotham, 567 
J. Frederick, 177 
Lvicinda, 529 
Lucretia, 529 
Luther, 334 



Index to Persons 



725 



Holmes, Martha, 563, 566, 568 
Holmes, Mary, 460, 551, 566, 567, 

568, 686 
Holmes, Mercy, 568 
Holmes, Molly, 567 
Holmes, Nathan, 139 
Holmes, Nathaniel, 124 
Holmes, Philip W., 353 
Holmes, Polly, 567 
Holmes, Rachel, 566, 567, 568 
Holmes, Rebecca, 568 
Holmes, Reuben, Lieutenant, 94 
Holmes, Reuben, 75, 136, 392, 529, 

567 
Holmes, Richard, 566, 568 
Holmes, Rose, 568 
Holmes, Ruth, 559, 567 
Holmes, Samuel, 568 
Holmes, Sarah, 566, 567 68 584, 

660, 673 
Holmes, Silas, 567 
Holmes, Solomon, 568 
Holmes, Squire, 566 
Holmes, Stephen, 54, 56, 449, 459, 

474. 557. 566, 567, 568, 673 
Holmes, Susannah, 566, 567 
Holmes, Thatford, 79 
Holouday, Michael, 82 
Holt, Sarah, 630 
Holt, William, 630 

Hooker, , General, 246 

Hoose, Fred W., 350 

Hopkins, Dinah, 616 

Hopkins, Ichabod, 616 

Hopkins, Polly, 629 

Hopkins, Sarah, 616 

Hopperton, George, 619 

Horton, Barnabas, 568 

Horton, Benjamin, 569 

Horton, Caleb, 569 

Horton, George F., 569 

Horton, Hannah, 569 

Horton, John, 190, 191, 385, 460, 498, 

557. 637 
Horton, Jonathan, 569 
Horton, Joseph, 514, 569 
Horton, Joshua, 569 
Horton, Mary, 569 
Horton, Mercy, 569 
Horton, Sarah, 569 
Horton, Starr S., 254 
Hotchkiss, Milo, 377 
Hotchkiss, Rhoda, 377 
Houghton, John C., Rev., 409 
House, John, 77 
Howard, O. O., General, 245, 273 

Howe, , 154 

Howe, Abigail, 569, 570, 573 
Howe, Abraham, 569 
Howe, Allen, 571 



Howe, Bathsheba, 569 

Howe, Betsy, 571, 606 

Howe, Bowers, 573 

Howe, Charles, 574 

Howe, Charles T., 572 

Howe, Charlotte E., 572 

Howe, Comfort, 574 

Howe, Cornelia, 572 

Howe, Daniel, 569 

Howe, David, 572, 573 

Howe, Deborah, 571, 574 

Howe, Ebenezer, 130, 135, 569. 573 

Howe, Edward, 569 

Howe, Elizabeth, 569, 570, 571, 573 

Howe, Epenetus, 572 

Howe, Ephraim, 569 

Howe, Esther, 569, 571, 573 

Howe, Hannah, 574 

Howe, Ireneus, 573 

Hovi/e, Isaac, Captain, 137, 156, 570 

Howe, Isaac, Ensign, 129, 132, 571 

Howe, Isaac, 56, 122, 196, 395, 460, 

471. 549. 569. 570, 571. 572, 573. 

677 
Howe, Isaac, Jr., 460 
Howe, Jacob, 573 
Howe, James, 573 
Howe, Jeremiah, 569 
Howe, Jesse, 573, 574 
Howe, John, 449, 451, 460, 462, 463, 

477. 485. 569. 573. 574 
Howe, Jonas, 189, 571 
Howe, Jonathan, 136, 573 
Howe, Joseph, 569 
Howe, Keziah, 571 
Howe, Laui^a, 571, 572 
Howe, Lewis, 301, 399, 571 
Hovre, Libens, 574 
Howe, Lucy, 572 
Howe, Martha, 574 
Howe, Mary, 569 
Howe, Nathan, 573 
Howe, Nathaniel, 39, 47, 69, 569, 570, 

573 
Howe, Nehemiah, 564, 572 
Howe, Phebe, 574 
Howe, PhiUp M., 572 
Howe, Polly, 573 
Howe, Rachel, 571 
Howe, Rebecca, 573 
Howe, Robert K., 572 
Howe, Sally, 523, 571 
Howe, Samuel, Rev., 572 
Hovv^e, Samuel, 569, 570, 572 
Howe, Sarah, 569, 570, 571, 573, 574 
Howe, Sylvanus, 131, 134, 573 
Howe, Theodore L. B., 572 
Howe, Uriah, 570 
Howe, William, 570 
Howe, William A., 569, 572 



726 



Index to Persons 



Howe, Zachariah, 569 
Rowland, Mary A., 597 
Rowland, Seneca, Rev., 430, 433-435 
Howley, Thomas F., 390 

Hoyt, , 566 

Hoyt, Benjamin, 682 

Hoyt, Bouton, 610 

Hoyt, Charles E., Rev., 412 

Hoyt, Charles H., 240 

Hoyt, Clarissa, 499 

Hoyt, Deborah, 610 

Hoyt, EHzabeth, 362 

Hoyt, Elizabeth S., 375 

Hoyt, Hannah, 561, 674 

Hoyt, Heusted W. R., Colonel, 264, 

267, 275, 278, 279, 291, 337, 353, 

359, 362, 366, 369 
Hoyt, Isabelle T., 376 
Hoyt, James, 126 
Hoyt, James H., M.D., 201, 202, 204, 

205, 206, 208, 209, 212, 375 
Hoyt, John, 583 
Hoyt, John L. C, 512 
Hoyt, Jonathan, 85 
Hoyt, Joseph, 137, 674 
Hoyt, Joseph W., 375 
Hoyt, Louisa M., 375 
Hoyt, Mary, 607 
Hoyt, OUver, 265 
Hoyt, Peter, 240 
Hoyt, Philip L., Rev., 428, 433 
Hoyt, Salmon, 582 
Hoyt, Samuel, 656 
Hoyt, Sarah, 582, 583 
Hoyt, Sarah L., 376 
Hoyt, Simon, 607 
Hoyt, Susannah, 656 
Hoyt, Thankful, 610 
Hoyt, Thomas, 599 
Hoyt, Warner, Rev., 362 
Hoyt, W. B., Rev., 428 

Hubbard, , 531 

Hubbard, Abigail, 574, 575, 576 
Hubbard, Abraham, 66, 460, 464, 

575, 576, 600, 624 
Hubbard, Abraham, Jr., 460 
Hubbard, Albert, 576 
Hubbard, Alexander, 576 
Hubbard, Andrew, 575 
Hubbard, Anne, 575 
Hubbard, Billy, Rev., 428, 430 
Hubbard, Charles, 254 
Hubbard, Clarence, 576 
Hubbard, Daniel, 66, 74, 459, 460, 
^574,575 

Hubbard, Elizabeth, 574, 575, 621 
Hubbard, Ellen, 576 
Hubbard, Elmaretta, 575 
Hubbard, Frederick A., 293, 295, 296, 

301-304,345.363,393 



Hubbard, Gabriel, 575 
Hubbard, George, 47, 460, 574, 576 
Hubbard, Hannah, 574, 575 
Hubbard, Harvey, 576 
Hubbard, Henry, 131, 575 
Hubbard, Henry S., 576 
Hubbard, Holly, 240, 575 
Hubbard, Isaac, 575 
Hubbard, Isaac M., 383 
Hubbard, Jeremiah, Rev., 511 
Hubbard, John, 240, 460, 564, 574, 

575, 576, 591 
Hubbard, Joseph, 82 
Hubbard, Julian A., 240 
Hubbard, Luther P., 268, 353, 363, 

393 
Hubbard, Lydia, 575 
Hubbard, Margaret, 575 
Hubbard, Mary, 363, 521, 574, 575, 

576 
Hubbard, Mary T., 393 
Hubbard, Mortimer, 576 
Hubbard, Napoleon, 576 
Hubbard, Nathaniel, 502, 575, 576 
Hubbard, Prudence, 576 
Hubbard, Sarah, 574, 575, 591 
Hubbard, Sarah A., 576, 591 
Hubbard, Stephen, 576 
Hubbard, S. A., 266 
Hubbard, Townsend, 575 
Hubbard, WiUiam, 26, 31, 54, 447, 

452, 460, 463, 468, 471, 574. 575, 

576, 621 

Hubbard, William, Sr., 48 
Hubbard, WiUiam, Jr., 48, 460 
Hubbard, William N., M.D., 521 
Hubbell, Abigail, 460 
Hubbell, Jehiel, 124, 129, 132, 460 
Huestis, Grace E., 587 
Huestis, William H., 587 
Hugby, George, 390 
Hugerford, Edward, 552 
Hugerford, EHzabeth, 175, 599 
Hugerford, Margaret, 176, 599 
Hugerford, Thomas, M.D., 175, 599 
Hugerford, Thomas, 392, 460 

Huggins, , Major, 196 

Hughes, , Captain, 140 

Hughes, , Lieutenant, 142 

Hughes, Charles, 240 
Hughes, Henry, 215 
Hughes, James, 219 
Hughes, John, 340 
Hughes, Patrick, 391 

Hull, , 621 

Hull, Isaac, 140 

Hull, John, Jr., 460 

Hull, Joseph, Lieutenant, 140 

Hull, Tediman, 540 

Hungerford, Henry, General, 277 



Index to Persons 



727 



Hunt, Aaron, Rev., 428, 430, 432 

Hunt, Abigail, 547 

Hunt, Jesse, Rev., 430, 432 

Hunt, Jesse, 506 

Hunt, Lydia, 633 

Hunt, Mary, 636 

Hunt, Moses, 530 

Hunt, Stephen, 504 

Hunt, Thomas P., 240 

Hunter, , General, 222 

Hunter, Elijah, 521 

Hurlburt, Richard, 453, 460 

Hurley, Samuel, 66 

Huss, , Colonel, 277 

Husseman, John F., 224 

Husted, , 520 

Husted, Aaron, 559, 576, 591 

Husted, Abigail, 554, 585, 589, 592 

Husted, Abraham, 122, 129, 133, 173, 

^^577.578, 599 

Husted, Abram F., 580 

Husted, Adelaide, 589 

Husted, Adeline S., 367 

Husted, Albert P., 587 

Husted, Alfred, 584 

Husted, Alfred W., 584, 591 

Husted, Alice, 579 

Husted, Ahce L., 587 

Husted, Amanda, 586 

Husted, Amos, 324, 524, 579, 589, 591 

Husted, Amos W., 240, 587 

Husted, Ananias, 577 

Husted, Andrew, 583 

Husted, Angell, 6, 7, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31 , 
34, 38, 169, 447, 461, 577, 581, 596, 
656 

Husted, Angell, Sr., 48, 52, 54, 60 

Husted, Angell, Jr., 42, 48, 54, 405, 

461 
Husted, Ann, 461, 577, 586 
Husted, Ann E., 586 
Husted, Anna, 578, 582 
Husted, Annie, 588, 589 
Husted, Anson, 587 
Husted, Augusta W., 590 
Husted, Augustus, 579 
Husted, Augustus W., 579, 580 
Husted, Azuba, 589 
Husted, A. Frank, 579 
Husted, Benjamin, 429, 461, 533, 

582, 585, 586, 588 
Husted, Benjamin, Jr., 131 
Husted, Benjamin C., 588 
Husted, Benjamin F., 419 
Husted, Benjamin W., 580 
Husted, Betsy B., 580 
Husted, Betsy D., 580 
Husted, Caleb, 578, 591, 685 
Husted, Caleb A., 591 
Husted, Canfield G., 585 



Husted, CaroUne, 588, 590 

Husted, Caroline A., 584 

Husted, Cathariiie, 578 

Husted, Catharine J., 591 

Husted, Charles E., 582 

Husted, Charles H., 582 

Husted, Charles S., 586 

Husted, Clara, 589 

Husted, Clarissa, 584 

Husted, Clarissa J., 588 

Husted, Conklin, 522, 586 

Husted, Cordelia, 589 

Husted, Cornelius, 584 

Husted, Cynthia, 560, 589 

Husted, Cynthia E., 591 

Husted, Daniel, 585 

Husted, David, 461, 577, 578, 579, 

580, 581, 602 

Husted, David D., 585, 586 

Husted, David S., 581 

Husted, Deborah, 585, 589, 592, 593, 

605 
Husted, Derrick, 584 
Husted, Desire, 578 
Husted, Drake, Lieutenant, 189 
Husted, Drake, 579, 580 
Husted, Eben, 585 
Husted, Ebenezer, 461, 464, 584, 585 
Husted, Ebenezer E., 585 
Husted, Edna, 587 
Husted, Edward E., 583 
Husted, Elbertina, 580 
Husted, Ehphalet P., 580 
Husted, Eliza, 582, 583, 585 
Husted, EHzabeth, 490, 577, 578, 584, 

588, 592, 593 
Husted, Elkanah, 579 
Husted, Elnathan, 250, 524, 590, 616 
Husted, Emily, 587, 588, 591 
Husted, Emily M., 588 
Husted, Esbon, 587, 589, 592 
Husted, Eunice, 553, 560, 577, 578, 

581, 591, 602 
Husted, Eunice C, 588 
Husted, Eunice L., 588 
Husted, Evelyn, 583 
Husted, Evelyn C, 586 
Husted, Evelyn G., 587 
Husted, Ezekiel, 578 
Husted, Frances, 587 
Husted, Frank C, 587 
Husted, Freelove, 578 
Husted, George, 583, 590 
Husted, George J., 588 
Husted, George S., 584 
Husted, Germond, 585 
Husted, Gertrude, 585 
Husted, Giles, 583 
Husted, Grace, 588 
Husted, H., Rev., 428 



728 



Index to Persons 



Husted, Hannah, 578, 579, 580, 

582, 583, 585, 586, 592, 656 
Husted, Hannah E., 580 

Harriet, 582, 591 

Harriet E., 588 

Harrison H., 583 

Harvey, 587 

Harvey P., 587 

Helen, 588 

Henry, 190, 578, 582, 



581, 



Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 

585 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 

592 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 

578, 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 



584. 



Henry P., 582 

Henry R., 589 

Hiram, 583 

Hiram W., 583 

Hoyt, 583 

Irving, 588 

Isaac, 585 

Israel, 578, 579, 581 

Israel G., 580 

Jabez, 592 

Jacob, 585 

James, 419, 585, 586, 



James F., 588 

James G., 585 

James H., 582, 588 

James T., 583 

James W., 576 

Jared, 592 

Jarvis N., M.D., 587 

Jemima, 578 

Jethro, 578 

Job L., 512, 591 

John, 54, 56, 126, 416, 
582, 592 

John A., 419, 588, 589 

John B., 583 

John E., 589 

John W., 582 

Jonathan, 39, 48, 54, 
429, 461, 577, 581, 582, 585, 
598, 667 
Husted, Jonathan C, 582 
Husted, Joseph, 48, 54, 135, 461, 
538, 577, 578, 579. 581, 585, 
Husted, Joseph B., 579, 580, 588 
Husted, Joseph W., 419, 5S6 
Husted, Juanah, 590 
Husted, Judith, 534 
Husted, Julia, 580, 584 
Husted, Julia E., 586 
Husted, Laura A., 583 
Husted, Lavinia, 582 
Husted, Lawrence, 579 
Husted, Leonard, 584 
Husted, Levina, 578 
Husted, Lewis, 577, 585 
Husted, Lewis H., 583 
Husted, Lizzie, 588' 



577- 



419- 



472, 
592 



Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
578, 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 

587 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 
Husted 



Lizzie D., 580 
Lot, 579 
Louisa A., 587 
Lucy, 589 

Lydia, 534, 578, 586 
Lyman, 582 
Lyman B., 590 
Mabel, 587 
Mahala, 577 
Maria, 585, 586 
Marion L., 588 
Martha, 577, 586, 589, 593 
Mary, 461, 533, 576, 577. 
585. 588, 589, 592, 593, 596 
Mary A., 579, 584 
Mary B., 586 
MaryE., 581, 584, 585, 586, 



Mary F., 580 

Mary H., 585 

Mary J., 583, 591 

Mary L., 581, 598 

Matthew, 578 

MiUicent, 577 

Mills H., 367, 512, 591 

Milton, 585 

Milton H., 585 

Minnie, 588 

Morris, 584 

Mortimer, 590 

Moses, 175, 461, 469, 589, 
590, 592 
Husted, Nancy, 583, 587, 588 
Husted, Nancy E., 579, 580, 582, 590 
Husted, Nathan, 582, 584 
Husted, Nathan L., 240, 581 
Husted, Nathan R., 582 
Husted, Nathaniel, 131, 134, 429, 

446, 586, 587, 592 
Husted, Nathaniel C, M.D.,429, 587 
Husted, Nathaniel S., 588, 589 
Husted, Nathaniel W., 587 
Husted, Nehemiah H., 359, 588 
Husted, Nehemiah L., 588 
Husted, Patience, 577 
Husted, Pauline, 588 
Husted, Peter, 129, 553, 554, 560, 

581, 582, 584, 589, 590, 591 
Husted, Peter, Jr., 392 
Husted, Phebe, 667 
Husted, Phebe A., 581, 616 
Husted, Phebe J., 587 
Husted, Phene, 583 
Husted, Piatt, 583 
Husted, Polly, 582, 583, 584, 589 
Husted, Rachel, 578, 586, 589 
Husted, Rebecca, 577 
Husted, Rebecca A., 582 
Husted, Remembrance, 577 
Husted, Reuben, 577, 578 



Index to Persons 



729 



Husted, Robert, 6, 7, 22, 461, 576, 

577, 587 
Husted, Roswell, 586 
Husted, Ruth, 577, 578, 581 
Husted, Sally, 579, 581, 582 
Husted, Samuel, 54, 126, 190, 461, 

462, 474, 490, 577, 583, 584, 585, 

586, 587, 588, 592, 606 
Husted, Samuel G., 584 
Husted, Samuel P., 590 
Husted, Samuel W., 583 
Husted, Sarah, 577, 578, 580, 581, 

584- 585> 586, 587, 589. 592, 593- 

675 
Husted, Sarah A., 588 
Husted, Sarah E., 588, 591 
Husted, Sarah J., 580 
Husted, Sarah L., 582, 583 
Husted, Sarah M., 579 
Husted, Seymour, 583 
Husted, Sherman, 582 
Husted, Silas^,585, 591 
Husted, Singleton, 587 
Husted, Squire J., 590 
Husted, Stephen, 578, 583 
Husted, Susan F., 588 
Husted, Susannah, 577, 584, 589, 590 
Husted, Thaddeus, 583, 593 
Husted, Theophilus P., 580 
Husted, Thomas, 126 
Husted, Thomas F., 583 
Husted, Thomas S., 583 
Husted, Titus, 577 
Husted, Uzal, 582 
Husted, Walter, 584 
Husted, Walter I., 585 
Husted, Willett M., 579 
Husted, WiUiam, 418, 579, 580, 585, 

586 
Husted, WilUam A., 167, 175, 579, 

580, 581, 586, 590 
Husted, WiUiam E., 580, 584, 590 
Husted, WiUiam F., 590 
Husted, William H., 581, 583 
Husted, WiUiam L., 587 
Husted, Zebulon, 461, 592 
Hutchings, Absalom, 462 
Hutchings, John, 462 
Hutchins, Caleb, 124 
Hutchinson, Ann, 13 
Hutchinson, Joseph, 72 
Hutton, Samuel, 451, 462 
Hyatt, Benjamin F., 554 
Hyatt, Martha, 637 
Hyde, Albert A., 224 
Hyde, Fritz C, M.D., 376 
Hyde, Harriet B., M.D., 376 
Hyde, Humphrey, 647 
Hyde, Mary E., 376 
Hyde, Wesley W., 376 



Hyde, WiUiam A., Rev., 404, 413 
Hyde, WiUiam H., 224 
Hyer, Harriet, 624 



Indians, 1-33, 323 
Indian names: 

Akeroque, 6 

Amogerone, i, 5 

Amsetthehone, 5 

Asamuck, i, 5 

Asamuck River, 5 

Betuckquapock, 2 

Koefferam, 5, 6 

Kouko, 31 > 32, 33 

Kowaconussa, 31, 32 

Kowakconnisso, 32 

Mayn Mayano, i, 14 

Miossehassaky, i, 2 

Mohawks, 13 

Mohegans, 2 

Monakewego, 5 

Nawhorone, i, 5 

Oruns, 32 

Owenoke, i, 5 

Paeham, 12 

Paihomsing, 65 

Pakekcho, 32 

Pakohchero, 31, 32, 33 

Patomuck, i, 5 

Patomuck River, 5, 7 

Pauonohas, 6 

Peattun, 31, 32. 33 

Pennewitz, 17 

Petuquapaen, i, 2, 11, 14, 18 

Poningoe, 2 

Ponus, 2 

Powiatoh, 6 

Querrecqui, 31, 32. 33 

Quinnehtukqut, 2 

Rammatthone, i, 5 

Rasobibitt, 6 

Rumppanus, 31, 32, 33 

Saponas, 6 

Sioascock, 2, 11 

Siwanoys, 2, 19 

Tankitekes, 12 

Tatomuck Brook, 46 

Wapping, 33 

Wappingers, 19 

Weeckquesqueecks, 2, 11, 17 

Wesskum, 33 

Wetorrum, 32 

Whonehorn, 6 
IngersoU, AbigaU, 379, 512, 593, 595 
IngersoU, AbigaU R., 594 
IngersoU, Alton, 612 
IngersoU, Ann, 512, 594 
IngersoU, Anne, 594 



730 



Index to Persons 



IngersoU, Belle, 593 

IngersoU, Benjamin, 593, 594 

IngersoU, Caroline, 593 

IngersoU, CeceUa, 594 

IngersoU, Daniel, 595 

IngersoU, David D., 594 

IngersoU, Deborah, 512, 594 

IngersoU, Elizabeth, 594 

IngersoU, Emeline, 594 

IngersoU, EmeUne M., 512, 594 

IngersoU, George N., 594 

IngersoU, Gideon, 595 

IngersoU, Hannah, 593, 594, 595 

IngersoU, Isaac, 593 

IngersoU, Jane, 593 

IngersoU, Jemima, 594 

IngersoU, John, 66, 593, 594 

IngersoU, John N., 594 

IngersoU, Joseph, 131, 512, 560, 594 

IngersoU, Josiah, 462, 595, 641 

IngersoU, Levi, 575 

IngersoU, Lottie, 594 

IngersoU, Lydia, 593, 594 

IngersoU, Mary, 512 

IngersoU, Mary A., 594 

IngersoU, Mary E., 594 

IngersoU, Mercy, 593 

IngersoU, Nathaniel, 65, 131, 134, 

^ 512, 593 

IngersoU, Oliver S., 250 

IngersoU, Polly, 593 

IngersoU, Rebecca, 594, 595 

IngersoU, Ruhema, 595 

IngersoU, Roswell R., 594 

IngersoU, Samuel, 134, 594 

IngersoU, Sarah, 593, 595 

IngersoU, Simon, Lieutenant, 94, 126 

IngersoU, Simon, 66, 75, 342, 462, 

^ 475- 593. 623 

IngersoU, S. C., 342 

IngersoU, TiUie, 594 

IngersoU, Ward, 594 

IngersoU, William, 593 

Ireland, Adam, 462 

Ireland, Job, 462 

Isaacs, Benjamin, Captain, 516 

Isaacs, Sarah, 516 

Iselin, Adrian, 177 

Isham, Ralph Henry, 348 

Israel Putnam House Association, 177 



Jackson, Daniel, 77 
Jackson, EHzabeth, 648 
Jackson, Hannah, 648 
Jackson, Henrv, 648 
Jackson, John,' 648 
Jackson, Mary, 537 
Jackson, O. L., 588 



Jackson, Robert, 537 

Jackson, Robert L., Rev., 438 

Jackson, Stephen, 77 

Jackson, Stonewall, General, 245 

Jackson, S. T., Rev., 430 

Jacobs, Ehsha P., Rev., 430, 432 

Jacobs, Hobart B., 393, 394 

Jacobs, I. D., Rev., 444 

Jagger, , 568 

Jagger, Hannah, 563 

Jagger, Jeremiah, 74, 76, 462, 464 

Jagger, Jonathan, 477 

Jagger, Reuben, 77 ^ 

James, Henry, 462,'4^78, 557 *■ 

James, Horace, Rev., 407 

James, Joseph, 489, 546 

James, Mary, 489 

James, Nathaniel, 602 

Jansen, , Rev., 414 

Jarman, Charles, 123, 124, 462, 486 

Jarman, George, 240 

Jarman, Isaac, 462 

Jarman, James, 436 

Jarman, John, 72, 74, 77 

Jarman, Peter, 123, 128 

Jarman, Walter M., 250 

Jarman, William, 240 

Jarvis, Samuel, 646 

Jeda, T. R., Rev., 443 

Jeffrey, Samuel, 568 

Jeffries, William E., Rev., 428, 435 

Jemison, WiUiam, 134 

Jenkins, Samuel, 31, 462 

Jenkins, Sarah, 575 
Jennings, Joshua, 489 
Jennison, Henry J., 255 
Jenny, Robert, Rev., 415, 419 

Jessup, , 661 

Jessup, Amos, 136 

Jessup, Hannah, 462 

Jessup, Henry G., Rev., 409 

Jessup, Jonathan, 136, 462 

Jessup, Jonathan, Jr., 135 

Jessup, Nathaniel, 74, 77, 84, 138 

Jessup, Samuel, 190 

Jessup, Sylvanus, 75, 79, 130, 135 

Jewell, Marshall, 265, 268 

Jewett, W., Rev., 428 

Johns, David, 436 

Johnson, Anne, 602 

Johnson, Benjamin, 140 

Johnson, Daniel, 123, 138 

Johnson, Edwin H., 275 

Johnson, Frank, 257 

Johnson, Franklin, 240 

Johnson, James, 462 

Johnson, John, 416, 462, 540, 544, 61 r 

Johnson, John, Jr., 72 

Johnson, Lewis, 623 

Johnson, Mary, 540, 544, 575 



Index to Persons 



731 



Johnson, Nathaniel, 138 
Johnson, Peter, 79, 82, 137 
Johnson, Robert, 190 
Johnson, Samuel, 69, 75, 139, 528 
Johnson, Susan, 540, 544 
Johnson, Thomas, 134, 416, 462 
Johnson, William, General, 70-71 
Johnson, William, 74, 82, 134, 138, 

462 
Johnson, William S., Dr., 89 
Johnson, William T., 257 
Johnston, Abraham, 129, 134 
Johnston, Charles, 587 
Johnston, Eva T., 587 
Johnston, James, 129, 134 
Johnston, Thomas, 129 
Johnston, William, Jr., 129 
Jones, Abigail, 376 
Jones, Ann, 367 
Jones, Barrett, 377 
Jones, Catherine, 627 
Jones, Daniel, Rev., 428 
Jones, David, 190 
Jones, Eliphalet, Rev., 35, 36, 37, 

403, 462 
Jones, Fanny H., 377, 393 
Jones, Henry, 416 
Jones, Horace C., 377 
Jones, James, 72, 224 
Jones, John, Rev., 35, 64, 404 
Jones, John, 81, 219, 682 
Jones, John H., 367 
Jones, Leander P., M.D., 294, 304, 

376 
Jones, Llewellyn, 627 
Jones, Milo H., M.D., 377 
Jones, Philip L., 377 
Jones, Rhoda, 377 
Jones, Richard L., 358 
Jones, Sara, 367 
Jones, Sarah, 682 
Jones, Susannah, 35 
Jones, Thomas, 242, 376, 611 
Jones, Walter, 619 
Jones, William, 138 
Jordon, John, 75, 124 
Jordon, William, 123, 124, 132 
Joseph, Aaron, 219 
Joy, Lewis, 628 
Joyce, James, 82, 84 
Joyce, John, 79, 82, 463 
Judd, Jonathan, Rev., 419 
Judson, Charity, 656 
Judson, John, 656 
Judson, Joseph, 124 
Judson, Mary, 656 
June, Abner, 131, 134 
June, Betsy, 650 
June, Charles H., 224 
June, H. Frank, 264 



June, James, 463, 484, 657 

June, Kerrenhappuck, 551 

June, Nathaniel, 131, 134 

June, Peter, 463 

June, Rebecca G., 550 

June, Rhoda F., 603 

June, Silas, 131, 134 

June, Stephen, 131, 134, 135, 138 

June, Thomas, 225, 463 

June, William, 75 

June, WiUiam M., 250 

K 

Kady, Maledy, 82 
Kahle, Henry, 388 
Kalb, George M., 272 
Kane, Lawrence A., 266 
Keating, Martin, 218 

Keeler, , Captain, 126 

Keeler, Edwin, 199 
Keeler, Ezra, 199 
Keeler, Louisa, 545 
Keeler, Mary, 545 
Keeler, Nathan, 526 
Keeler, Oscar, 544 
Keeler, Samuel, Captain, 146 
Keeler, William, 545 
Keeler, William M., 357 
Kellogg, EUphalet, 509 
Kellogg, Jennie E., 572 
Kellogg, Margaret, 572 
Kellogg, Martin, Rev., 404 
Kellogg, William S., 572 
Kelly, James, 84 
Kelly, Joseph, 254 
Kelly, Joseph M., 239 
Kelly, Maurice, 79 
Kelly, Morris, 72, 77 
Kelly, Patrick, 219 
Kellyhat, William, 84 
Kelsey, Deliah, 535 
Kenealy, Michael, 367 
Kennedy, Lewis E., 257 
Kenney, Jacob, Jr., 72 
Kenney, Patrick, 124 
Kent, Halsey W., 276 
Ketcham, Benjam.in, 79, 83 
Ketcham, Joshua, 530 
Ketcham, Phebe, 635 
Ketcham, Samuel, 463, 610 
Kicker, Joseph, 136 
Kieft, William, 8, 10, 12, 16 
Kiley, Eugene, 254 
Kiley, James, Lieutenant, 253 
Kimball, Arthur S., 517, 521 
Kimball, Charles H., 521 
Kimball, Solomon S., 521 
Kimberly, David, 544 
Kimberly, Eliezer, 53 



732 



Index to Persons 



Kimberly, Ephraim, 83 
Kimbeiiy, Gideon, 540 
. Kinch, Elbert R., 250 
King, Charlotte, 641 
King George, 150 
King William, 53, 416, 606 
Kingsland, Rebecca, 668 
Kinmouth, Albert E., Rev., 404 
Kinney, John C, Captain, 266 
Kinney, Sara T., 285 

Kipp, , Captain, 178 

Kirk, Robert, 652 

Kirkham, John, 416 

Kirkham, O. C, Rev., 425 

Kirkum, John, 463 

Kitchell, Johanna, 630 

Kitchell, Robert, 630 

Klein, Alvin W., M.D., 377 

Knapp, — , 513, 548, 567, 619, 640, 

642 
Knapp, Abel, 603 
Knapp, Abigail, 596, 598, 602, 603, 

604, 606, 623 
Knapp, Abraham, 79, 600, 601, 606, 

622 
Knapp, Adam, 603 
Knapp, Albert, 397, 418 
Knapp, Alethea, 601 
Knapp, Alexander G., 581 
Knapp, Amos, 77, 82, 84, 601, 603 
Knapp, Amy, 173, 560, 599, 601 
Knapp, Andrew, 601 
Knapp, Ann, 600 
Knapp, Anna, 176, 599 
Knapp, Anna M., 597 
Knapp, Ard, 199, 204, 334, 346 
Knapp, Augustus, 597 
Knapp, Benjamin, 54, 66, 416, 463, 

464, 597, 598, 600, 602, 605,625,658 
Knapp, Benjamin, Jr., 419 
Knapp, Benjamin D., 397 
Knapp, Bertha A., 494 
Knapp, Bethia, 605, 606 
Knapp, Betsy, 605 
Knapp, Bouton, 602 
Knapp, Brush, 206 
Knapp, Caleb, Captain, 94, 289 
Knapp, Caleb, 54, 56,73,82,416,451, 

463, 464, 465, 530, 558, 560, 595, 

601, 602, 603, 657 
Knapp, Caleb, Jr., 463 
Knapp, Caroline H., 597 
Knapp, Carrie, 377 
Knapp, Carrie A., 494 
Knapp, Charity, 597 
Knapp, Charity B., 597, 601 
Knapp, Charles, 123, 124, 130, 135, 

139. 463. 602, 604, 605 
Knapp, Charles H., 391 
Knapp, Charles O., 597 



Knapp, Clarissa, 528 

Knapp, Clemence, 530, 558, 560, 601 

Knapp, Cora, 377 

Knapp, Cornelia, 176, 597, 599 

Knapp, Daniel, 79, 463, 600, 601, 603 

Knapp, David, 66, 75, 79, 181, 464, 

526, 600, 603, 604 
Knapp, Deborah, '600, 602, 603, 604, 

606 ' 
Knapp, Eben, 134, 601 
Knapp, Ebenezer, 74, 461, 464, 598, 

606 
Knapp, Edson, 587 
Knapp, Edwin A., 353, 359 
Knapp. Eleanor, 595 
Knapp, Eh, 82, 598 
Knapp, Elizabeth, 172, 173, 558, 595, 

598, 599, 600, 601, 603, 604, 605, 

606, 625, 640, 658 
Knapp, Elizabeth C, 596 
Knapp, EHzabeth H., 176, 599 
Knapp, Elnathan, 598 
Knapp, Emeline, 649 
Knapp, Enoch, 598 
Knapp, Enos, 135 
Knapp, Enos, Jr., 190 
Knapp, Epenetus, 605 
Knapp, Eunice, 558, 596, 597, 601, 

634 
Knapp, Eunice A., 597 
Knapp, Ezekiel, 129, 598, 600 
Knapp, Ezra, 88 
Knapp, Fanny, 176, 599 
Knapp, Frances, 176, 599 
Knapp, Fred D., Captain, 264, 276 
Knapp, George E., 494 
Knapp, Gideon, 605 
Knapp, Gilbert, 601 
Knapp, Hannah, 172, 519, 530, 548, 

578, 595- 596, 598, 599. 600, 601, 

602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 654 
Knapp, Hannah C, 597 
Knapp, Harriet, 622 
Knapp, Henry, 190, 598 
Knapp, Henry C, 597 
Knapp, Hezekiah, 605 
Knapp, Isaac, 131, 135, 190, 464, 578, 

595. 596, 597. 604, 606 
Knapp, Isabel, 600 
Knapp, Israel, Captain, 94, 169, 172, 

176, 598, 610 
Knapp, Israel, Jr., 118, 173, 176 
Knapp, Israel, 51, 152, 172, 173, 175, 

416, 417, 457, 459, 464, 465, 467, 

469, 474, 477, 519, 592, 598, 599, 604 
Knapp, Jabez, 606 
Knapp, Jacob, 604 
Knapp, James, 75, 138. 377, 416, 463, 

464, 564, 601, 603, 623 
Knapp, Jane, 606 



Index to Persons 



733 



Knapp, Jared, 598, 606 

Knapp, Jasper M., 597 

Knapp, Jemima, 606 

Knapp, Jeremiah, 130, 136 

Knapp, Joel, 600 

Knapp, John, Captain, 602 

Knapp, John, Lieutenant, 129, 603 

Knapp, John, 75, 464, 526, 598, 602, 

603 
Knapp, John, Jr., Lieutenant, 94 
Knapp, John, Jr., 602 
Knapp, John F., 597 
Knapp, Johnson, Jr., 136 
Knapp, Jonah, 127, 132 
Knapp, Jonas, 74, 84, 605 
^Knapp, Jonathan, 190, 464, 474, 585, 

595- 596, 602 
Knapp, Jonathan, Jr., 395, 596 
Knapp, Joseph, 48, 54, 66, 75, 123, 

126, 130, 135, 416, 449, 459, 463, 

464, 474. 478, 484. 577. 598, 600, 

601, 602 

Knapp, Josephine, 597 

Knapp, Joshua, 29, 30, 31, 34, 38, 42, 
44, 48, 52, 54, 56, 405, 463, 464, 
481, 483, 518, 595, 596, 597, 600, 

602, 604, 640, 654 
Knapp, Joshua, Jr., 464 
Knapp, Justus, 598, 601 
Knapp, Kate A., 597 
Knapp, Katie, 597 
Knapp, Luther, 606 

Knapp, Lydia, 595, 601, 602, 606, 607 
Knapp, Margaret, 592 
Knapp, Martha, 600, 603, 625 
Knapp, Mary, 172, 173, 578, 596, 599, 

600, 601, 604, 605 
Knapp, Mary B., 605 
Knapp, Mary E., 597 
Knapp, Mary L., 603 
Knapp, Matthew, 173, 599 
Knapp, Mills, 601 

Knapp, Moses, 465, 595, 606, 623 

Knapp, Nancy, 540 

Knapp, Nathan, 603 

Knapp, Nathaniel, 463, 465, 523, 596, 

601, 603, 634 

Knapp, Nathaniel A., 262, 263, 296, 

359. 597 
Knapp, Neasor, 129, 133 
Knapp, Nehemiah, 74, 95, 602 
Knapp, Nehemiah, jr., 181 
Knapp, Nezer, 601 
Knapp, Nicholas, 504, 538, 595 
Knapp, Noah, 603 

Knapp, Obadiah M., Major, 240, 258 
Knapp, Odle C, 359, 596 
Knapp, Oliver P., 494 
Knapp, Peter, 123, 596, 604 
Knapp, Phebe, 600, 606, 622 



Knapp, Phincas, 600 

Knapp, Prudence, 465, 599, 604 

Knapp, Rachel, 558, 596, 597, 600 

Knapp, Rachel C., 600 

Knapp, Rebecca, 598, 600, 602, 603, 

604, 641 
Knapp, Reuben, 598, 602 
Knapp, Roger, 546, 607 
Knapp, Rufus, 571, 605 
Knapp, Ruth, 173, 538, 544, 595, 598, 

599, 600, 601, 606 
Knapp, Sally, 606 
Knapp, Sally W., 176, 599 
Knapp, Samuel, Lieutenant, 602 
Knapp, Samuel, 82, 123, 124, 139, 

596, 597, 600, 601, 602, 604, 606 
Knapp, Sarah, 558, 559, 595, 597, 598, 

600, 601, 602, 604, 605, 606, 609, 
621, 640 

Knapp, Sarah A., 588 

Knapp, Sarah M., 597 

Knapp, Shubal, 128, 132, 596 

Knapp, Silas, 181, 596 

Knapp, Silas W., 346 

Knapp, Solomon, 128, 132, 601 

Knapp, Stephen, 129, 559, 598, 604 

Knapp, Susannah, 526, 596, 600, 604 

Knapp, Sylvanus, 581, 602, 605 

Knapp, Tamison, 606 

Knapp, Thankful, 603 

Knapp, Thomas, 173, 599, 603 

Knapp, Timothy, 44, 54, 172, 173, 

446, 447, 448, 451. 458, 463. 464. 

465, 466, 467, 477, 484, 511, 519, 

548, 595. 598, 599. 602 
Knapp, Titus, 123, 126, 128, 130, 132, 

135, 601, 609 
Knapp, Uriah, 601 
Knapp, Uzual, 137, 603 
Knapp, Walter, 601 
Knapp, Wilham, 59, 186, 333, 598, 

602, 605 
Knapp, WiUiam H. H., 240 
Knaufif, Christopher W., Rev., 422 
Kneeland, Henry, 362 
Kneeland, Margaret, 362 

Kniffen, , 686 

Kniffen, Ann, 505 
Kniffen, EUzabeth, 505 
Kniffen, Israel, 457 
Kniffen, Jonathan, 506 
Kniffen, Joseph, 507 
Kniffen, Nathan, Jr., 465 
Kniffen, Phebe, 507 
Kniffen, Polly, 684 
Kniffen, Samuel, 632 
Kniffen, Shubal, 649 
Kniffen, Tamar, 633 
Knight, James, 650 
Knight, Madam, 317 



734 



Index to Persons 



Knouse, William H., Rev., 412 
Knowlton, Farnham, 426 
Knowlton, George, 426 
Knowlton, Sarah E., 426 
Knox, Abraham, 636 
Kopp, John, Rev., 440 
Korrel, William, 128 
Kyle, Joshua, 254 



Labden, Cornelius, 14 

Laddin, Cornelius, 15 

Lafayette, Compte de Sahune, 273 

Lafayette, George W., 196 

Lafayette, Marquis de, General, 160, 

195 
Lahay, Thomas, 254 
Lamman, William, 139 

La Montague, , General, 160 

Landis, E. F., 273 
Lane, Abraham, 129 
Lane, Cornelius, 123 
Lane, George E., 254 
Lane, Josiah, 190 

Langdon, , 524 

Langlois, J. T., Rev., 428 

Lanier, Henry W., 396 

Lasby, Alexander, 124 

Lauder, George, Jr., 383 

Lawrence, Deborah, 553 

Lawrence, Edwin, 500 

Lawrence, Elsee E., 503 

Lawrence, James, 465, 477 

Lawrence, Jonathan, 124, 132 

Lawrence, Thomas, 657 

Laws, P. M., Rev., 443 

Leavens, George; Rev., 430 

Leavenworth, Abigail, 641 

Leavenworth, David, 641 

Lee, Charles H., 358 

Lee, Jesse, Rev., 427, 431 

Lee, Joseph, 79, 82 

Lee, Robert E., General, 237, 238, 

246, 256, 258 
Lee, WilHam, 124, 257 

Leeds, , 564 

Leeds, Abigail, 582 
Leeds, Hannah, 582 
Leeds, Rebecca, 582 

Leeke, , 531 

Leeke, William, 77 

Leekins, J. W., Rev., 444 

Lefevre, Amos D., 348 

Lefevre, F. W., Rev., 428 

Lefevre, Samuel, 348 

Leggett, Charles, 684 

Leggett, Robert, Colonel, 228, 231, 

^ 234 

Lehn, Christian, 439 



Lemly, Henry R., 627 
Lemman, William, 139 
Lent, EHjah, 650 
Lepley, Martin O., Rev., 433 
Lester, William, 397 
Levasseur, M. Auguste, 196 
Leverett, John, Captain, 103 
Leverich, William, Rev., 38, 403 
Levings, Noah, Rev., 429 

Lewis, , Commodore, 192 

Lewis, Beal, N., 392 

Lewis, Daniel, 504 

Lewis, Edward Z., 266 

Lewis, Foster, 77 

Lewis, George W., 266 

Lewis, Hannah, 585 

Lewis, Isaac, Rev., 126, 196, 197, 406, 

410 
Lewis, Isaac, Jr., Rev., 406 
Lewis, Jacob, 465 
Lewis, James, 82 
Lewis, John, 547 
Lewis, Mary, 656 
Lewis, Susannah, 504 
Lewis, Thomas, 84, 138, 465 
Lewis, William J., 77 
Lickqueer, Johanus, 465 
Light, David, 250 
Light, James H., 250 
Lightbourn, Albert W., Rev., 404 
Lightbourne, J. H., Rev., 433 
Lincoln, Abraham, 201, 221 
Lincoln, Warren, Rev., 426 
Lindsley, Anson C, 588 
Lines, Samuel, 564 
Liney, John, 619 
Linkiiter, George, 135 
Linsley, G. T., Rev., 420 
Linsley, Jeannette, 400 
Linsley, Joel, Rev., 400, 405, 407 
Little, E. W., 275 
Little, Sarah, 565 
Littlewood, Thomas D., Rev., 435 
Lloyd, George, 254 
Lloyd, John, 465 
Lloyd, Samuel, 240 
Lloyd, Thomas, 240 

Lobdell, , 72 

Lobdell, Ebenezer, 72, 77, 624 
Lobdell, Uriah, 82 
Lockhart, William, 191 

Lockwood, , 541, 621, 639 

Lockwood, Abigail, 465, 538, 541, 607 
Lockwood, Abraham, 74 
Lockwood, Alfred W., 364 
Lockwood, Ann, 542, 555 
Lockwood, Anne, 637 
Lockwood, Azariah, 131, 135 
Lockwood, Benjamin, 429, 465 
Lockwood, Caleb, 79, 130, 136, 465 



Index to Persons 



735 



Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 

466 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 

678 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 

605 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 

119, 124 

453- 454 
466, 467 

542, 545. 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 

122, 470 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 

609 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 

467 
Lockwood, 

416, 487, 
Lockwood, 
Lockwood, 



Charles, 130, 136, 545 
Daniel, 181, 465, 607, 678 
David, Captain, 95 
David, 126, 139, 398, 465, 

David, Jr., 190, 465 
Deborah, 528, 607, 660, 

Denison, 660 

Edmund, 644 

Edward, 559 

E. Dunbar, 607 

E. Frank, Captain, 356 

Egbert, 224 

Ehakim, 242 

EUphalet, 138 

Elizabeth, 150, 502, 605 

Elnathan, 124, 135 

Ely, 126 

Enos, 119, 195, 538, 603, 

Ephraim, 77, 607 
Ezekiel, Ensign, 75, 95 
Ezekiel, 395, 466, 467 
Frederick, 190, 363 
Frederick M., 421 
George, 136, 190 
George A., 513 
Gershom, 31, 47,48, 56, 

129, 132, 134, 416, 448, 
, 457, 458, 460, 462, 465, 
, 480, 485, 487, 502, 522, 
555, 607, 609 
Gershom, Sr., 54, 448, 468 

Gershom, Jr., 54, 120, 

Gertrude L., 364 
Gilbert, 181, 466 
Hanford, 359 
Hannah, 398, 466, 555, 

Hannah M., 555 

Henry, 190 

Henry B., 254 

Henry S., Captain, 355 

Hezekiah, 66, 84, 416, 466, 

Israel, 124 

Jabez, 84, 466 

Jacob, 79, 130, 135 

James, Major, 290 

James, Lieutenant, 95 

James, 131 

Jared, 124, 139 

Jemima, 521 

Jeremiah, 72, 74, 118, 466, 

John, 77, 130, 136, 190, 
555. 607 
John H., 190 
John L., 333 



Lockwood, John R., 126 

Lockwood, Jonathan, Lieutenant, 30, 
31. 32, 34. 35. 38. 47. 50, 289, 450, 
465, 466, 467, 484, 486, 545, 607 

Lockwood, Jonathan, 48, 51, 240,416, 

467, 527, 537. 615 
Lockwood, Jonathan, Jr., 48, 466 
Lockwood, Jonathan, 3d, 136 
Lockwood, Jonathan, 4th, 182 
Lockwood, Joseph, Captain, 526 
Lockwood, Joseph, 51, 54, 95, 124, 

139, 462, 465, 466, 467, 551, 601, 

607 
Lockwood, Joseph, Sr., 449 
Lockwood, Joseph H., 304 
Lockwood, Joshua, 79 
Lockwood, J. Albert, 253, 274, 278 
Lockwood, Laura W., 545 
Lockwood, Letitia, 540, 555 
Lockwood, Luke A., 260, 294, 353, 

363, 420, 421 
Lockwood, Luke V., 261, 296, 299, 

364 
Lockwood, Mary, 467, 542, 543, 544, 

577. 603, 607, 622 
Lockwood, Mary A., 363, 639 
Lockwood, Mary J., 545 
Lockwood, Mary L., 364 
Lockwood, Millington, 130, 182 
Lockwood, Milton, 135 
Lockwood, Morris, 190 
Lockwood, Moses, 74,76,79,131, 135, 

139 

Lockwood, Nancy, 528, 660 
Lockwood, Nathan, 75, 466, 467, 480 
Lockwood, Nathaniel, 75, 417, 448, 

467, 599 
Lockwood, Nelson N., 299 
Lockwood, Noah, Jr., 190 
Lockwood, Peter, 410 
Lockwood, PhiHp, 130, 135 
Lockwood, Rachel, 510 
Lockwood, Reuben, 128, 132 
Lockwood, Richard, 190 
Lockwood, Robert, 44, 48, 50, 54, 77, 

84, 465, 467, 537, 577. 598. 607 
Lockwood, Rose, 673 
Lockwood, Ruth, 467 
Lockwood, Samuel, Captain, 139 
Lockwood, Samuel, Lieutenant, 123, 

124 
Lockwood, Samuel, 51, 63, 74, 95, 

465, 467 
Lockwood, Samuel, Jr., 95, 122 
Lockwood, Samuel B., 355 
Lockwood, Sarah, 467, 607 
Lockwood, Sarah H., 543 
Lockwood, Shubal, 191 
Lockwood, Silas, 660 
Lockwood, Solomon, 135, 524 



736 



Index to Persons 



Lockwood, Stephen, 84, 593 
Lockwood, Still John, 50, 465, 466, 

467, 476 
Lockwood, Susannah, 536, 577, 598, 

607 
Lockwood, Theodora L., 364 
Lockwood, Theophilus, 466, 467, 519, 

555 
Lockwood, Timothy, Captain, 95 
Lockwood, Timothy, Lieutenant, 73, 

80, 144, 147 
Lockwood, Timothy, 139 
Lockwood, Titus, 606 
Lockwood, Uriah, 333 
Lockwood, William, 47, 493 
Lockwood, William F., 364 
Lockwood, William H., 240 
Lockwood, William M., 544 
Loder, John, 77 
Lombard, Joseph A., 240 
Long, R. J. M., Rev., 443 
Long, William, 240 
Loomis, Dwight, 309 
Lord Dartmouth, 104 
Lotz, John, 294 
Louden, James, 254 
Louden, John, 133 
Loudon, John A., 250 
Loudon, Merritt A., 250 
Loudon, Samuel, 389 
Loudon, Silas D., 240 
Loudon, S. Garfield, 389 
Lovidon, Warren E., 389 
Loudon, William A., 257 

Lounsbury, , 679 

Lounsbury, E. T., Rev., 428 
Lounsbury, George, 273 
Lounsbury, George D., 555 
Lounsbury, Hannah, 643 
Lounsbury, Henry, 641 
Lounsbury, Jane, 490 
Lounsbury, Jemima, 672 
Lounsbury, John, 499 
Lounsbury, Nathaniel, 490 
Lounsbury, Peter, 138 
Lounsbury, Polly, 490 
Lounsbury, Sarah A., 555 
Lovejoy, John, Rev., 430, 432 
Low, John W., Colonel, 273 
Lowrey, William, 240 
Lowy, John, 389 
Lues, Jam.es, 82 
Luqueer, Johannes, 519 
Lyman, Amos M., 277 
Lyman, Phineas, General, 71, 73, 74, 

78, 80, 81, 83 
Lynch, Patrick, 215 

Lyon, , 489 

Lyon, Abigail, 495, 558, 564, 598, 
607, 632 



Lyon, Amos, 129, 133, 624 

Lyon, Andrew, 517 

Lyon, Augustus, 334, 347, 397 

Lyon, Benjamin W., 580 

Lyon, Caleb, 127, 133, 324, 467, 589 

Lyon, Caleb, Jr., 122 

Lyon, Catherine, 364 

Lyon, Charity, 499 

Lyon, Charles, 624 

Lyon, Daniel, 133, 467, 496, 564, 590, 

652 
Lyon, David, 189, 468, 671, 684 
Lyon, Deborah, 558, 607, 613 
Lyon, Elias, 498 
Lyon, Eliza A., 571 
Lyon, Elizabeth, 468, 496, 501, 564, 

580, 590, 607, 608, 622 
Lyon, Enon, 580 
Lyon, Eunice, 589 
Lyon, Floyd, 189 
Lyon, Frederick W., 358 
Lyon, Gilbert, 289, 468, 613, 632 
Lyon, Hannah, 173, 519, 614 
Lyon, Henry W., 266 
Lyon, Isaac, 318 
Lyon, Israel, 589 
Lyon, J., Rev., 428 
Lyon, James, 497, 500, 552, 579, 615 
Lyon, Jane, 632 
Lyon, Jane A., 616 
Lyon, Jerusha, 590 
Lyon, Job, 129, 134, 155, 318, 564 
Lyon, John, Captain, 95 
Lyon, John, 57, 449, 457, 495, 519, 

607, 683 
Lyon, John, Sr., 468 
Lyon, John, Jr., 50, 95, 468 
Lyon, Jonathan, Captain, 95 
Lyon, Jonathan, 468 
Lyon, Joseph, 128, 132, 468, 519, 607 
Lyon, Joseph, Jr., 519 
Lyon, Joshua, 240, 632 
Lyon, Lydia, 576 
Lyon, Martha, 683 
Lyon, Mary, 175, 497, 517, 580, 598, 

607, 683 
Lyon, Mary L., 364 
Lyon, Merritt, 189 
Lyon, Michael, 240 
Lyon, Moses, Rev., 430, 433 
Lyon, Moses, 500 
Lyon, N., 329 
Lyon, Nancy M., 579 
Lyon, Noah, 123, 124, 134 
Lyon, Phebe, 580, 683 
Lyon, Pruella, 649 
Lyon, Rachel P., 580 
Lyon, Rebecca, 499, 523 
Lyon, Richard, 501 
Lyon, Richard T., 251 



Index to Persons 



737 



Lyon, Roger, 686 

Lyon, Ruth, 516 

Lyon, Samuel, 54, 189, 446, 468, 607 

Lyon, Samuel A., 240 

Lyon, Sarah, 496, 517, 607, 615 

Lyon, Shubal, 189 

Lyon, Stephen, 182 

Lyon, Susannah, 579, 615 

Lyon, Thaddeus, 611 

Lyon, Theodore, 550 

Lyon, Thomas, 54, 175, 468, 487, 495, 

499. 557. 558, 598, 607, 608, 683 
Lyon, Thomas, Sr., 48 
Lyon, Thomas, Jr., 48 
Lyon, William, 75 
Lyon, William J., 627 
Lyon, William L., 301, 364 
Lyon, Zalmon, Rev., 428, 430 
Lyons, A. B., M.D., 607 

Mc 

McAllister, Alexander, Rev., 430, 433 
McCann, Charles W., 240 
McCann, John, 240 
McCarty, Catharine, 653 
McChesney, Laura, 503 
McComb, Jennie, 420 
McComb, John R., 421 
McComb, Joseph G., 389 
McCord, WilHam H., 296 
McCue, James L., 239 
McCutcheon, James, 296, 299, 397 
McDonald, James, 240 
McElroy, James, 250 
McFarland, Peter, Rev., 422 
McGauhan, Alexander J., 391 
McGee, James, 224 
McGregory, Duncan, 84 
McGuire, Peter, 254 
McGuire, William W., Rev., 435 
Mclntyre, James, 214 
McKay, Ephraim, 140 
McKay, Mary, 575 
McKeever, George, 390 
McKenzie, Gilbert A., 217 
McKinney, John, 137 
McLean, Donald, Mrs., 274 
McMahon, John, 218 
McMasters, Wells, 394 
McMuUen, James, 82, 84 
McNall, George G., 296, 359, 365 
McNamara, Francis, 225 
McNickoU, William, Rev., 430 
McTavey, Francis, 254 

M 

Maccoy, Abraham, 134 
MacCullough, James H., 351 



Macintosh, George A., 38 
Mackay, John, 63, 88, 115-119 
Mackay, John, Jr., 599 
Mackcall, Angus, 136 
Magill, William I., Rev., 420 
Maguire, James E., 250 
Maher, Daniel, 294, 388, 389 
Maher, James, 336 
Maher, John, 166, 296 
Maher, Joseph, 389 
Mahoney, Edward, 254 
Mahoney, John L., 386 
Malin, Michael, 254 

Mallett, , Colonel, 228 

Mallock, Richard, 669 
Mallory, Charles, 296 
Maltby, Mary, 676 
Mandor, Richard, 72 
Mangrel, Richard, 74 
Manion, Patrick, 240 
Mann, Joel, Rev., 407 
Manning, Samuel, 123, 125 
Manvil, Lila A., 393 
Marks, Amasa A., 294 ■ 
Marks, George E., 296 
Marsh, Jonathan, 468 

Marshall, , 556 

Marshall, Aaron, 608 

Marshall, Abigail, 462, 468, 469, 608, 

609, 611, 612 
Marshall, Abraham, 610 
Marshall, Abraham F., 610 
Marshall, Alethea, 610 
Marshall, Alexander, 59, 612 
Marshall, Amy, 175, 599. 610, 611 
Marshall, Andrew, 122, 136, 610 
Marshall, Andrew, Jr., 560 
Marshall, Ann, 608 
Marshall, Ann M., 610 
Marshall, Anne, 608 
Marshall, Arza, 612 
Marshall, Augusta, 612 
Marshall, Azader, 623 
Marshall, A. W. W., 360, 383 
Marshall, Bethia, 612 
Marshall, Caroline, 609 
Marshall, Caroline M., 610 
Marshall, Charity, 611 
Marshall, Clayton, 377 
Marshall, Daniel, 136, 457, 462, 465, 

468, 469, 608, 610, 611 
Marshall, David, 468, 469, 608, 609 
Marshall, Deborah, 59, 608, 610, 611 
Marshall, Delia A., 612 
Marshall, Drake S., 240 
Marshall, Edmund, 611 
Marshall, Edward, 515, 610 
Marshall, Eli, 611 
Marshall, Elihu, 468, 609 
Marshall, Eliza, 612 



738 



Index to Persons 



Marshall, Elizabeth, 609, 610, 611, 

612 
Marshall, Elvin F., 612 
Marshall, Enoch Y., 250 
Marshall, Ephraim, 61 1 
Marshall, Ezra, 136, 611 
Marshall, Fanny, 611 
Marshall, Francis, 609 
Marshall, Freelove, 611 
Marshall, George, 612 
Marshall, George W., 334 
Marshall, Gilbert, 128, 431, 609, 610 
Marshall, Hannah, 468, 502, 563, 608, 

609, 610, 611, 612 
Marshall, Henry, 608, 609, 611, 612 
Marshall, Henry B., 296, 359, 383, 

384. 393 

Marshall, Herman, 277 

Marshall, Hickford, 612 

Marshall, Howard E., 299 

Marshall, Ichabod, 609 

Marshall, Isaac, 128, 133, 611 

Marshall, James, 608, 609 

Marshall, James L., M.D., 264, 377 

Marshall, Jehu, 468, 609 

Marshall, Jeremiah, 79 

Marshall, Jerome M., 608 

Marshall, Jerusha, 608 

Marshall, Jessie, 612 

Marshall, Jessie A., 607 

Marshall, John, 31, 32, 75, 250, 334, 
409, 447, 449, 468, 469, 472, 479, 
480, 607, 608, 611, 615, 677 

Marshall, John, Sr., 48, 54, 446, 468 
John, Jr., 54, 465, 468, 469, 



Marshall 

609 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 



472, 599, 608, 609 



Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
609, 61 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 



John E., 612 
John W., 254 
Joseph, 139, 175, 457. 469. 



Joseph, Jr., 453, 469, 477 
Joseph D., 612 
Joseph H., 610 
Joseph T., 610 
Josiah, 611 
Judith, 608, 609 
Justus, 608 
Lavinia, 611 
Leslie G., 610 
Letitia, 608 
Lydia, 609 
Martha, 612, 615 
Mary, 469, 549, 599, 608, 
o, 611, 612 
Mary A., 503 
Mead, 75 
Micajah, 469, 609 
Moses, 608 
Nancy, 611 
Nathaniel, 462, 611 



Marshall, Nehemiah, 462, 611, 612 
Marshall, Oliver, 608 
Marshall, Orpha, 608, 611 
Marshall, Peter, 74, 611 
Marshall, Phebe, 612 
Marshall, Polly B., 610 
Marshall, Rachel, 611, 624 
Marshall, Rebecca, 608, 612 
Marshall, Sabrina, 610 
Marshall, Sally, 611, 612 
Marshall, Samuel, 79, 457, 462, 468, 

469, 549, 611, 612 
Marshall, Samuel, Jr., 468 
Marshall, Sarah, 608, 609, 610, 611, 

612 
Marshall, Sarah A., 610 
Marshall, Sarah E., 377, 610 
Marshall, Seymour, 611 
Marshall, Silas, 74, 611 
Marshall, Sophia, 497 
Marshall, Stephen, 63, 136, 609, 610, 

623 
Marshall, Stephen A., 610 
Marshall, Susannah, 610 
Marshall, Sylvanus, Captain, 140, 142 
Marshall, Sylvanus, Lieutenant, 137, 

146 
Marshall, Sylvanus, 128, 133, 612 
Marshall, Thaddeus, 469, 609, 610 
Marshall, Thomas, 55, 82, 84, 136, 

314, 458, 479, 480, 607, 608, 611 
Marshall, Thomas, Jr., 462 
Marshall, Thya, 612 
Marshall, Walter, 612 
Marshall, William, 181, 609 
Marshall, William A., 612 
Marshall, William H., Lieutenant? 

239 

Marshall, William J., 377 
Marshall, WiUiam S., 377 
Marshall, Zaccheus, 609 
Marsland, Isaac, Rev., 430 
Martin, Carl E., 285 
Martin, James, 72 
Martin, William W., Rev., 435 
Martindale, S., Rev., 428 
MartHng, John B., 498 
Marvin, Edwin, 579 
Marvin, Hannah, 646 
Marvin, Lewis, 552 
Marvin, Martha, 552 
Marvin, Matthew, 646 
Marvin, Sarah, 502 
Marvin, Susannah, 552 
Mashel, Peter, 74 
Mash el, Silas, 74 
Maskell, Henry, 218 

Mason, , Captain, loi 

Mason, Myron L., 365, 393 
Mather, , Rev., 39 



.mi 



Index to Persons 



739 



Matthews, John, 138, 417, 469 
Matthews, John B., 240 
Matthews, Sarah A., 650 
Matthews, WilUam, 632 
Matthias, John B., Rev., 430, 432 
Matthias, WiUiam, 632 
Mattison, Juha, 628 

Mayless, , 574 

Mayo, Thomas, 335, 353 

-, 547, 548, 556, 629, 640, 



Mead 
641 

Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

126 
Mead 

127 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

118 

395 

Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

159 

Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

579 

Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
470 
542 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

473 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

536 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 



Abel, 131, 135, 660 

Abigail, 536, 567 

Abraham, Captain, 95, 123, 

128, 133, 153-155. 159. 571 

Abraham, 58, 63, 120, 122, 

318, 392 

Abraham, 3d, 123 

Abraham D., 318 

Alan, 148 

Albert S., 383 

Alexander, 269, 361 

Alvan, 196, 301, 397 

Amelia, 318, 393 

Amos, M.D., 78, 85, 90, 115- 

140, 145, 160, 169, 184, 377, 

516 

Amos, 58, 378, 469 
Amy, 560, 641 
Andrew, Captain, 157, 158, 

Andrew, 123, 129, 140, 560 

Ann, 522 

Anna, 147, 148, 571 

Anne, 536 

Augustus, 198, 199, 352, 354, 

Augustus I., 292, 296 
Azuba, 615 

Benjamin, 55, 75, I47. 409. 
472, 473. 482, 507. 538, 541. 
570, 674 

Benjamin, Jr., Lieutenant, 95 
Benjamin, Jr., 116, 118, 470 
Benjamin C, 277, 366 
Bethia, 531 
Beverly E., 275 
Bush, 189, 191 
Caleb, Captain, 137 
Caleb, Lieutenant, 75, 96 
Caleb, 57, 136, 395, 470, 471, 
476, 558, 567. 640, 644, 660 
Calvin, 133, 155,410,411 
Charity, 567, 596 

Charles, 129, 134, 470, 477, 

Clarissa, 663 
Clarkson S., M.D., 378 
Corneha A., 362 
Cornelius, 359 



Mead 

Mead 

480 

Mead 

365 

Mead: 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

526 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

290 
Mead 

290 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

58, 

397 

556 
Mead 
Mead 

194 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead, 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead: 

520 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead, 
Mead: 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

470 

571 
Mead 
Mead 



Cyrus, 523 

Daniel, 55, 128, 133, 470, 479, 

483 

Daniel M., Major, 239, 278, 

Darius, M.D., 378, 379 

Darius, 411 

Darius, Jr., 397 

David, 127, 129, 134, 457, 470, 

600 

David, Jr., 470 

David B., 523 

David W., Lieutenant, 249 

Deborah, 373, 507, 516, 527 

Deliverance, 57, 75, 168, 570 

Drake, Colonel, 290, 418 

Ebenezer, General, 167, 192, 

Ebenezer, Colonel, 166, 167, 

Ebenezer, Captain, 96 
Ebenezer, Rev., 407 
Ebenezer, 42, 44, 48, 50, 55, 56, 
60, 136, 153, 186, 196, 377, 392, 
405, 470, 471, 476, 486, 505, 
557. 560, 567, 589. 606 
Ebenezer, Jr., Colonel, 290 
Ebenezer, Jr., Major, 189, 192, 

Ebenezer, Jr., 96, 470, 601 
Edmund, 122, 133, 189 
Edward, 365, 616 
Eli, 129, 133 
Elijah, 75, 123, 139, 558 
Eliphalet, 79, 395, 409, 470 
Elisha, 55, 470, 472, 486, 540 
Elisha B., M.D., 378 
Elizabeth, 470, 557, 610 
Elizabeth R., 318 
Elkanah, 131, 186, 550, 578 
Elnathan, 449, 458, 470, 471, 

Ely, 512, 527 

Enoch, 123, 127, 132, 329 

Epenetus, 129 

Ephraim, 392, 615 

Esbon, 129 

Eunice, 520 

Ezekiel, 470 

Frances, 529 

Frances C., 549 

Frank E., 383 

Gershom, 72, 470 

Gilbert, 470 

Halsey, 128, 596 

Hannah, 50, 366, 377, 379, 426, 

499. 529. 540, 550, 556, 558, 

575.578,611,643 

Hardy, 509 

Harriet, 361 



740 



Index to Persons 



Mead 
Mead 

1 68 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead, 
Mead 

558 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

470 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

529 

Mead 

Mead 

Mead 

Mead 

155 

557 

Mead 

132 

Mead 

Mead 

Mead 

Mead, 

48, 

472 

Mead 

Mead 

Mead 

Mead 

Mead 

589 
Mead 
Mead 
456 
486 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

71, 
366 

612 



Harrj? A., 271 

Henry, 49, 70, 75, 76, 129,133, 

169, 536 

Henry, Jr., 130, 133 

Henry H., 240 

Hezeiciah, 470 

Htddah, 176 

Isaac, 470, 471, 557 

Isaac H., 378 

Isaac L., 166, 250, 302, 359 

Israel, 134, 470, 471, 473, 640 

Jabez, Captain, 96 

Jabez, 51, 167, 463, 471, 556, 

591 

Jabez, Jr., 57, 397. 557 
Jacob, 131, 135, 471 
James, Lieutenant, 79, 80 
James, Ensign, 69, 78 
James, 74, 77, 189, 436, 457, 

James E., 241 

James R., 366 

Jane, 550 

Jared, 136, 159, 169, 392, 655 

Jasper, 130 

Jehiel, Lieutenant, 137, 146 

Jehiel, 122, 129, 411 

Jemima, 606 

Jeremiah, 83, 126, 471, 472, 

Jeremiah, Jr., 123 

Jesse, 75, 79, 84, 123, 128, 132 

Job, 189, 392 

John, General, 127, 148-151, 

172, 182, 184, 280, 290, 513, 

John, Colonel, 118, 119, 127, 

I43> 193 
John, Major, 96 
John, Captain, 96, 471 
John, Lieutenant, 96 
John, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 
52, 88, 90, 149, 193, 470, 471. 
473. 485. 545. 612, 663 
John, Sr., 32, 39, 40, 48, 402 
John, Jr., 39, 40, 48, 402, 471 
John, 3d, 123, 127, 132 
John K., 357 
Jonah, 123, 129, 134, 529, 575, 

Jonas, 196,471. 541. 571 
Jonathan, 48, 55, 130, 133, 139, 
459,460, 470, 471, 472, 473, 

529. 549. 567. 675 
Jonathan, Sr., 471 
Jonathan, Jr., 472, 581 
Joseph, 31, 36, 37, 48, 52, 55, 
75. 76, 79. 80, 130, 131, 133, 
, 451, 470, 472, 473, 527, 610, 



Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead: 
Mead: 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

612 
Mead 

526 

644 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

129 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead: 
Mead 
Mead 

133 
516 

Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
119 
650 
Mead 
Mead: 

394 

Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
398 
Mead 



Joseph, Sr., 32, 48 
Joseph, Jr., 472 
Joshua, 66, 378, 410, 470, 596 
Josiah, 82, 472, 609 
Jotham, 133, 181 
Justus, 471, 472 
Justus B., 567 
Kezia, 570 
Laura, 514, 591 
Lavinia, 499 
Leander, 550 
Levi, 155, 411, 542 
Lewis, Rev., 523 
Libbeus, 142 
Lockwood, 129, 134 
Lois, 563 
Louisa, 318 
Louisa S., 366 
Lucretia, 361 
Lucy, 571 
Luke, 189 
Lydia, 362 
Lyman, 361 

Mark, Rev., 166, 379, 404 
Mark, 571 
Marshall, 136 
Martha, 472, 567, 591, 602, 

659 

Mary, 147, 149, 378, 471, 523, 
535. 542, 558, 572; 575. 610, 
675 

Mary E., 366, 378 
Mary H., 615 

Matthew, Captain, 96, 119, 
132, 169, 516, 610 
Matthew, Ensign, 83 
Matthew, 122, 164, 556, 610 
Mehitable, 151 
Milo, 387, 440 
Moses, 472 

Nathan, 456, 472, 473, 486 
Nathaniel, 55, 62, 72, 75, 128, 
395, 470, 472, 478, 480, 505, 
527. 539. 596, 675 
Nathaniel, Jr., 75, 116, 122 
Nathaniel, 3d, 130 
Nathaniel, 4th, 122 
Nehemiah, 57,63, 86, 117, 118, 
176, 472, 531, 557, 571, 605, 

Nehemiah, Jr., 118 

Nelson B., 295, 296, 299, 393, 

Nemiah, 133, 136 

Neiniah, Jr., 130 

NetUs, 134 

Noah, 392 

Oba^iah, 130, 133, 147, 198, 

473. 670 

01iv(k, 318 



Index to Persons 



741 



Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
196 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

539 

Mead 
Mead 

473 

Mead 
512 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

454 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

571 

Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

533 

Mead 
Mead 

550 
Mead 

558 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 

137 

Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 
Mead 



Oliver D., 360, 362 

Pamelia, 610 

Peter, 88, 118, 129, 157, 179, 

392, 473. 528, 567, 571 

Peter, Jr., 122 

Phebe, 147, 650 

Phebe R., 660 

PoUy, 650 

Prudence, 527 

Rachel, 378, 379, 509, 512, 529, 

Rebecca, 596, 640, 660 
Reuben, 49, 125, 130, 136, 470, 

Richard, 129, 159, 160, 392, 

Robert W., 300 

Rogers, 189 

Ruth, 55, 473 

Sadie, 393 

Samuel, Lieutenant, 96 

Samuel, 50, 55, 138, 139, 449, 

468,470,471,473,507 

Samuel, Jr., 458, 473 

Sanford, 335, 591 

Sarah, 318, 520, 528, 538, 557, 

589, 660, 663, 675 

Sarah A., 512 

Sarah C, 147 

S. Cristy, 366 

Seaman, 275 

Seaman M., Captain, 291, 292 

Seaman M., 271 

Selah, 189, 191 

Seth, Captain, 189 

Seth, 180, 373 

Shadrach, M.D., 379 

Shadrach, 558, 593 

Silas, 409, 473 

Silas, jr., 122, 130, 133 

Silas E., 241, 296 

Silas H., 398, 409, 411 

Smith, 158 

Solomon, 129, 134, 268, 366, 

Solomon S., 147 
Spencer P., 495, 503, 517, 533, 
569, 576, 607, 613, 618, 630 
Stephen, 131, 135, 136, 172, 

599 

Susan A. E., 365 

Susannah, 589 

Sylvanus, Captain, 121, 122, 

145-147, 192 

Sylvanus, Lieutenant, 126 

Sylvanus, Corporal, 79 

Sylvester, M.D., 353, 379 

Thaddeus, 119, 120, 560, 663 

Theodosia, 147, 527 

Theophilus, 472, 473 



Mead, Thomas A., Colonel, 160, 196, 

197, 198, 199, 290, 354, 366, 397 
Mead, Thomas R., Captain, 239 
Mead, Timothy, 463, 471, 473 
Mead, Titus, 117, 119, 120, 134, 140, 

174. 379. 558 
Mead, Uriah, 126 
Mead, Watson N., 251 
Mead, Whitman, 192 
Mead, Whitman S., 293, 337, 342 
Mead, William, 123, 125, 255, 366, 

522, 612 
Mead, William H., 397 
Mead, William J., 213, 353 
Mead, William M., 550 
Mead, Zaccheus, 130, 199. 392. 528 
Mead, Zachariah, 55, 240, 472, 473 
Mead, Zebediah, 69, 409 
Mead, Zebulon, 611 
Mead, Zenas, 354, 392 
Mead, Zophar, 318, 353, 392 
Measurall, Christian, 79 
Meeker, Mary, 489 
Meeker, Robert, 489 
Mercer, Kate, 394 

Merritt, , 631, 652 

Merritt, Abraham, 132, 189 
Merritt, Amy, 506, 613, 614 
Merritt, Anderson, 614 
Merritt, Andrew, 614 
Merritt, Ann, 616 
Merritt, Anna, 617 
Merritt, Anne, 505 
Merritt, Annie E., 369, 616 
Merritt, Benjamin, 189 
Merritt, Benoni, 615 
Merritt, Caleb, 473, 613, 617 
Merritt, Caleb W., 334, 409. 419- 581, 

616 
Merritt, Caroline, 594, 614 
Merritt, Charles, 616 
Merritt, Charles E., 359, 383 
Merritt, Cynthia, 616 
Merritt, Cynthia W., 616 
Merritt, Daniel, 116, 119, 130, 182, 

192, 334. 397. 473. 517. 553. 556, 

590, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 649 
Merritt, Daniel B., 616 
Merritt, David, 617, 667 
Merritt, Ebenezer, 615 
Merritt, Edward, 615 
Merritt, Elisha, 617 
Merritt, Elizabeth, 553, 613, 614, 615, 

617 
Merritt, Emma, 580 
Merritt, Ephraim, 617 
Merritt, Ephraim M., 352 
Merritt, Esther, 613 
Merritt, Ezekiel, 182 
Merritt, Gabriel, 617 



742 



Index to Persons 



Merr 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr: 
Merr; 
Merr 
Merr: 

553 
Merr: 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr: 
Merr: 
Merr 

614 
Merr: 
Merr: 
Merr 
Merr 

617 
Merr:" 
Merr: 
Merr 
Merr: 
Merr: 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr 

617 
Merr:" 
Merr 
Merr: 
Merr: 

686 
Merr: 
Merr: 
Merr 
Merr: 

684 
Merr" 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr: 
Merr 
Merr: 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr: 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr 
Merr: 
Merr: 
Merr: 



George, 617, 635 
George W., 383, 615 
Gilbert, 614 
Glorianna, 617 
Hannah, 613, 614, 615 
Harriet, 614 
Henry, 613, 616 
Humphrey, 617 
Ichabod, 617 
Isaac, 256 

James, 128, 132, 181, 189, 
I3> 614 

James D., 613 
James H., 265 
Jane, 617 

Jedediah P., 265, 268 
Jeremiah, 614 

John, 132, 473, 506, 552-613, 
15, 616, 631 
John A., 431 
John J., 613 
Jonathan, 382, 614, 686 
Joseph, 613, 614, 615, 616, 

Joseph G., 616 

Josiah, 617, 635 

Jotham, 206, 614, 616 

Julia, 369 

Lewis A., 334, 575, 580, 615 

Loretta, 431, 610 

Lot, 616 

Mary, 520, 552, 613, 614, 

Mary W., 615 

Matthew, 369 

Mercy, 615 

Nathan, 181, 473, 613, 685, 

Nathaniel, 614 
Nehemiah, 614, 616, 667 
Peter, 125 
Phebe, 613, 614, 616, 635, 

Prudence, 614 
Rachel, 613, 614, 634 
Rebecca, 553, 556 
Reuben, 613 
Robert, 614 

Ruth, 613, 616, 631, 685 
Samuel, 617 
Sarah, 590, 613, 616 
Sarah L., 590, 616 
Shubal, 144 
Solomon, 132 
Solomon, Jr., 181, 189 
Susan, 613 
Susan A. E., 616 
Sylvanus, 613 
Tamar, 617 
Theodore, 616 



Merritt, Thomas, 165, 265, 467, 537, 

545, 612, 614, 615, 616, 631 
Merritt, Wesley, 616 
Merritt, Whitman, 255 
Merritt, William, 178, 189, 617 
Merritt, Willis, 616 
Merritt, Willis J., 334, 615 
Mertz, Frank C, 351 
Mertz, George, 351 
Mertz, George E., 351 
Mertz, Louis C, 351 
Mervin, Matthew, Jr., 502 
Mervin, Miles, 643 
Mervin, Sarah, 502 

Merwin, , 489, 648 

Merwin, Samuel E., 277, 279 
Mesnard, Mary, 497 
Messenger, Andrew, 6, 7, 461 
Messenger, Horace H., 225 
Messenger, Michael, 72, 74 
Middlebrook, James, 683 
Middlebrook, Phebe, 683 

Middleton, , Captain, 277 

Middleton, George "W., Captain, 253 

Midwinter, John, 345 

Milbank, Jeremiah, 353 

Milbank, Jeremiah, Mrs., 393 

Miles, Elisha S., 241 

Miles, Frederick, 277 

Miles, Joseph, 258 

Miles, Nelson A., General, 273 

Miley, Thomas, 254 

Millar, Allan P., 628 

Millard, Frank. 220 

Millard, Samuel, 220 

Miller, , Chaplain, 277 

Miller, Abigail, 684 

Miller, Abraham, 473, 552 

Miller, Abraham, Jr., 473 

Miller, Amanda, 426 

Miller, Ann E., 553 

Miller, Bethia, 635 

Miller, Burtis, 254 

Miller, B. C, Rev., 428 

Miller, Charles E., Rev., 435 

Miller, Dorothy, 531 

Miller, Esther, 637 

Miller, Gilbert, 614 

Miller, John, 568 

Miller, Jonathan, 500, 567 

Miller, Kezia, 500 

Miller, Mary, 552, 568 

Miller, Mary M., 393, 394 

Miller, Nathan C, 497 

Miller, Philip, 631 

Miller, Ralcey A., 241 

Miller, Robert M., 503, 550, 607, 630 

Miller, Susannah, 600 

Miller, Westover, 536 

Mills, Abram. T., 241 



Index to Persons 



743 



Mills, Alexander, 605 

Mills, Clemence, 601 

Mills, Denton, 473 

Mills, George, 138 

Mills, George H., 294 

Mills, Hannah, 643 

Mills, John, 84, 126, 617 

Mills, John F., 350 

Mills, Olivia, 586 

Mills, Richard, 607, 617 

Mills, Samuel, 50, 206, 417, 450, 452, 

453, 462, 473- 474. 475- 476, 527. 

534- 567. 586, 601, 617 
Mills, Samuel, Sr., 449 
Mills, Samuel, Jr., 61, 130, 133, 474 
Mills, Samuel E., 241 
Mills, Sarah, 527 
Mills, William H., 258 
Mills, William O., 255 
Minner, T. W., Rev., 437 
Minor, Cornelius, 550 
Minor, Grace, 550 
Minor, Henrietta L., 550 
Minor, Sheldon E., 302 
Minor, Zalmon, 419 
Mious, Alexander, 82 
Mitchell, George, 474 
Mitchell, Mary, 668 
Mitchell, William, 668 

Moe, , 625 

Moe, Edward, 240 
Moe, Hiram, 529 
Moe, James, 131, 134 
Moe, John, 66, 74, 77, 469, 474 
Moe, Mary, 527, 528 
Moe, Peter, 474, 578 
Molatto, Simon, 72 
Moller, William, 387 
Mongan, Anna A., 372 
Mongan, Patrick T., 372 
Monroe, James, 195 
Monrow, Daniel, 138 
Montells, Emma F., 365 
Montells, Joseph E., 352 
Montgomery, Alexander, 135 
Moore, Charles, 255 
Moore, Charles A., 296 
Moore, George, 239, 254 
Moore, Isaac, 254 
Moore, James T., 250 
Moore, John, 72 
Morehouse, Daniel, 79 
Morehouse, Elisha, 82 
Morehouse, Elisha, Jr., 82 
Morehouse, Harrie, 354 
Morehouse, Sarah, 603 
Morehouse, Thomas, Jr., 557 
Morey, Ruth, 684 
Morgan, Abigail, 559 
Morgan, John, 215 



Morgan, Joseph, Rev., 40-42, 55-57, 

404, 406, 474 
Morgan, Joseph, 74 
Morgan, W. E., Lieutenant, 277 
Moriarity, Peter, Rev., 427, 431 
Morine, Samuel, 417 
Morrell, Caroline E., 375 
Morrell, Catherine P., 494 
Morrell, Daniel P., 240 
Morrell, George, 250 
Morrell, Harriet, 503 
Morrell, Jacob, 333 
Morrell, Robert, 494 
Morrell, Sarah, 494 
Morrell, Stephen, 333 
Morris, Joseph, 76 
Morris, Robert, Rev., 404 
Morris, Stephen, 77 
Morris, Thomas, 474 
Morrison, William, 240 
Morton, J. M., 393 
Morton, Jennie, 393 
Morton, S. S., 393 
Moseman, Jeannette, 579 

Mosher, , Lieutenant, 177 

Mosher, , 578, 611 

Mosher, Abel, 127, 132 

Mosher, Enos, 72 

Mosher, Isaac, 84 

Mosher, James, 74, 130 

Mosher, Joshua, 684 

Mosher, Leander, 241 

Mosher, Martha, 625 

Mott, Adam, 27 

Mott, Hannah, 537 

Mott, John, 668 

Mott, Valentine, M.D., 375 

Moxley, William, 391 

Muirson, George, Rev., 415, 418 

Mullen, Patrick, 257 

MuUin, Daniel, 220 

Munday, Thomas, 226 

Munson, Frederick, Rev., 412 

Munson, Stephen, Rev., 65, 406, 474 

Murdock, Jonathan, Rev., 180, 406 

Murphy, , 600 

Murphy, Ann, 500 
Murray, Gilbert, 685 
Murray, Robert, 154 
Murray, Thomas, 84, 241 
Murray, W. H. H., Rev., 407 
Myers, Alexander, 79 
Myers, Charles, 241 



N 



Nash, Edward, 671 
Nash, Frances, 666 
Nash, Jedediah, 77 
Nash, M. A., 651 



744 



Index to Persons 



Neal, Joseph, 497 
Neal, Naomi, 497 
Neal, Sarah, 497 
Nealy, John, 474 
Nedley, James J., 339- 387 
Neilson, Chris P., 35^ 
Nelson, Clarissa, 585 
Nettleton, Charies, 353 
Nettleton, Charies H., 353 
Newcomb, Daniel, 138 
Newkirk, Susannah, 676 
Newman, Abraham, 135 
Newman, Andrew J., 333 
Newman, Augustus R., 421 
Newman, Byron T., 389 
Newman, Daniel, 683 
Newman, David, 73, 74 
Newman, Deborah, 499 
Newman, Elathea, 399 
Newman, Elizabeth, 562 
Newman, Ezra, 75, 131 
Newman, Hannah, 561, 676 
Newman, Isaac, 75, 76 
Newman, Israel, 131, 135 
Newman, James P., 254 
Newman, John, 66, 73, 548, 675 
Newman, Jonathan, 66, 96, 456, 

474 
Newman, Joseph, 75, 499 
Newman, Mary, 658 
Newman, Nancy, 502 
Newman, Nathaniel, 66 
Newman, Ralph, 604 
Newman, Rufus, 605 
Newman, Sarah, 585, 683 
Newman, Sarah E., 555 
Newman, Shubal, 131, 135 
Newman, Thomas, 66, 138 
Newman, William, 424, 562, 676 

Newton, , 628 

Newton, G. B., General, 273 
Nicholas, John, 82, 84 
Nichols, Abraham, 417, 474 
Nichols, Eliakim, 84 
Nichols, James, Jr., 140 
Nichols, Jarvis Z., Rev., 430, 432 
Nichols, John, 604 
Nichols, John A., 213, 249 
Nichols, Joseph, 82 
Nichols, Joseph H., Rev., 419 
Nichols, Nehemiah, 84 
Nichols, Phebe, 604 
Nichols, Richard, 631 
Nichols, Thomas, 77 
Nicholson, Henry, 25, 474 
Nickes, Nehemiah, 77 
Nicklos, John, 72 
Nicola, Robert P., 258 
Niles, Mary, 493 
Nims, Granville W., Rev., 404 



Noble, William H., General, 243, 245, 

248, 277 
North, Justus 0., Rev., 428 
Northoner, Richard, 125 
Northrup, Jabez, 72 
Northrup, William, 72 
Norton, John, 574 
Nouguir, Antoni, 481 
Noyes, John, Rev., 403, 404 

Nuel, , Jr., 72 

Nuel, Lostis, 79 



O 



O'Beirne, James R., General, 286 

O'Brien, Peter, 254 

O'Bryan, Terrance, 240 

Ochampaugh, C, Rev., 428 

Ockershausen, John H., 435 

Odell, Betha V., 362 

O'Doharty, Philip, 250 

O'Donnell, Mary E., 379 

O'DonneU, Michael J., 379 

O'Donnell, Thomas J., M.D., 379 

Ogden, Abigail, 175 

Ogden, Abner, 123, 125, 130, 133 

Ogden, Daniel, 474, 609 

Ogden, David, 474 

Ogden, Elizabeth, 632 

Ogden, John, 130, 133-474- 507- SH. 

632 
Ogden, Joseph, 474, 683 
Ogden, Judith, 632 
Ogden, Mary H., 650 
Ogden, Richard, 453, 457, 474 
Ogden, Susannah, 665, 683 
Ogden, William, 665 
Ogg, G. A., Rev., 437 
Olcott, Phineas, 494 
Oldrin, Edward, Rev., 433 
Olmstead, Chloe, 497 
Olmstead, David, Captain, 143 
Olmstead, David, 77 
Olmstead, Elizabeth, 497 
Olmstead, George W., 253 
Olmstead, Henry, 276 
Olmstead, Lemuel, 126 
Olmstead, M. N., Rev., 430 
Olmstead, Osborn, 241 
Olmstead, Stephen, Lieutenant, 78 
Olsen, K. P., 414 
Orry, Anne, 568 
Osborn, E., Rev., 428 
Osborn, Rachel, 524 
Osborne, Elizabeth, 532 
Osborne, William, 532 
Osburn, Aaron, 72 
Ostrander, D., Rev., 428 
Otis, John L., Colonel, 227, 229-236 
Owen, Henry H., 363 



Index to Persons 



745 



Owens, Ebenezer, 79 
Owens, Jonathan, 474 
Owens, Joseph, 473, 474 

P 

Paddock, James, 525 
Paddock, Thomas, 525 
Page, Benjamin, 421 
Painter, J. H., Rev., 437 
Painter, William M., 257 
Pall, John, 123, 124 

Palmer, , 324, 541, 542, 578, 629 

Palmer, Aaron, 625 
Palmer, Abel, 619 
—Palmer, Abigail, 618, 620,622,623,624 
Palmer, Abijah, 624 
Palmer, Abraham, 624, 625 
Palmer, Alanson, 628 
Palmer, Alathea, 624 
Palmer, Albert, 391, 624 
Palmer, Alexander, 622 
Palmer, Alexander H., 629 
Palmer, Alice, 622, 623 
Palmer, Alonzo, 629 
Palmer, Alton, 622 
Palmer, Amy, 379, 576, 624, 629 
Palmer, Anna, 622, 625 
Palmer, Anne, 593, 621, 623, 624, 628 
Palmer, Annie, 623 
Palmer, Armenia, 587 
Palmer, Asa, 620 
Palmer, Asahel, 196, 619 
Palmer, Barbara, 620 
Palmer, Benajah, 474 
Palmer, Benjamin, 620, 629 
Palmer, Benjamin G., 625 
Palmer, Bethuel, 257 
Palmer, Betsy, 628 
Palmer, Caroline, 619 
Palmer, Catherine, 619, 623, 627, 628 
Palmer, Charity, 629 
Palmer, Charles, 622 
Palmer, Charles W., 628 
Palmer, Clara, 619 
Palmer, Clarissa, 623 
Palmer, Clinton, 623 
Palmer, Cordelia, 623 
Palmer, Cornelia, 624 
Palmer, Cornelius, 125 
Palmer, Damaris, 624 
Palmer, Daniel, 135, 620, 623, 629 
Palmer, Darius M., 622 
Palmer, David, M.D., 379 
Palmer, David, 474, 621, 622 
Palmer, David, Jr., 453 
Palmer, David B., 380 
Palmer, Deborah, 618, 624 
Palmer, Deborah A., 622, 623 
Palmer, Delia, 622, 623 
Palmer, Denham, 63, 75, 136, 622 



Palmer, Denom, 345, 623 

Palmer, Dorcas, 621 

Palmer, Dorkis, 618 

Palmer, Edward, 624, 629 

Palmer, Edwin C., 629 

Palmer, Edy, 629 

Palmer, Elial, 624 

Palmer, Elias E., 276 

Palmer, Eliza, 622, 629, 

Palmer, Eliza C, 627 

Palmer, Elizabeth, 547, 549, 620, 621, 

623, 624, 625, 629 
Palmer, Elizabeth E., 622 
Palmer, ElUott, 622 
Palmer, Emma, 623 
Palmer, Enos, 69, 79, 84, 621 
Palmer, Ephraim, 31, 40, 48, 402, 

474, 475, 618, 621 
Palmer, Esther, 620, 628, 629 
Palmer, Eugene, 394 
Palmer, Ezekiel, 625 
Palmer, Fannie, 623 
Palmer, Ferris, 620 
Palmer, Floyd, 622 
Palmer, Frances, 622 
Palmer, Frank T., 296, 299, 346, 619 
Palmer, George, 623, 626 
Palmer, George A., 622 
Palmer, George W., 628 
Palmer, Gideon, 135, 621, 625 
Palmer, Gilbert, 621, 625, 626, 629 
Palmer, Gilbert D., 628 
Palmer, Gilbert M., 254 
Palmer, G. Nelson, 390 
Palmer, Hamlin F., 299 
Palmer, Hannah, 593, 618, 619, 620, 

621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 629 
Palmer, Hannah A., 626 
Palmer, Harvey, 587, 626 
Palmer, Henry, M.D., 380 
Palmer, Henry, 537, 618, 622, 624, 

625, 626 
Palmer, Hettie, 620 
Palmer, Horace A., 628 
Palmer, Innis B., 626, 
Palmer, Innis N., 627 
Palmer, Isaac, 69, 224, 254, 620, 621, 

629 
Palmer, Israel, 625 
Palmer, Jacob, 77, 626, 629 
Palmer, Jacomiah, 625 
Palmer, James, 48, 74, 190, 475, 621, 

622, 623, 629 
Palmer, Jane, 619 
Palmer, Jemima, 619, 623 
Palmer, Jeremiah, 123, 135, 475, 620, 

625 
Palmer, Joanna, 618 
Palmer, Job, 626 
Palmer, Job B., 627 



746 



Index to Persons 



Palmer, Joe, 139 
Palmer, Johamia, 618 
Palmer, John, 31, 61, 63, 257, 475, 
575,618, 619, 620, 621, 623, 625, 626 
Palmer, John, Jr., 61, 475 
Palmer, John, 3d, 61 
Palmer, John R., 619 
Palmer, John S., 626 
Palmer, John W., 588 
Palmer, John Wood, 63, 135, 541, 620 
Palmer, Johnard, 130 
Palmer, Jonas, 138 
Palmer, Jonathan, 475, 621, 623, 624, 

642 
Palmer, Joseph, 48, 55, 66, 456, 461, 

463, 475, 483, 484, 600, 621, 625 
Palmer, Joseph, Jr., 475 
Palmer, Josephus, 622, 624 
Palmer, Joshua, 625 
Palmer, Josiah, 621 
Palmer, Judah, 621 
Palmer, Judith, 537, 618, 629 
Palmer, Julia, 619, 627, 628 
Palmer, Julia A., 620 
Palmer, Julia E., 627 
Palmer, Justus, 61, 621 
Palmer, Katharine, 618 
Palmer, Leander, 629 
Palmer, Leonard, 626 
Palmer, Levi, 624, 629, 640 
Palmer, Lewis, 250, 622 
Palmer, Lloyd, 619 
Palmer, Lockwood, 622 
Palmer, Lorina, 620 
Palmer, Lornhanak, 625 
Palmer, Louisa, 622, 
Palmer, Louise, 627 
Palmer, Lucinda, 622 
Palmer, Lydia, 621, 625, 629 
Palmer, Margaret, 623 
Palmer, Maria, 622 
Palmer, Martha, 625 
Palmer, Mary, 620, 621,622, 625,629 
Palmer, Mary A., 626 
Palmer, Mathilda, 629 
Palmer, Matilda, 626 
Palmer, Merit, 628 
Palmer, Messenger, Captain, 96 
Palmer, Messenger, 51,61, 63, 118, 

475. 537. 620, 621 
Palmer, Micah, 626 
Palmer, Miranda, 628 
Palmer, Naomi, 619 
Palmer, Nathan, 130, 135, 475, 619, 

621 
Palmer, Nathaniel, 125, 129, 134, 182, 

380, 475, 603, 61 1 , 62 1 , 623, 624, 625 
Palmer, Nehemiah, 475, 620 
Palmer, Nehemiah C, 627 
Palmer, Oliver, 190, 620 



Palmer, Oscar, 626 

Palmer, Patience, 575 

Palmer, Peter, 450, 475, 476, 484, 625 

Palmer, Phebe, 621, 625, 629 

Palmer, Piatt, 620 

Palmer, Pruella, 619 

Palmer, Rachel, 380, 618, 625, 629 

Palmer, Ralph, 620 

Palmer, Ralph L., 619 

Palmer, Rebecca, 618, 619, 620, 621, 

623 
Palmer, Reuben, 625, 629 
Palmer, Rex L., 619 
Palmer, Rheuma, 619, 620 
Palmer, Robert, 128, 132, 182, 623 
Palmer, Ruth, 624, 625, 626 
Palmer, Sally, 624 
Palmer, Samantha, 619 
Palmer, Samuel, 66, 74, 77, 82, 129, 

133. 475. 623, 624, 640, 666 
Palmer, Samuel, Jr., 119, 120, 379, 

426, 475, 607 
Palmer, Samuel, 2d, 179 
Palmer, Sands F., 622 
Palmer, Sarah, 618, 619, 620, 621, 

622, 623, 625, 626, 629, 659 
Palmer, Sarah A., 380 
Palmer, Sarah M., 623, 627 
Palmer, Seneca, 626 

Palmer, Seth, Lieutenant, 119, 130, 

135 

Palmer, Seth, 63, 620 

Palmer, Shubel, 624 

Palmer, Silas, 77, 131, 623, 626 

Palmer, Smith, 619 

Palmer, Solomon, 250, 475, 537, 621, 

622 
Palmer, Sophia, 629 
Palmer, Stephen, 63, 136, 589, 621, 

623, 624 

Palmer, Susan, 619, 627 

Palmer, Susan M., 627 

Palmer, Susannah, 618 

Palmer, Sybil, 620 

Palmer, Sybil W., 620 

Palmer, Sylvanus, 465, 618, 621 

Palmer, Tameson, 624 

Palmer, Thomas, 625 

Palmer, Titus, 622 

Palmer, Uriah, 618 

Palmer, Walter, 224 

Palmer, Walter F., 254 

Palmer, Warren, 190 

Palmer, William, 55, 450, 475, 476, 

578, 618, 622, 623, 625, 629, 662 
Palmer, William, Jr., 476 
Palmer, William B., 628 
Palmer, William L., 626 
Palmer, Wilson, 626 
Palmer, Winus, 554, 624, 625 



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747 



Palmer, Zabud, 123, 125, 130, 135, 619 
Palmeter, Sylvanus, 79 

Pardee, , Colonel, 22S 

Pardee, David, 74, 75 
Pardee, Ebenezer, 72 
Park, Charlotte, 506 
Park, Dorcas, 632 
Park, Elizabeth, 632 
Park, Knapp, 632, 685 
Park, Mary, 633, 634 
Park, Roger, 506 
Park, Sophia, 506 
Parker, Edward O., M.D., 380 
Parker, George D., 372 
Parker, Sarah A., 372 
Parks, Andrew, 84 
Parks, J. A., Rev., 428 
Parks, Samuel R., 254 
Parrott, Richard, 652 

Parsons, , General, 142, 146 

Parsons, Abigail, 532 

Parsons, Eli, 476 

Parsons, Eliphaz, 519 

Parsons, Hannah, 519 

Parsons, Jesse, 79, 115-118, 138, 140, 

519 

Parsons, Joanna, 532 
Parsons, Mary, 532 
Parsons, Parmenas, 519 
Parsons, Phebe, 519 
Parsons, Theodosius, 123, 139 
Parsons, Theophilus, 519 
Parsons, Tryphena, 519 
Partilo, Amos, 75, 82 
Partilo, Jehiel, 82, 84, 131, 182 
Partilo, Matthew, 182 
Partlow, Richard, 254 
Patchen, George, 84 
Patchen, Jesse, 84 

Patrick, Daniel, Captain, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 
14, 16, 17, 24, 26, 65, 288, 289, 476, 

577 
Patrick, Daniel, 30, 476 
Patterson, William, 79 
Patton, Matthew, Rev., 409, 438 
Payne, Thomas, Rev., 404 ■ 
Peabody, George, 341 
Pearsall, Henry, 491 
Pearsall, Margaret, 491 
Pease, H. F., Rev., 428 
Pease, John, 616 
Pease, Mary J., 616 

Peck, , Captain, 277 

Peck, , 641 

Peck, Aaron, 123, 125 
Peck, Abijah, 525 
Peck, Abraham, 634 
Peck, Albert C, 396 
Peck, AUce, 553 
Peck, Althea, 549 



Peck, Andrew, 191 

Peck, Ard, 189 

Peck, Benjamin, 128, 133, 250, 406, 

652 
Peck, Benjamin, Jr., 431 
Peck, Caleb, 48, 55, 476 
Peck, Charles, 392, 557 
Peck, Charlotte, 523 
Peck, Clara, 634 
Peck, Clarissa, 494 
Peck, Curtis H., 254 
Peck, Daniel, 125, 576 
Peck, Darius, 630 
Peck, David, Rev., 425 
Peck, David, 128, 132, 441, 476 
Peck, Deborah, 620 
Peck, Ebenezer, 130, 135 
Peck, Edward, 126 
Peck, Elias, 564, 686 
Peck, Elias S., 240 
Peck, Eliphalet, 72, 476, 538, 543 
Peck, EUzabeth, 520, 596, 630 
Peck, Ephraim, 495 
Peck, Eunice, 596 
Peck, George, Captain, 130, 135 
Peck, George, 544 
Peck, George C, Lieutenant, 249 
Peck, Gideon, 520, 616, 634 
Peck, Gilbert, 641 
Peck, Hannah, 496, 543 
Peck, Harry, 399 
Peck, Henry, 79, 128 
Peck, Henry V., 250 
Peck, Heth, 123, 135 
Peck, Isaac, Rev., 420 
Peck, Isaac, 130, 136, 181, 190, 198, 

398, 419 
Peck, Isaac, Jr., 130, 133 
Peck, Israel, 130, 634 
Peck, James, 75, 542 
Peck, Jared, 347 
Peck, Jeremiah, Rev., 31, 39, 48, 403, 

476, 630 
Peck, Jeremiah, 126, 462, 476, 483, 

543 > 630 
Peck, Jeremy, 417 
Peck, Jerusha, 590 
Peck, John, 74, 79, 630 
Peck, Jonathan, 151, 477 
Peck, Joseph, 72, 75, 476, 520, 630 
Peck, Joshua, 476 
Peck, Mary, 538, 544, 605, 634 
Peck, Mary M., 564 
Peck, Moses, 130, 135 
Peck, Nathan, E., 250 
Peck, Nathaniel, Captain, 62, 96, 333 
Peck, Nathaniel, 87, 136, 476, 520 
Peck, Nathaniel, Jr., Captain, 97 
Peck, Nehemiah, 476, 611 
Peck, Obadiah, 398 



748 



Index to Persons 



Peck, P., Rev., 428 

Peck, Peter, 476, 477 

Peck, Phebe, 543 

Peck, Prewy, 520 

Peck, Ralph, 145 

Peck, Rebecca, 634 

Peck, Robert, 119, 122, 130, 135, 476, 

477, 620 
Peck, Ruth, 543, 633 
Peck, Sally, 544 
Peck, Samuel, Captain, 97, 333 
Peck, Samuel, 31, 34, 40, 44, 48, 52, 

55, 63, 118, 402, 457, 460, 476, 477, 

541, 605, 649 
Peck, Samuel, 3d, 130, 136 
Peck, Sarah, 525 
Peck, Seth, 125 
Peck, Solomon, 333 
Peck, Stephen C, 650 
Peck, Susannah, 543 
Peck, Theophilus, 126, 395, 476, 477, 

485. 520, 523. 525. 560, 596, 600, 

633 
Peck, Thomas, 130, 135, 540, 544 
Peck, Walter, 275 
Peck, William, 130, 136, 181, 182, 

629, 630 
Peck, William G., 274 
Peck, Zenas M., 580 
Peet, James, 477 
Peet, Susannah, 549 
Peet, Thomas, 477 
Pelham, Francis, 125 
Pell, Abby, 665 

Pelton, Charles F., Rev., 428, 430 
Pelton, DeWitt, Rev., 286 
Pelton, Samuel, 568 
Penfield, Frederick, 266 
Penn, William, 89 
Penoyer, John, 538 
Penoyer, Martha, 638 
Penoyer, Mary, 681 
Penoyer, Mercy, 564 
Penoyer, Robert, 638, 644 
Penoyer, Thomas, 75, 606, 681 
Perkins, John T., 393, 394 
Perrot, James, 398 
Perrot, John, 182, 394, 398 
Perry, A. F., Rev., 425 
Perry, Elisha, 82 
Perry, E. R., 439 
Perry, James, 82 
Perry, John, 477, 551 
Perry, Samuel, 69 
Peters, Benjamin, 77 
Peters, Joseph, 72 
Peterson, Charles, 241 
Peterson, Hanc, 25, 477 
Peterson, Robert, 255 
Pettibone, Ira W., Colonel, 228 



Pettit, Ayres and Davenport, 340 
Pettit, Elizabeth, 644 
Pettit, John, 643 
Pettit, Sarah, 680 
Pfeiffer, Henry, 439 
Phillips, Benjamin B., 388 
Phillips, James, 525 
Piatti, Virgil C, M.D., 380 
Pickett, Ebenezer, 477, 599 
Pickett, Thomas, 646 
Pickney, John, 537 
Pickney, Sarah, 537 

Pierce, , Rev., 420 

Pierce, George, 651 

Pierce, Joseph, 667 

Pierce, Sarah, 686 

Pierson, Abraham, Rev., 40, 403, 477, 

486 
Pine, Hannah, 506 
Pine, James, 613 
Pine, Rachel, 477 
Pine, Samuel, 477, 496, 614 
Pinkham, Alice H., 360 
Pinkham, Charles H., 360 
Pinneo, Jeannette L., 393 
Pinneo, Timothy S., M.D., 399 
Piper, E. Foster, Rev., 435 
Pitman, C. S., Rev., 428 
Place, John, 477 
Place, Josiah W., 360 
Place, R. L., 257 

Plaisted, , General, 231, 236 

Piatt, Abigail, 620 

Piatt, Benoni, 66, 477, 594 

Piatt, Charles P., 250 

Piatt, Elizabeth, 511 

Piatt, Epenetus, 37 

Piatt, George, 189 

Piatt, Isaac, 511 

Piatt, Jeremiah, 189 

Piatt, Jonathan, 512, 514 

Piatt, Orville H., 275, 277, 279 

Piatt, Rebecca, 498 

Piatt, William J., 250, 419 

Pomeroy, Joel, 136 

Pond, Naomi, 680 

Pond, Nathaniel, 676, 680 

Poor, James, 79 

Pope, Albert A., Colonel, 273 

Porter, Annie D., 394 

Porter, Edward C, Rev., 407 

Porter, Henry K., 394 

Porter, Joshua, 141 

Porter, Nathaniel, Rev., 430, 432 

Porteus, William, Rev., 428, 430 

Post, C. W., 521 

Post, Marjorie M., 521 

Potter, C. D., 391 

Potter, Frank C., Rev., 409 

Potter, George T., 255 



Index to Persons 



749 



Potter, Hannah, 27 
Potter, Isaac, 626 
Potter, Joshua, 629 
Potter, Judah, 629 
Potter, William, 27 
Pottgen, Andrew, 389 
Potts, Thomas, 477, 676 
Potwin, Lemuel S., Rev., 412 
Powell, Albert M., Colonel, 490 
Powellson, Charles G., 491 
Powers, Aaron, 139 
Pratt, John T., 383 
Prescott, Caroline, 491 
Price, Ann Eliza, 498 
Price, John, 84 
Price, Richard, 477 
Price, William, 477 
Prince, Thomas, Rev., 64 
Prindle, Benjamin, 477, 612 
Prindle, Ebenezer, 557 
Prindle, George, 242 
Pritchard, Thomas, Rev., 415 
Pro verse, Samuel, 77 
Provost, Daniel, 138 
Provost, William, 219 
Provost, William H., 250 
Pue, Henry, 79 
Pugsley, Floyd T., 257 

Purdy, , 636 

Purdy, Abigail, 633, 636, 637 

Purdy, Abraham, 125, 632, 633 

Purdy, Alathea, 635, 636 

Purdy, Alvah B., 254 

Purdy, Alvan, 633 

Purdy, Amy, 636 

Purdy, Amy B., 631 

Purdy, Andrew, 634, 635 

Purdy, Ann, 613, 631, 637 

Purdy, Anna, 634, 635 

Purdy, Anne, 635 

Purdy, Augustus, 636 

Purdy, Bartholemew, 636 

Purdy, Benjamin, 477, 631, 634, 636, 

663 
Purdy, Budd, 637 
Purdy, Caleb, 506, 596, 633, 634 
Purdy, Caleb B., 634 
Purdy, Calvin, 419 
Purdy, Charity, 635, 636 
Purdy, Charles, 220 
Purdy, Charles E., 250 
Purdy, Charlotte, 635, 636 
Purdy, Christopher, 636 
Purdy, Clarina, 633 
Purdy, Cornelius, 652 
Purdy, Daniel, 130,505, 631,632,633, 

637 
Purdy, David, 613, 631, 635, 637 
Purdy, Deborah, 634, 637 
Purdy, Delia, 636 



Purdy, Ebenezer, 635 

Purdy, Effalinda, 635 

Purdy, Eisenhardt, 636, 637 

Purdy, Elias, 634 

Purdy, Elijah, 636, 637 

Purdy, Elisha, 637 

Purdy, Eliza, 636 

Purdy, Elizalaeth, 631, 632, 633, 634, 

635. 636, 637 
Purdy, Emery, 636 
Purdy, Esther, 635, 637 
Purdy, Francis, 510, 630, 637 
Purdy, Francis, Jr., 477, 504 
Purdy, Gabriel, 633, 634, 635 
Purdy, Gilbert, 633, 635, 637 
Purdy, Glorianna, 617, 634, 635 
Purdy, Hackaliah, 633 
Purdy, Hannah, 632, 634, 635, 637 
Purdy, Hannah M., 634 
Purdy, Henry, 633, 635, 636 
Purdy, Isaac, 637 
Purdy, Isaiah, 635 
Purdy, Israel, 637 
Purdy, Jacob, 633 
Purdy, James, 632 
Purdy, Jerusha, 632 
Purdy, Jesse, 139 
Purdy, Job, 636 
Purdy, John, 448, 477, 505, 506, 630, 

631, 632, 637 
Purdy, John, Jr., 250, 419 
Purdy, John M., 635 
Purdy, Jonathan, 632, 635, 636, 637 
Purdy, Joseph, 60-62, 477, 538, 630, 

631, 632, 633, 635, 636, 637 
Purdy, Joshua, 631, 633, 635 
Purdy, Joshua K., 634 
Purdy, Josiah, 596, 634, 635 
Purdy, Judah, 635 
Purdy, Jude, 637 
Purdy, Judith, 637 
Purdy, Keziah, 635 
Purdy, Laurana, 631 
Purdy, Lavina, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637 
Purdy, Margaret, 636, 650 
Purdy, Mariam, 636 
Purdy, Martha, 631, 637 
Purdy, Martin, 635 
Purdy, Mary, 505, 631,634, 635, 636, 

637, 638 
Purdy. Mary E., 634 
Purdy, Maryan, 635 
Purdy, Melinda, 635 
Purdy, Merritt, 634 
Purdy, Micah, 636 
Purdy .Millason, 637 
Purdy, Monmouth, 636 
Purdy, Moses, 631, 635 
Purdy, Nancy, 637 
Purdy, Nathan, 630, 631, 635 



750 



Index to Persons 



Purdy, Nathaniel, 631, 637 

Purdy, Nehemiah, 613, 631, 632, 634 

Purdy, Obadiah, 632 

Purdy, Ophelia, 634 

Purdy, Pamelia, 636 

Purdy, Phanne, 632 

Purdy, Phebe, 632, 634, 635, 638 

Purdy, Phebe H., 635 

Purdy, Rachel, 632, 634, 663 

Purdy, Rebecca, 631, 632 

Purdy, Reuben, 631 

Purdy, Robert, 635 

Purdy, Roger, 505, 631 

Purdy, Ruth, 634 

Purdy, Sally A., 634 

Purdy, Samuel, 478, 617, 630, 633, 

634, 635, 636, 638 
Purdy, Sarah, 630, 634, 635, 636, 637 
Purdy, Sarah A., 651 
Purdy, Seth, 635 
Purdy, Smith, 631 
Purdy, Solomon, 613, 631, 648 
Purdy, Stephen, 637 
Purdy, Still John, 637 
Purdy, Susannah, 635 
Purdy, Sylvanus, 634, 636 
Purdy, Thomas, 632, 634 
Purdy, Timothy, 636 
Purdy, Truman, 631 
Purdy, Vincent B., 250 
Purdy, William, 250, 419, 631, 632, 

635 
Purdy, William H., 634 
Purvis, Francis, Rev., 426 
Putnam, Israel, General, 49, 57, 120, 

125, 146, 154, 160-170, 175, 193, 

197, 264, 265, 273, 279 
Putnam, William H., 265, 268 
Putney, Rufus C, Rev., 430, 432, 

435, 616 
Putney, Rufus S., Rev., 435 



Q 



Quarnstrom, Gustaf A., Rev., 414 

Quick, Abraham, 502 

Quiller, Elias, 256 

Quimby, Aaron, 667 

Quimby, Elizabeth, 666 

Quimby, Isaiah, 668 

Quimby, Josiah, 478 

Quimby, Moses, 666 

Quinlan, Edward J., 366 

Quinlan, Frances, 366 

Quinlan, Jeremiah, 366 

Quinn, Martin J., 261, 262, 263, 296 

Quintard, Isaac, 140, 417, 458, 478, 

604, 620 
Quintard, Mary, 575 
Quintard, Pierre, 606 



R 



Radford, Julia S., 367 

Radford, Stephen L., 367 

Rae, John W., 250 

Rail, John, 448, 451, 474, 478, 487 

Rail, Mangle Johnson, 478 

Randall, Abraham, 75 

Randall, Lydia, 626 

Randall, Minor D., 342 

Randall, Snow, 626 

Randle, Thomas, 505 

Randle, William, 639 

Rapelye, Maria, 637 

Rashleigh, Mercy, 646 

Rassom, Joshua, 478 

Rathbun, Susan, 614 

Ratleflf, William, 31, 448, 478 

Rawlinson, J. Winthrop, Rev., 428 

Ray, Annie L., 494 

Ray, Blanche L., 494 

Ray, Charles, 494 

Ray, Frank W., 494 

Ray, George A., 494 

Ray, George S., 304, 494 

Ray, Hiram, 610 

Ray, John E., 494 

Ray, John H., 494 

Raymond, Clarissa J., 588 

Raymond, Ebenezer S., Rev., 425 

Raymond, Elizabeth^M., 361 

Raymond, Elizabeth T., 361 

Raymond, Henry, 419 

Raymond, John, 478, 501 

Raymond, Joseph E., 224 

Raymond, Nancy L., 651 

Raymond, Paul A., 271 

Raymond, Richard, 501 

Raymond, Samuel, 618 

Raymond, Sands, 77 

Raymond, Susan, 588 

Raymond, Thomas H., 588 

Raymond, Thomas I., 342, 361 

Raymond, William E., 265 

Raynor, Charles, Rev., 437 

Read, — — , 176 

Read, C, 651 

Read, John, Major, 87 

Reamer, Jacob, 241 

Reasoner, Alice, 535 

Reboe, Andrew, 77 

Rechenberg, Carl F. W., Rev., 439 

Reddington, Edward, 250 

Reddy, Samuel, 218, 242 

Redfield, S. C. A., 393 

Redford, Benjamin, Rev., 430, 433 

Redstone, H., Rev.. 428 

Reed, , 599 

Reed, Ann, 671 
Reed, David, 523 



Index to Persons 



751 



Reed, John, 139, 671 
Reed, Nathan, 520 
Reed, William, 555 
Reike, John, 69 
Reilly, Benjamin, 390 
Rembach, Ann M., 515 
Resseca, James, 82 
Reuthsler, John, 241 
Reynolds, , Rev., 415, 41^ 



Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 

589, 596 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 

478, 480 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 

589 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 

480 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 

595. 638 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 

522, 67 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 



564, 593, 601 



Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 



Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 
Reynolds 



. 505. 527. 541-640 
Abigail, 490, 564, 593 
Abraham, 189, 471 
Alfred, 564 
Ambrose, 129, 134, 190, 

Anne, 624 

Arney, 521 

Benjamin, 478, 479, 480 

Bethia, 522 

Briggs, 136 

Caleb, 77, 474, 478, 480 

Carlton, 224 

Daniel, 63, 77, 130, 135, 

David, Lieutenant, 97 
David, 130, 417, 454. 478, 

David, Jr., 446 
Ebenezer, 55, 74, 77, 478, 

Edward, 257 

EU, 81, 83 

Elijah, Captian, 191 

EHphalet, 83 

Elizabeth, 478, 499, 537, 

Elkanah M., 685 

Ely, 74 

EmeUne A., 564 

Ezekiel, 131, 524 

Ezra, 58 

Francis, 478 

George M., 347 

George W., 251 

Gideon, 190, 478, 479, 480, 

• 

Hannah, 480 

Hezekiah, 478, 487, 678 

Horton, Captain, 189 

Horton, 75, 76, 136, 371, 



Isaac, 478 

Israel, 257 

James, Captain, 97, 289 

James, 84, 131, 135, 447, 



470, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 566 



James, Jr., 97, 479 
Jared, 190, 575 
Jeremiah, 82, 479 
Jesse, 386 



Reynolds, Joel, 558 
Reynolds, John, Rev., 430, 432 
Reynolds, John, 30, 31, 32, 34-38, 40, 

42, 52, 55. 402, 405, 149, 478, 479, 

480, 537, 598, 621, 638 
Reynolds, John, Sr., 48, 55 
Reynolds, John, Jr., 48, 55, 479 
Reynolds, John G., 353, 359 
Reynolds, Jonathan, 25, 29, 30, 31, 

44, 48, 52, 55, 56, 82, 84, 97, 123, 

125, 469, 477, 478, 479, 480, 488, 

577. 595. 596. 638 
Reynolds, Joseph, 55, 97, 129, 134, 

464, 467, 478, 479, 480, 549, 554, 

563. 639 
Reynolds, Joseph, Jr., 479 
Reynolds, Joshua, 471, 478, 479, 480 
Reynolds, Josiah, 448, 469, 480, 482 
Reynolds, Justus, 450, 480 
Reynolds, J. H., Rev., 419 
Reynolds, Lockwood, 496 
Reynolds, Lydia, 371 
Reynolds, Martha, 625 
Reynolds, Mary, 480, 524, 589 
Reynolds, Moses, 424 
Reynolds, Nathan, 448, 475, 480 
Reynolds, Nathaniel, Lieutenant, 134 
Reynolds, Nathaniel, 131, 478, 479, 

480, 496, 589, 593, 624 
Reynolds, Nathaniel, Jr., 480 
Reynolds, Nehemiah, 480 
Reynolds, Peter, 480, 621 
Reynolds, Philip, 82 
Reynolds, Polly, 634 
Reynolds, Rebecca, 424, 595, 596 
Reynolds, Reuben, 75, 479, 480 
Reynolds, Ruth, 480 
Reynolds, Sackett, 72 
Reynolds, Samantha, 512 
Reynolds, Samuel, 522, 619 
Reynolds, Samuel E., 581 
Reynolds, Sarah, 480, 563, 589, 593, 

604, 638 
Reynolds, Silas, 82, 84 
Reynolds, Solomon, 347, 478, 481 
Reynolds, Stephen, 478, 481 
Reynolds, Timothy, Lieutenant, 97 
Reynolds, Timothy, 73, 86, 122 
Reynolds, Titus, 74, 79, 589 
Reynolds, Valentine, 139 
Reynolds, William, 601 
Rice, Nathan, Rev., 430, 432 
Rice, Phineas, Rev., 428, 430, 432 
Rich, Alonzo R., Rev., 408 
Richards, James, Captain, 526 
Richards, James, 671 
Richards, Mary, 671 
Richards, Samuel, 671 
Richardson, M., Rev., 428 
Rickey, John, 74 



752 



Index to Persons 



Rider 


Augustus B., 254 


Rivington, , 157 


Riggs , 72 
Riggs, Mills, 417 
Riley, Edward, 257 


Robbins, George P., 241 


Robbins, Harrison, 241 


Robbins, William A., Adjutant, 239 


Ringrose, Elias, 241 


Robbins, W. A., 275 


Ringrose, Samuel D., Rev., 426 


Roberson, William, 501 


Riordan, John, 251 


Roberts, , 340 


Rippel, Albert F., 360 
Ritch. . 123. 413 


Roberts, Benjamin, 82 


Roberts, Catharine A., 597 


Ritch 


Abigail, 639 


Roberts, Henry, 285 


Ritch 


Abraham, 639 


Roberts, Peter, 84 


Ritch 


Amy, 639 


Roberts, Susan, 551 


Ritch 


Anne, 639 


Roberts, Thomas, 417 


Ritch 


Betsy, 639 


Roberts, Zachariah, 481 


Ritch 


Charles F., 249 


Robinson, James, Rev., 428 


Ritch 


Chauncey, 639 


Robinson, James, 256 


Ritch 


Daniel, 639 


Robinson, John, 481 


Ritch 


David, 639 


Robinson, Silas A., 277 


Ritch 


Ebenezer, 638 


Robinson, William, 125, 481 


Ritch 


Edward, 136, 639 


Rockefeller, William, 353 


Ritch 


EUzabeth, 639 


Rockwell, Daniel, 72 


Ritch 


Esther T., 660 


Rockwell, John, 77, 84, 608 


Ritch 


Hannah, 527, 638, 639 


Rodgers, Jonathan, 481 


Ritch 


Harriet E., 639 


Rodgers, Levi, Rev., 412 


Ritch 


Henry, 33, 34. 48, 50, 55. 56, 


Rodgers, Richard, 481, 487 


457 


481, 638,639 


Rodman, Thomas H., 364 


Ritch 


Hetty, 639 


Roe, Abigail, 538 


Ritch 


Israel, 639 


Roebling, Washington A., Mrs., 274 


Ritch 


James, 639 


Rogers, , Commodore, 229 


Ritch 


Jane, 639 


Rogers, , Rev., 266 


Ritch 


Jared, 639 


Rogers, Amzi, Rev., 419 


Ritch 


John, 69, 136, 639 


Rogers, Ira, 516 


Ritch 


John C, 638 


Rogers, James, 140 


Ritch 


Lemuel, 639 


Rogers, Lewis, 524 


Ritch 


Louisa, 278 


Rogers, Nehemiah, 190 


Ritch 


Lucy, 639 


Rogers, Noah C, 337 


Ritch 


Margaret, 639 


Rogers, Sarah, 592 


Ritch 


Maria, 639 


Rogers, W. H., Rev., 441 


Ritch 


Martha, 639 


Rogers, Warren L., Rev., 439 


Ritch 


Mary, 638, 639 


Roisay, Henry, Rev., 430 


Ritch 


Ralph, 639 


RoUhaus, Philip, 350, 439 


Ritch 


Rufus, 639 


Romer, James H., Rev., 430, 433 


Ritch 


Ruth, 638, 639 


Roscoe, Josiah, 646 


Ritch 


SalUe, 639 


Rose, Abigail, 575 


Ritch 


Sarah, 638, 639 


Ross, William, Rev., 430 


Ritch 


Sarah F., 639 


RosslDOttom, Thomas H., 396 


Ritch 


Silas D., 355 


Rowan, R. H., 265 


Ritch 


Sophia, 639 


Rowell, Daniel, 519 


Ritch 


Susan A., 639 


Rowell, Elizabeth, 424, 594 


Ritch 


Susannah, 639 


Rowell, OHver, 84 


Ritch 


Thersa, 639 


Rowland, David, 87 


Ritch 


Thomas, 352, 355, 393, 481, 


Rowley, Israel, 83 


638 




Rudd, , 628 


Ritch 


Thomas, Jr., 481 


Rundle, , 514 


Ritch 


Thomas, 3d, 136 


Rundle, Abigail, 481, 482, 640, 642 


Ritch 


Thomas J., 384, 638 


Rundle, Abraham, 79, 417, 448, 473. 


Ritch 


William, 355 


481, 482, 640 


Ritch 


WiUiam E., 304 


Rundle, Abraham, Jr., 481 _^'' 


Ritch 


William H., 240 


Rundle, Abram, 124 


Ritch 


Willis, 355 


Rundle, Alfred A., 260, 360 



Index to Persons 



753 



Rundle, Amos, 190 

Rundle, Amy, 379, 624, 640, 641 

Rundle, Ann, 641 

Rundle, Anne, 640 

Rundle, Benoni, 533 

Rundle, Charity, 640 

Rundle, Charles, 481, 640, 642 

Rundle, David, 189 

Rundle, Deborah, 640, 641 

Rundle, Eli, Captain, 98 

Rundle, Eli, 123, 124, 128, 133, 481, 

640 
Rundle, Elizabeth, 640, 642 
Rundle, Ezra, 481, 482, 641, 642 
Rundle, Hannah, 506, 549, 595, 623, 

640, 641, 642 
Rundle, Hardy, 134, 641 
Rundle, Horatio N., 641 
Rundle, Isaac, 459, 481, 519, 623, 642 
Rundle, Jacob, 72, 481, 486, 642 
Rundle, James, 641 
Rundle, Jep, 131 
Rundle, Jeremiah, 63, 125, 640 
Rundle, Jesse, 123, 125 
Rundle, John, 125, 138, 481, 482, 526, 

595, 640, 641, 642 
Rundle, John, Jr., 482 
Rundle, Jonathan, 189, 640, 641 
Rundle, Joseph, 72, 455, 482, 539, 642 
Rundle, Joshua, 82, 124 
Rundle, Josiah, 641, 642 
Rundle, Mary, 640, 642 
Rundle, Mind well, 642 
Rundle, Nathaniel, 134, 136, 641 
Rundle, Nathaniel, Jr., 129 
Rundle, Patience, 642 
Rundle, Phineas, 641 
Rundle, Rachel, 640, 641, 642 
Rundle, Rebecca, 471, 595, 641, 642 
Rundle, Reuben, 119, 122, 136, 561, 

641 
Rundle, Ruth, 641 
Rundle, Samuel, 481, 482, 595, 640, 

641 
Rundle, Sarah, 601 , 624, 640, 641 , 642 
Rundle, Shadrach, 641 
Rundle, Shubal, 129, 134 
Rundle, Solomon, 129, 134 
Rundle, Titus, 126 
Rundle, William, 31, 48, 55, 379, 481, 

482, 512, 601, 624, 639, 640, 642 
Rundle, William, Jr., 482 
Rungee, Henry J., 367 
Rungee, Pauline F., 367 
Rungee, William C, 367 
Ruscoe, William W., 249 
Rush, Benjamin, M.D., 372, 378 
Rush, Richard, Rev., 433 
Russell, Charles L., Colonel, 227 
Russell, Isaac D., 349 



Russell, Joseph E., 204, 206, 212, 367 
Russell, Sarah, 639 
Russell, Sophia A., 367 
Russell, Victor H., 384, 385 
Rutherford, William, 241 
Ruutz-Rees, Caroline, 400 
Ryan, Dennis, 216 



Sackett, Ann, 685 

Sackett, Clarissa, 513 

Sackett, Elizabeth, 685 

Sackett, Hannah, 502 

Sackett, Isabel, 642 

Sackett, John, 130, 133, 251, 642 

Sackett, Joseph, 474, 482, 642 

Sackett, Joseph, Jr., 137 

Sackett, Justus, 128, 133, 685 

Sackett, Nathaniel, 61, 460, 482, 516 

Sackett, Peter, 620 

Sackett, Richard, Captain, 177 

Sackett, Richard, Rev., 65, 404, 406, 
482, 642 

Sackett, Richard, 482, 567 

Sackett, Samuel, 642 

Sackett, Simon, 642 

Sackett, William, 125, 250 

St. John, Deborah, 583 

St. John, Eliphalet, 605 

St. John, Ezra, 84 

St. John, Isaac, 77 

St. John, James, 72 

St. John, Joseph, 501 

St. John, Nathan, 646 

St. John, Sally, 516 

St. John, Stephen, 583 

Salar, Ezekiel, 74 

Saltonstall, Robert, 679 

Sampson, Augustus, 258 

Sands, Anna, 537 

Sands, Mary, 665 

Sanford, Aaron, 264 

Sanford, Arthur B., Rev., 433 

Sanford, Clark, M.D., 19^, 380 

Sanford, Frederick R., Rev., 422 

Sanford, Henry, 381 

Sanford, John, 381 

Sanford, John C, 349 

Sanford, Josephus, 381 

Sanford, Parmelia, 505 

Sanford, P. P., Rev., 428 

Sargent, George B., 251 

Sargent, William L., 254 

Sarles, Phebe, 651 

Saunder & Jones, 263 

Savage, William L., Lieu-enant, 239 

Sawyer, J., Rev., 428 

Sawyer, R. A., Rev., 437, 438 

Saxton, Noah C, Rev., 407 



754 



Index to Persons 



Schafer, John, 241 


Scofield, W. W., 390 


Schafer, Louis, 240 


Scott, James H., 241 


Schmehl, J. Henry, 388 


Scott, Julia E., 654 


Schmidtkong, J. A., Rev., 439 


Scott, Lazarus, 482 


Schnautz, Robert W., 388 


Scott, Robert, 586 


Schneider, J. F., Rev., 414 


Scott, Timothy, 125 


Schofield, Solomon R., Rev., 412 


Scott, Warren N., 241 


Schroder, Jacob, 217 


Scott, William, 71, 126, 138, 334 


Schroeder, WiUiam, 215 


Scribner, Asa, 138 


Schupp, Herman, 387 


Scribner, Sarah, 482 


Schupp, Joseph V., 388 


Scribner, Stephen, 84 


Scofield, , 564. 582 


Scribner, Uriah, 482 


Scofield, Abigail, 643, 644, 680 


Scudder, Thomas, 483 


Scofield, Abraham, 643, 644 


Seabrook, Alice, 647 


Scofield, Alfred, 220 


Seabrook, Robert, 647 


Scofield, Benjamin, 544, 573 


Seager, , 600 


Scofield, Daniel, 314, 643 


Seaman, Daniel, 483 


Scofield, David, 189, 644, 645 


Seaman, Hicks, 487 


Scofield, Deborah, 645 


Seaman, Jane, 506 


Scofield, Ebenezer, 644, 655 


Seaman, R., Rev., 428 


Scofield, Edwin L., 359 


Secor, Theodosius F., 580 


Scofield, Edwin N., 64 


Secor, William, 634 


Scofield, EH] ah, 661 


Seely, , 547 


Scofield, Elizabeth, 593, 606, 644, 671 


Seely, Abigail, 547 


Scofield, Ely, 643 


Seely, Abijah, 77, 527 


Scofield, Eunice, 643 


Seely, Jonas, 566 


Scofield, George E., 213, 359, 384 


Seely, Mercy, 552 


Scofield, Hannah, 643, 644, 645, 656, 


Seely, Nehemiah, 80 


678 


Seely, Sarah, 566 


Scofield, Isaac, 643 


Selden, Joseph H., Rev., 285, 407 


Scofield, James, 131, 645, 671 


Selleck, Alonzo F., Rev., 430, 432 


Scofield, Jeoffrey, 125 


Selleck, Anice, 533 


Scofield, Jeremiah, 458, 482, 644, 645 


Selleck, B., Rev., 428 


Scofield, John, 606, 643, 644, 645 


Selleck, Charles, 137 


Scofield, John W., 251 


Selleck, Charles M., Rev., 645 


Scofield, Jonas, 482, 645 


Selleck, David, 645 


Scofield, Jonathan, 138, 644, 645 


Selleck, George. 533 


Scofield, Joseph, 643, 644, 645 


Selleck, Hannah, 606 


Scofield, Joshua, 645 


Selleck, J. A., Rev., 432 


Scofield, Josiah, 644 


Selleck, Jesse, 573 


Scofield, Mary, 643, 644, 645, 661, 


Selleck, John, 483, 562, 645, 646 


663 


Selleck, John A., Rev., 430 


Scofield, Mercy, 644, 645 


Selleck, Jonathan, 74, 483, 645 


Scofield, Nathan, 424, 643 


Selleck, Jonathan, Sr., 44 


Scofield, Nathaniel, 137, 644 


Selleck, Joseph, 545 


Scofield, Nehemiah, 643 


Selleck, Mary, 670 


Scofield, Rebecca, 645 


Selleck, Matilda, 533 


Scofield, Richard, 449, 482, 511, 644, 


Selleck, Nathan, 483. 670 


645 


Selleck, Nathaniel, 77 


Scofield, Richard, Jr., 482 


Selleck, Phebe, 545 


Scofield, Ruth, 508, 645, 672 


Selleck, Shadrach, 533 


Scofield, Samuel, 643, 644 


Selleck, Stephen, 241, 389 


Scofield, Sarah, 643, 644 


Selleck, Stephen P., 420 


Scofield, Selah, 137 


Selleck, Susannah, 562 


Scofield, Silas, 137, 644 


Selleck, Thaddeus, 75 


Scofield, Susannah, 604, 644 


Selleck, Uriah, 140 


Scofield, Sylvanus, 138, 644, 645 


Seney, R., Rev., 428 


Scofield, Thaddeus, 645 


Serene, J. S., Rev., 437 


Scofield, Thankful, 644, 676 


Serle, , 532 


Scofield, William E., Rev., 433 


Seton, Ernest Thompson, 358 



Index to Persons 



755 



Seward, , 319 

Seward, Cornelia M., 628 
Seward, Janet, 628 
Seward, William, Rev., 408 
Seward, William H., 628 



Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour, 
Seymour 
Seymour 

647 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 

560, 58 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 
Seymour 



, General, 247 

, 496 

Abigail, 583, 646, 647 
Ann, 581 
Catharine, 646 
Daniel, 646 
Drake, 128, 133 
Ebenezer, 647 
Edward W., 277 
Elizabeth, 598, 610, 646, 



Hannah, 558, 646, 647 

Jehiel, 646 

John, 646 

Jonathan, 647 

Margaret, 647 

Martha, 646 

Mary, 505, 646, 647 

Matthew, 646 

Mercy, 646, 647 

Nathaniel, 647 

Rebecca, 646 

Rhoda, 560 

Richard, 645, 647 

Ruth, 646, 647 

Sabrina, 517 

Samuel, 118, 137, 517, 558, 
!l, 646, 647 

Sarah, 646 

Susan, 646 

Thomas, 495, 502, 646 

Zachariah, 647 
Shackleton, Frederick J., Rev., 430 
Shaffer, J. W., Colonel, 234 

Shank, -, 528 

Sharp, Alexander Y., 623 

Shasty, George A., 390 

Shaw, Gilbert B., Rev., 409 

Shaw, James, 123, 125 

Shaw, Mary, 483 

Shaw, William, 483 

Shay, Michael, 483 

Shear, A. Lincoln, Rev., 404, 438 

Sheeran, Edward, 385 

Sheeran, Patrick, 241 

Sheldon, , Colonel, 139 

Shepard, Cai -^'e E., 393 
Shepard, Frank, 353, 393 
Shepard, J. B., Rev., 428 
Shepard, Martin H., 344 
Sheran, Michael, 239 

Sheridan, , General, 237, 238 

Sherman, Bezaleel, 509 
Sherman, Mary, 626 
Sherman, Roger, 115, 117 



Sherman, Susannah, 509 

Sherman, WilH am T., General, 221, 



223 

Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 

651, 652 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 

652 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 

652 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 

649, 652 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 
Sherwood, 



Aaron, 650 

Abel, 82 

Abigail, 647, 648, 649, 652 

Abraham, 125 

Adelaide, 650 

Alanson, 649 

Allen, 649 

Andrew, 82, 652 

Ann, 647, 648 

Ann F., 651 

Anna, 652 

Augusta, 650 

Augustus L., 652 

Benjamin, 647, 649, 651 

Caroline, 649 

Carrie W., 651 

Charles, 652 

Daniel, 128, 132, 648, 649, 

Daniel J., 651 

Daniel W., 650 

Darius, 650 

David, 648 

Ehza, 649 

Eliza B., 650 

EHzabeth, 631, 648, 649, 

Ella J., 650 
ElUthan, 128, 132 
Elnathan, 123, 125 
Emma J., 651 
Fanny, 652 
Frances A., 649 
Frank T., 651 
Frederick A., 651 
George, 652 
George E., 650 
George W., 650 
Georgianna, 650 
Gertrude, 649 
Hannah, 647, 649, 650, 

Harriet P., 650 
Henrietta, 650 
Hezekiah, 651 
Horatio N., 650 
Hugford, 650 
Isaac, 647, 648 
Jabez, Captain, 98, 649 
Jabez, 51, 448, 468, 483, 

Jabez, Jr., 98, 181 
James, 131, 651 
James K. O., 650 
Jane, 648 
Jane Ann, 651 
Jeremiah, 650 



756 



Index to Persons 



Sherwood, John, 648, 652 
Sherwood, John M., 502, 650 
Sherwood, Jonathan, 652 
Sherwood, Joseph, Sr., 483 
Sherwood, Joseph, 465, 484, 648 
Sherwood, Joseph E., 650 
Sherwood, Jotham, 649 
Sherwood, Kate, 649, 650 
Sherwood, Lemuel, 648 
Sherwood, Maria C., 652 
Sherwood, Mary, 450, 453, 458, 460, 

478, 647, 648, 649, 652 
Sherwood, Mary E., 651 
Sherwood, Mary L., 651 
Sherwood, Matthew, 648 
Sherwood, Maud, 651 
Sherwood, Nathaniel, 481, 483, 648, 

649 
Sherwood, Nehemiah, 632, 648, 649 
Sherwood, Nelson, 651 
Sherwood, Nemiah, 82 
Sherwood, Oliver, 130, 424, 631 
Sherwood, Phebe, 648 
Sherwood, Phebe L., 651 
Sherwood, Pruella, 650 
Sherwood, Rebecca, 615, 647, 648, 

649 
Sherwood, Rose, 647 
Sherwood, Ruth, 647, 648, 649, 652 
Sherwood, Samuel, 77, 483, 487, 647, 

648, 652 
Sherwood, Samuel S., 651 
Sherwood, Sarah, 647, 648, 649, 652 
Sherwood, Sarah E., 652 
Sherwood, Silas, 652 
Sherwood, Stephen, 31, 450, 457, 483, 

648, 649 
Sherwood, Susannah, 649 
Sherwood, Tamsen, 648 
Sherwood, Thomas, 22, 647, 648 
Sherwood, Warren, 649 
Sherwood, Willet, 650 
Sherwood, William B., 649 
Sherwood, William C, 650 
Sherwood, William E., 650 
Sherwood, William H., 22 j, 650, 651 
Shete, Samson, 483 
Shew, Jemima, 626 
Shew, John, 626 
Shew, Marietta, 626 
Shields, William H., Rev., 444 
Shippee, WiUiam A., 239 
Sibert, James, 251 
Sickels, Ehakim, 77 
Sidney, James, 219 
Sigel, Franz, General, 244 

Sigsbee, , Captain, 270 

Silkman, John, 640 
Sill, David, 71 
Silleck. See Selleck 



Sillsberry, Jonathan, 72 

Simkins, , 678 

Simmons, Sylvanus, 632 
Simons, Adam, 483 
Simonson, Nancy M., 651 
Simonton, Catherine, 627 
Simpson, Cornelia, 641 
Sims, John H., 241 
Singleton, Thomas H., 256 
Skelding, Rebecca, 508 
Skelding, Thomas, 509 
SkelHnger, Silas, 528 
Slagle, Sullivan, 254 
Slanter, James, 125 
Slason, EUzabeth, 604 
Slason, Mary, 509, 604, 676 
Slason, Peter, 77 
Slason, Sarah, 645, 656 
Slason, Sylvanus, 77 
Slater, Abraham, 653 
Slater, Arnold, 653 
Slater, Atwood, 258, 653 
Slater, Augustus, 653 
Slater, Charles, 653 
Slater, Daniel, 660 
Slater, David, 140 
Slater, Edward S., 654 
Slater, Eliza, 653 
Slater, George A., 652, 654 
Slater, Henry, 653 
Slater, James, 653 
Slater, Jeremiah, 653, 660 
Slater, John, 653 
Slater, JuHaE., 654 
Slater, Maria, 653 
Slater, Mary, 652 
Slater, Mary G., 654 
Slater, Phebe, 653 
Slater, Purdy G., 653 
Slater, Ruth, 644, 654 
Slater, Sanford, 653 
Slater, Sanford A., 258, 653 
Slater, Sarah, 653 
Slater, William, 240 
Slauson, Ebenezer, 73 
Slauson, Isaac, 74 
Slauson, John, 82 
Slauson, Silvanus, 74 
Slawson, Eleazer, 447, 483 
Slawson, George, 556 
Slawson, Hannah, 562 
Slawson, James, 570 
Slawson, Jesse, 684 
Sloem, Alexander, 77 
Slosen, Gershom, 124 

Sloson, , 568 

Sloson, Jonathan, 673 
Slossman, Israel, 74 

Smith, , General, 231 

Smith, , Commander, 277 



Index to Persons 



757 



Smith, , 72, 513, 527, 568, 


622, 


Smith, Harry P., 588 


640, 641, 679 




Smith, Henry, 66, 461, 484, 602, 654, 


Smith, Abigail, 527, 536, 633, 


655. 


657 


656, 657, 658 




Smith, Henry F., Rev., 426 


Smith, Abijah, 659 




Smith, Herbert M., Rev., 422 


Smith, Abraham, 138, 657 




Smith, Isaac, Dr., 612 


Smith, Amos, 604, 655 




Smith, Isaac, 73, 655, 664 


Smith, Ann, 654, 658 




Smith, Isaac, Jr., 190 


Smith, Anne, 515, 657 




Smith, Isaac E., Rev., 433 


Smith, Austin, 604 




Smith, Israel, 73, 657 


Smith, Barek, 629 




Smith, Jabez, 138, 646, 656 


Smith, Benjamin, 135, 139, 189, 


452, 


Smith, Jacob, 527 


483, 484, 585, 656, 658 




Smith, James, 125, 196, 657 


Smith, Benjamin P., 421 




Smith, Jasper, 84, 137 


Smith, Betsy, 684 




Smith, Jennie, 276 


Smith, Caleb, 137, 483, 644, 656 




Smith, Jeremiah, 659 


Smith, Charles, Captain, 134 




Smith, Jesse, 657 


Smith, Charles, Lieutenant, 130 




Smith, Job, 656 


Smith, Charles, M.D., 381 




Smith, John, Captain, 99, 104 


Smith, Charles, 98, 483, 512, 588 


,601, 


Smith, John, 82, 84, 126, 137, 138, 


658 




551,654,655,656,658,659 


Smith, Charles, Jr., 98 




Smith, John, 3d, 137 


Smith, Charles B., 254 




Smith, John J., 657 


Smith, Charles E., 657 




Smith, John M., Rev., 430, 432 


Smith, Charles I., 350 




Smith, Jonah, 656 


Smith, Chauncey, 333 




Smith, Jonathan, 658 


Smith, Cornell, 655 




Smith, Joseph, 81, 138, 484, 655, 657, 


Smith, Daniel, 31, 40, 48,61,168 


334- 


658 


395, 402, 483, 484, 498, 595, 


601, 


Smith, Joshua, 75, 131, 135. 168, 654, 


654. 655- 656 




655 


Smith, Daniel, Sr., 55 




Smith, Josiah, 77, 655 


Smith, Daniel, Jr., 484, 498 




Smith, Julia, 660 


Smith, David, 66, 75, 131, 242, 


484, 


Smith, Julia E., 657 


656, 658 




Smith, Kezia, 658 


Smith, Deborah, 656 




Smith, Luke, 655 


Smith, E., Rev., 428 




Smith, Lydia, 655, 657 


Smith, Ebenezer, 66, 67, 484, 658 


Smith, Margaret, 381 


Smith, Eleazer, 658 




Smith, Maria, 657 


Smith, Elihu, 657 




Smith, Martha, 659 


Smith, Elihu P., 403 




Smith, Mary, 537, 604, 612, 655, 656, 


Smith, EUzabeth, 492, 498, 655, 


657, 


657, 658, 678 


658, 659, 661 




Sm.ith, Matilda, 657 


Smith, EHzabeth K., 581 




Smith, Matthew H., Rev., 266, 268 


Smith, Elizabeth L., 533 




Smith, Mehitable, 637 


Smith, Emanuel, 220 




Smith, Mercy, 633, 656 


Smith, Enoch, 126 




Smith, Mindal, 424 


Smith, Ethan, 657 




Smith, Moses, Lieutenant, 83 


Smith, Ezekiel, 563, 659 




Smith, Moses, 74, 77, 484. 656, 659 


Smith, Ezra, 484, 655, 657 




Smith, Moses, Jr., Lieutenant, 81, 


Smith, F. A., Rev., 437 




Smith, Moses W., 657 


Smith, Fanny, 660 




Smith, Nathan, 98, 126, 453-457. 458, 


Smith, Francis, Colonel, 106 




473- 474. 484. 552, 656 


Smith, Franklin, 381 




Smith, Nathan, Jr., 453, 477- 484 


Smith, Frederick G. C, Captain 


291 


Smith, Nathaniel, 656, 658 


Smith, Frederick G. C, Lieutenant, | 


Smith, Nehemiah, 131, 492 


271 




Smith, Noah, 657 


Smith, George J., 354 




Smith, Peter, 656, 659 


Smith, Hannah, 575, 602, 619, I 


355. 


Smith, Phebe, 659 


656, 657, 658, 659 




Smith, Polly, 140, 584 


Smith, Harriet, 657 




Smith, Rachel, 655 



758 



Index to Persons 



Smith, Rebecca, 498, 60 1, 655, 657, 

658, 659 
Smith, Reuben, 657 
Smith, Ruth, 498, 655, 657 
Smith, Samuel, 66, 67, 75, 125, 484, 

486, 654, 658 
Smith, Samuel, Jr., 140 
Smith, Sarah, 588, 655, 656, 657, 658 
Smith, Sarah E., 684 
Smith, Solomon, 656, 659 
Smith, Stephen, 126, 131, 135 
Smith, Susannah, 656, 659 
Smith, Temperance, 658 
Smith, Thomas, Rev., 441, 442 
Smith, Thomas, 654 
Smith, Whitman, 75, 659 
Smith, Wilham, 126, 484, 516, 657 
Smith, William F., Rev., 428, 430, 

433, 435 
Smith, WiUiam H., Rev., 414 
Smith, William J., 213, 263, 296, 336, 

337, 360, 386 
Smith, Winthrop D., 34S 
Smithsur, Jasper, 80 
Smitz, Claes C., 11 
Snider, James, 251 
Sniffen, Caleb, 484 
Sniffen, Daniel, 419 
Sniffen, Irving L., 224 
Sniffen, Jacob, 651 
Sniffen, Jonathan, 586 
Sniffen, Nathan, 447, 484 
Sniffen, Polly, 653 
Sniffen, Ruth, 586 
Sniffen, Sarah A., 588 
Sniffen, William, 240, 588 
Snyder, Oscar E., 224 
Sours, Eva E., 654 
Sparks, T., Rev., 428 
Sparkes, William H., 436 
Spinning, Humphrey, 574 
Springer, Frederick A., 342 
Squier, Nathaniel, 77 
Stallyon, Deborah, 492 
Stallyon, Edward, 492 
Standish, Miles, Captain, 99, 104 
Stanley, Jerusha, 664 
Starkins, Samuel S., 258 
Starr, Benajah, 524 
Starr, Fanny, 583 
Steadwell, Jarvis, 491 
Stearns, Charles, Rev., 430, 432 
Stebbins, Abigail, 499 
Stebbins, Joseph, Ensign, 81 
Stebbins, Joseph, 71 
Stebbins, Josiah, Ensign, 76 
Stebbins, Josiah, 71 
Steel, John, 646 
Steel, J. D., 301 
Steffens, Lincoln, 358 



Steiner, Henry J., Colonel, 273 
Steiner, John, Rev., 439 
Stephens, Missouri A., 651 
Stephens, WilHam, 137, 140 
Stevens, Charles, 341 
Stevens, Herbert B., 295, 296, 383 
Stevens, Hezekiah, 79 
Stevens, Mary, 662 
Stevens, Samuel, 584 - 
Stevenson, E., Rev., 430 
Stevenson, T. G., Colonel, 229 
Steward, Daniel, 77 
Steward, James, 74 

Stewart, , 622 

Stickney, , 413 

Stiles, Isaac, 618 
Still, Henry S., Rev., 435 
Still, J. K., Rev., 430 
Stillman, George, Rev., 433 
Stillwell, Lysander, 254 
Stoakham, John, 484 
Stoakliam, Samuel, 485 
Stoakham, Stephen, 485 

Stockdell, , 622 

Stone, Elizabeth, 367 
Stone, EUzabeth M., 366 
Stone, John, 77 
Stone, Mary E., 367 
Stone, Rufus B., 254 
Stone, Thomas, 366 
Stone, William E., 367 
Stoothoff, Hattie M., 494 
Stoothoff, Stephen A., 494 
Stottler, Christopher, 249 
Strang, Charlotte, 633 
Strang, Daniel, 633, 638 
Strang, Glorinda, 633 
Strang, Phebe, 632 
Stratton, Amy, 532 
Street, Julian, 358 

Sti"ong, , General, 222 

Strong, Benjamin, Rev., 408, 485, 513 
Strong, Jedediah, 89 
Strong, Josiah, Rev., 286 
Stuart, T. McCants, Rev., 443 
Stubbins, Eleanor, 654 
Stuckey, Elizabeth, 517 
Stuckey, George, 517, 518, 617 
Studwell, Abraham, 80, 82 
Studwell, Alanson, 661 
Studwell, Albijean, 662 . . 
Studwell, Alexander, 660 
Studwell, Allen, 660 
Studwell, Amy, 661 
Studwell, Anthony, 131, 661 
Studwell, Augustus, 660 
Studwell, Benjamin, 662 
Studwell, Betsy, 661 
Studwell, Brundage, 662 
Studwell, Calvin, 661 



Index to Persons 



759 



Stud well, Caroline, 660 

Studwell, Carthagena, 662 

Studwell, Charity, 662 

Studwell, Charles, 334, 660 

Studwell, Clarissa, 660 

Studwell, David, 662 

Studwell, Delia A., 661 

Studwell, Diadema, 661 

Studwell, Drake, 661 

Studwell, Edgar, 661 

Studwell, Edwin, 660 

Studwell, Elethea, 662 

Studwell, Eliza, 660, 661 

Studwell, Eliza A., 660, 661 

Studwell, Elizabeth, 661, 662 

Studwell, Enoch, 661 

Studwell, Esther J., 661 

Studwell, Ezekiel, 659 

Studwell, Fanny, 661 

Studwell, Frances, 661 

Studwell, Gabriel, 137, 660 

Studwell, Gatsy, 662 

Studwell, George D., 241 

Studwell, George H., 660 

Studwell, George O., 661 

Studwell, Gilbert, 662 

Studwell, Hannah, 661 

Studwell, Harvey, 660 

Studwell, Henry, 123, 129, 134, 661 

Studwell, Henry F., 661 

Studwell, Hester, 662 

Studwell, James, 661, 662 

Studwell, Jarvis, 661 

Studwell, Jehiel, 661 

Studwell, Jemima, 659, 661 

Studwell, Jeremiah, 660 

Studwell, Joanna, 662 

Studwell, John, 659, 661, 662 

Studwell, John E., 659 

Studwell, John J., 660 

Studwell, John S., 661 

Studwell, Joseph, 55, 134. 477- 485. 

659, 660, 661, 662 
Studwell, Julia, 661 
Studwell, Letitia, 653, 660 
Studwell, Luke, 661 
Studwell, Luther W., 661 
Studwell, Martha, 485, 662 
Studwell, Mary, 426, 622, 661, 662 
Studwell, Nathaniel, 69, 659 
Studwell, Nelson, 355, 661 
Studwell, Noah, 661 
Studwell, Polly A., 661 
Studwell, Rachel, 661 
Studwell, Ralph, 661 
Studwell, Richard, 190, 653, 660 
Studwell, Rodger, 662 
Studwell, Roswell, 660 
Studwell, Samantha, 661 
Studwell, Sanford, 660 



Studwell, Sarah M., 660 

Studwell, Silas H., 660 

Studwell, Smith, 661 

Studwell, Solomon, 190, 660, 661 

Studwell, Susan, 631 

Studwell, Susannah, 662 

Studwell, Thomas, 25, 26, 55, 47i. 

485, 659, 660, 683 
Studwell, T. Nelson, 661 
Studwell, Ward, 125 
Studwell, WiUiam A., 661 
Studwell, Zillah, 661 
Sturges, Christopher, 485 
Sturges, Isaac M., 361 
Sturges, John, 546 
Sturges, Jonathan, 501 
Sturges, Mary, 677 
Sturges, Samuel, Rev., 404 
Stuyvesant, Peter, 21, 65 
Sullivan, Eugene L., Rev., 442 
Sullivan, James, 215 
Sullivan, James N., 383 
Sumner, Samuel B., Colonel, 264, 265, 

267 

Sutherland, , 512 

Sutherland, Abigail, 663, 664 
Sutherland, Ann, 663 
Sutherland, Anna, 664 
Sutherland, Anne, 663 
Sutherland, Anor, 663 
Sutherland, Arick, 664 
Sutherland, Benjamin, 663 
Sutherland, Betsy, 663 
Sutherland, Charles, 417-662 
Sutherland, Charlotte, 663 
Sutherland, Daniel, 663, 664 
Sutherland, David, 585, 664 
Sutherland, Deborah, 663 
Sutherland, Ebenezer, 663 
Sutherland, Esther, 664 
Sutherland, Hannah, 643, 663, 664 
Sutherland, Helena, 663 
Sutherland, Isabella, 664 
Sutherland, James, 664 
Sutherland, Jerusha, 664 
Sutherland, Joanna, 663 
Sutherland, Joel, 664 
Sutherland, John, 664 
Sutherland, Jonah, 663 
Sutherland, Joseph, 664 
Sutherland, Judith, 664 
Sutherland, Justus, 664 . 
Sutherland, Lewis, 663 
Sutherland, Margaret, 663 
Sutherland, Mary, 663, 664 
Sutherland, Mead, 663 
Sutherland, Peter, 664 
Sutherland, Polly, 663 
Sutherland, Rachel, 663, 664 
Sutherland, Reuben, 663 



76o 



Index to Persons 



Sutherland, Roger, 485, 663 
Sutherland, Samuel, 663 
Sutherland, Sarah, 663, 664 
Sutherland, Seth, 663 
Sutherland, Silas, 499, 663, 664 
Sutherland, Smith, 664 
Sutherland, Solomon, 664 
Sutherland, Stephen, 663 
Sutherland, William, 485, 662, 663, 

664 
Sutherland, William R., 664 
Sutton, Aaron, 667 

Abby, 668 

Abby J., 667 

Abigail, 666, 668 

Abraham, 667, 668 

Alice, 666 

Allen, 666 

Ambrose, 665 

Amy, 666, 668 

Andrew, 665 

Ann, 667 

Anna, 666 

Benjamin, 123, 128, 132,462, 
668, 669 

Benjamin, Jr., 132 

Caleb, 665, 668 

Charles, 668 

Daniel, 451, 665, 667, 668, 



Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 

631, 
Sutton, 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 

669 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 
Sutton 



Deborah, 667, 668 

Dorcas, 666 

Edmund, 668 

Edward, 665 

Eleanor, 668 

EUzabeth C, 666, 667 

Esther, 667 

Frances, 668 

George, 665 

Guledma, 668 

Hannah, 665, 667 

Henry, 665, 667 

Isaac, 667 

Jacob, 667 

James, 506, 666, 669 

Jane, 668 

Jerusha, 666, 668 

Jesse, 666 

Joanna, 666 

John, 608, 665, 666, 668 

Joseph, 485, 665, 666 

Joshua, 668 

Lambert, 665 

Leonard, 668 

Louisa, 667 

Lydia, 668 

Mary, 665, 666, 667, 668 

Moses, 667 

Nathan, 424 

Nehemiah, 669 



Sutton, Pell, 665 

Sutton, Phebe, 666, 667, 668 

Sutton, Phebe C, 666 

Sutton, Rachel, 667, 668, 669 

Sutton, Reuben, 668 

Sutton, Richard, 668 

Sutton, Richardson, 666 

Sutton, Robert, 665, 667 

Sutton, Sally, 668 

Sutton, Samuel, 668 

Sutton, Sarah, 667 

Sutton, Silas, 666 

Sutton, Simon, 665 

Sutton, Solomon, 665 

Sutton, Sophia, 665, 668 

Sutton, Stephen, 668 

Sutton, Thomas, 485, 505, 666, 667, 

669 
Sutton, Thomas C, 666 
Sutton, William, 665, 666 
Swan, Walter, 341 
Sweatt, William H., 348 
Sweeney, John, 225, 242 
Sweet, Homer D., 491 
Sweetlandt, Lionel R., 191 
Swift, Eben, 627 
Sylvester, Richard, 664 



T 



Taintor, Charles, 495 

Taladay, Stephen, 485 

Taladay, Stephen, Jr., 485 

Talbot, Frederick, 271 

Talbot, Harry, 383 

Talbot, Samuel Q., Rev., 426, 427, 

431 
Talbot, William, 384 
Talcott, Norman, 358 
Talcott, Richard H. L., 258 
Talmadge, Charles, 652 
Talmadge, James, 664 
Talmadge, Robert E., 383 
Talmadge, Thomas, 680 
Tanner, N. A., 266 

Tarleton, , General, 179 

Tashe, John, 48, 485 
Tatlock, Archdeacon, 423 

Taylor, , 501, 505 

Taylor, Barak, 77 
Taylor, Charles, 66 
Taylor, Edward H., 253 
Taylor, George, Rev., 268, 433 
Taylor, Henry, 123, 125 
Taylor, Jefferson, 256 
Taylor, John, Lieutenant, 76 
Taylor, John, 76, 125 
Taylor, Jonathan, 623 
Taylor, Joseph, 553 
Taylor, Joseph A., 351 



Index to Persons 



761 



Taylor, Joshua, 137 

Taylor, Major, 125 

Taylor, Nelson, 368 

Taylor, Phineas, 77 

Taylor, Preserved, 72 

Taylor, Reuben, 76 

Taylor, Sally M., 553 

Taylor, Zebediah, 123, 128, 132 

Tenison, David, 220 

Tenpany, Ard, 254 

Ter Bush, , 637 

Terrell, Henry S., General, 286 

Terrell, John G., 219 

Terry, , General, 230, 231,235 

Teufle, John G., 258 

Tharp, Eduert, 81 

Tharp, Edward, 83 

Tharp, John, 123, 124 

Tharps, Daniel, 72, 77, 82 

Tharps, Edward, 72, 74 

Thatcher, Clarissa J., 426 

Thatcher, George, 426 

Thatcher, W., Rev., 428 

Theal, Ebenezer, 615 

Theal, Mary, 615 

Theal, Thomas, 517 

Thinch, Thomas, 125 

Thinch, WiUiam, 125 

Thomas, Charles, 454- 485. 557 

Thomas, Eliza, 619 

Thomas, George B., 255 

Thomas, John, 485 

Thomas, Joseph, 84 

Thomas, Martha, 485 

Thomas, Mar^, M., 619 

Thomas. Noble W., Rev., 428, 430, 

432 
Thomas, WiUiam, 619 
Thompson, Archibald, 125 
Thompson, Charles K., 176, 599 
Thompson, EUzabeth, 546 
Thompson, H. J., 265 
Thompson, John, 77, 54^ 
Thompson, Morris, 257 
Thompson, M. George, Rev., 285, 419 
Thompson, William A., 176, 599 
Thompson, William D., Rev., 435 
Thorn, Thomas, 666 
Thorn, William, 176, 599 
Thome, Francis, 39, 48. 483. 485 
Thornton, Richard, 256 
Thorp, Charles, 538 
Thurston, Ann, 534 
Thurston, Joseph, 534 
Thurston, Mary, 534 
Thurston, Richard B., Rev., 412 
Tierney, Jeremiah, 258, 368 
Tierney, Mary, 368 
Tierney, WiUiam L., 368 



Tillotson, AdeUa J., 426 

Tillotson, Gilbert H., 426 

Tillotson, Harrison, 426 

Tillotson, Nancy M., 426 

Tillson, Zachariah, 240 

Timlow, George W., Rev., 409 

Timpany, Amanda, 687 

Timpany, John, 190 

Timpany, WiUiam, 190, I97 

Tingue, WiUiam J., 344. 348. 349 

Tinker, George E., 241 

Tipohl, John, 217 

Titus, Daniel, 62 

Titus, John, 62 

Titus, Samuel, 62 

Titus, WiUiam, 62 

Todd, Abigail, 670 

Todd, Abraham, Rev., 400, 453. 4»5. 

563, 670 
Todd, Abraham, 670 
Todd, Abraham, Jr., 75. 578 
Todd, Ambrose S., Rev., 4^9 
Todd, A. Stanley, Lieutenant, 292 
Todd, Christopher, 669 
Todd, Daniel, 670 
Todd, Grace, 669 
Todd, Hannah, 669, 670 
Todd, James, 670 
Todd, John, 134. 669 
Todd, Jonah, 669, 670 
Todd, Joseph, 669 
Todd, Lois, 670 
Todd, Mabel, 670 
Todd, Mary, 669, 670 
Todd, Mercy, 670 
Todd, Michael, 669 
Todd, Oliver, 670 
Todd, Samuel, 669 
Todd, Sarah, 669 
Todd, Walter B., 260 
Tomes, Benjamin, 177 

Tomes, Francis, Jr., i77 

Tompkins, Rebecca, 519 

Tooker, Daniel, 485 

Tooker, Joseph, 486 

Topham, Margaret, 420 

Torrance, David, 277 

Totten, Joseph, 667 

Town, John, 123, 124, 133. HO 

Town, Jonathan, 125 

Town, WiUiam, 125, 140 

Towner, Ithiel, 80 

Towner, Othiel, 83 

Townsend, Coles, 130, I33 

Townsend, Halstead, 651 

Townsend, Jonadab, 486 

Townsend, Kate, 651 

Townsend, Samuel, 632 

Tracy, Hezekiah, 176, 189, 194 
1 Tracy, Horatio N., 176 



762 



Index to Persons 



Tracy, John J., 176, 196, 397 

Traner, John, 82 

Travers, Joseph, 139 

Travis, Joseph, 123, 125 

Travis, Robert, Rev., 430, 432 

Trcadwell, Ehzabeth, 634 

Treat, Amos S., 361 

Treat, Charles R., Rev., 266, 268, 

393. 407 
Treat, R., 53 
Treat, Solomon, Rev., 40, 403, 405, 

486 
Treen, Benjamin, 395, 486, 497 
Tripp, Benjamin, 586 
Trowbridge, Alexander, 585 
Trowbridge, Daniel, 646 
Trowbridge, Seth, 80 
Truesdale, William H., 296 

Trumbull, , Chaplain, 230 

Trumbull, , Governor, 102, 122 

Tryon, Governor, 49, 120, 154, 160- 

171 

Tryton, , 72 

Tucker, Dinah, 613 
Tucker, J., 661 
Tucker, Joseph, 640 
Tucker, Mary, 539 
Tumbling, Elisha, 72 
Tumbling, Stephen, 72 

Turner, , Captain, 5 

Turner, Isaac, 669 
Turner, Lawrence, 25, 486 
Turner, Mary, 570 
Turner, Samuel, 570 

Turney, , 566 

Turney, Ann, 647 

Turney, Benjamin, 647, 648 

Turney, Elizabeth, 561 

Turney, Mary, 648 

Turney, Rebecca, 648 

Turney, Sarah, 648 

Tuttle, David, 670 

Tuttle, Katharine, 670 

Tuttle, Mary, 670 

Tweed, William M., 335, 339 

Tweedale, Eliza, 369 

Tweedale, Emily G., 369 

Tweedale, Joseph, 369 

Tyler, Abigail, 640 

Tyler, Henry D., Colonel, 286 

Tyler, Jehiel, 69, 486 

Tyler, John, 486 

Tyler, John, Jr., 481 

Tyler, Patience, 526 

Tyng, S. H., Rev., 654 

Tyson, R. T., Rev., 437 



U 



Udell, Harriet, 521 



UUman, J. M., Colonel, 273 
Underbill, Abraham, 668 
Underbill, Ehzabeth, 617 
Underbill, Humphrey, 515, 617 
Underbill, Isaac, 667 
Underbill, John, Captain, 16, 17, 18 

20 
Underbill, Nathaniel, 537 
Underbill, Rebecca, 667 
Underbill, Sarah, 515, 617, 667, 668 
Underbill, Thomas, 667 
Underwood, Thomas, 84 
Ustick, Thomas, 486 
Utter, John, 448 
Utter, Josiah, 486 



V 



Vail, Henry W., 266 

Valentine, David, 530 

Valiant, WiUiam, 486 

Van Amringe, J. H., 266, 268 

Van Beyeran, Annetye, 9, 17 

Van Cortland, Pierre, General, 177 

Van Dauxer, , 629 

Vanderhoflf, Jacob C, 249 

Van Dusen, Robert J., 218 

Vandusen, Seymour, Rev., 430, 432 

Van Duzen, Lucretia, 559 

Van Dyke, Hendrick, Ensign, 12, 18 

Van Horn, John, 486 

Van Houton, Albert, 254 

Van Kleek, Henry, 514 

Van Middlesworth, Andrew, 628 

Van Middlesworth, Mary J., 628 

Van Middlesworth, Mollona, 628 

Van Ness, George S., 251 

Van Nostram, Albert, Rev., 427, 431 

Van Nostram, Andrew, Rev., 427, 431 

Van Pelt, Jacob, 486 

Van Tassel, , 639 

Van Wert, Samuel, 251 

VarUier, Jan, 25 

Vausburg, Martin, 664 

Vedito, Jasper, 48, 477, 486 

Verdin, Peter, 76 

Vincent, George S., 391 

Vinton, Joseph, Rev., 428 

Von Twiller, Wouter, 10 

Voorhees, James H., 227 

Voorhis, Jacob, 355 

Voorhis, John, 204, 208, 209, 212, 353, 

355- 359. 393 
Vowles, Jonathan, 478 

W 

Wagner, Chris, 388 
Waite, Annie E., 363 
Waite, John T., 277, 363 



Index to Persons 



763 



Wakefield, W. F., 258 
Wakeman, Aaron, 685 
Wakeman, A. J., 394 

Walker, , General, 233 

Walker, Isaac, 84 

Walker, Joseph, 186 

Walker, Josiah, Lieutenant, 78 

Walker, Thomas, 368 

Walker, Timothy, 392 

Wallace, Epenetus, Dr., 525 

Wallace, John L., 240 

Wallace, Uriah, Maior, 525 

Waller, William B., Rev., 438 

Wallis, Joshua, 84 

Walls, David, 72 

Walsh, Annie E., 369 

Walsh, Emily G., 369 

Walsh, James F., 289, 296, 369, 370 

Walsh, Robert J., 282, 296, 302, 337, 

358, 359- 360, 361. 369- 370, 397 
Walter, Charles, Colonel, 245 
Walter, Nathan, 72 
Walters, Catherine A., 650 
Walton, Richard, 220 
Walton, W., Rev., 437 
Wanser, Abraham, 457, 486, 592 
Wanser, Jacob, 446, 453, 486 
Wanser, Jesse, 84 
Wansworth, Abraham, 66 
Warburton, Adolphus F., 649 
Ward, Albert, 256 
Ward, Andrew, 7 
Ward, Artemas, General, 108 
Ward, Jemima, 603 
Ward, Peter, 84 
Ward, Thomas, 225 
Ward, WiUiam E., 349 
Ward, WiUiam L., 350 
Warden, James, 73 

Wardwell, , 621 

Wardwell, Isaac, 605 
Wardwell, Margery, 656 
Wardwell, Mary, 656 
Wardwell, Rebecca, 603 
Wardwell, WiUiam, 656 

Waring, , 123, 679 

Waring, Abigail, 671, 672 
Waring, Abraham, 131, 672 
Waring, Amos, 673 
Waring, Ann, 672 
Waring, Ann M., 671 
Waring, Betsy, 671 
Waring, CadwaUader, 672 
Waring, Charles, 672 
Waring, Daniel, 672 
Waring, Deborah, 672 
Waring, Ebenezer, 137, 672 
Waring, Edmund, 670 
Waring, Eliakim, 671 
Waring, Elizabeth, 671, 672 



Waring, Enoch, 140 

Waring, Ephraim, 126 

Waring, Hannah, 671 

Waring, Hannah M., 671 

Waring, Henry, Captain, 545, 671 

Waring, Henry, Lieutenant, 126, 139 

Waring, Henry, 124, 126, 671, 672 

Waring, Herzon, 672 

Waring, Isaac, 670, 671 

Waring, Jacob, 670, 671 

Waring, James, 75, 126, 334. 671, 672 

Waring, James D., 671 

Waring, Jared, 673 

Waring, Jesse, 131, I34. 671- 672 

Waring, Joel, 670, 672 

Waring, John, 126, 138, 670, 671, 

673 
Waring, Jonathan, 671, 672 
Waring, Joseph, 131, 135, 672 
Waring, Joseph F., 671 
Waring, Mary, 670, 671, 672 
Waring, Mary W., 671 
Waring, Michael, 671, 672, 673 
Waring, Moses, 137 
Waring, Nancy, 671, 672 
Waring, Nathan, 140, 670 
Waring, Nathaniel, 672 
Waring, Noah, 135, 672 
Waring, Prudence, 672 
Waring, Rachel, 672 
Waring, Rebecca, 548, 672, 673 
Waring, Richard, 670 
Waring, Samuel, 138, 671, 672 
Waring, Sarah, 573, 671, 672, 673 
Waring, Sarah E., 671 
Waring, Scudder, 672, 675 
Waring, SeUeck, 671 
Waring, Simeon, 671 
Waring, Solomon, 670 
Waring, Stephen, 392, 671 
Waring, Stephen H., 671 
Waring, Susan, 671 
Waring, Sylvanus, 671 
Waring, Thaddeus, 671 
Waring, Tryphosa, 672 
Waring, WeUs, 672 
Waring, WiUiam, 672 
Waring, Zaccheus, 671 
Waring, Zarbudburrel, 672 
Warner, Eleanor, 570 
Warren, Daniel W., 250 
Warren, J. Meade, 266 
Washburn, Charles E., 254 
Washburn, David, 181 
Washburn, E., Rev., 428 
Washburn, Jacob C, Rev., 430, 433 
Washburn, Joseph, 671 
Washburn, MarshaU, 671 
Washburn, Thomas, Jr., 254 
Washburn, Thomas W., 258 



764 



Index to Persons 



Washington 
io6, 109, 
128, 143, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 

676 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 

674, 676, 
Waterbury, 

677 
Waterbury, 

676, 677 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 

675. 676, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 

674, 676 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 

675 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 
Waterbury, 

676 
Waterbury, 

677, 681 



, George, General, 
no. III, 112, 113, 
154, 157. 178 

, Major, 86 

, 568 

Abigail, 673, 674, 



104, 
125, 



675. 



Agnes H., 363 

Benjamin, 675 

Bethia, 673, 676 

Catee, 677 

Chloe, 675 

Daniel, 674 

David, General, 676 

David, Captain, 73, 76 

David, 44, 551, 570, 606, 

677, 680 

Ebenezer, 77, 604, 676, 

Elizabeth, 570, 674, 675, 

Ellen F., 363 
Elmira, 676 
Enos, 675 
Epenetus, 676 
Eunice, 674, 675 
Ezra, 675 
George P., 363 
Gideon, 674, 675 
Hannah, 582, 673, 674, 
677 

Hezekiah, 675 
Isaac, 675, 676, 677 
Jacob, 674 
James, 674, 676 
Jared, 676 
John, 315, 566, 582, 673, 

Jonathan, 674, 675 
Joseph, 675 
Josiah, 592, 675 
Lewis, 241 
Martha, 672, 673 
Mary, 673, 674, 676, 677 
Mercy, 674, 675, 677 
Molly, 676, 677 
Nathan, 677 
Nathaniel, 563, 673, 674, 

Peter, 73, 676 
Phineas, 676 
Prudence, 674 
Rachel, 566, 582, 673, 675 
Rebecca, 674 
Rose, 675 
Ruth, 675, 677 
Samuel, 562, 674, 675, 

Sarah, 673, 674, 675, 676, 



Waterbury, Squire, 677 
Waterbury, Squire A., 258 
Waterbury, Susannah, 676, 677 
Waterbury, Sylvanus, 676, 677 
Waterbury, Thomas, 509, 547, 581, 

674 
Waterbury, WiUiam, 126, 674, 676 
Waters, Phebe, 584 
Waters, Richard, 486 
Waters, WiUiam, 136, 139 
Watson, Horace, 255 
Watson, John, 646 
Watson, Mary, 646 
Watson, Titus, Captain, 162, 163 
Watt, Ephraim, Rev., 430 
Watt, Thomas J., Rev., 430 
Weaver, Peleg, Rev., 437 
Webb, Abigail, 561, 570, 678 
Webb, Benjamin, 75, 98, 134, 678 
Webb, Caleb, 638, 656, 678 
Webb, Charles, 484, 486, 678 
Webb, David, 137 
Webb, Deborah, 655, 679 
Webb, Eben, 678 
Webb, Ebenezer, 125, 678 
Webb, EKzabeth, 678 
Webb, Epenetus, 678 
Webb, Gilbert, 134 
Webb, Hannah, 592, 678, 679 
Webb, Henry, 359 
Webb, John, 677, 678 
Webb, Jonathan, 74, 77, 612 
Webb, Joseph, 84, 678 
Webb, Joseph, Jr., 592 
Webb, Joshua, 486, 678 
Webb, Margery, 565, 677, 678 
Webb, Mary, 678, 680 
Webb, Mercy, 508, 678. 
Webb, Nathaniel, 134, 678, 679 
Webb, Noah, 125, 135 
Webb, Patience, 612 
Webb, Phineas, 126 
Webb, Rachel, 679 
Webb, Richard, 677, 678 
Webb, Samuel, 678, 679 
Webb, Sarah, 561, 563, 608, 677, 678, 

679 
Webb, Susannah, 678 
Webb, Waitstill, 562, 678, 679 
Webber, Abigail, 593 
Webber, John, 241 
Webster, F. T. N., Rev., 444 
Webster, Nicholas, 673 
Webster, Sarah, 678 
Webster, Thomas, 125 
Webster, William R., Rev., 432, 433 

Weed, 564, 656, 677 

Weed, Abigail, 605, 645, 679, 681, 682 
Weed, Abraham, 680 
Weed, Amos, 651, 682 



Index to Persons 



765 



Weed, Ann, 681 

Weed, Bartholomew, 680 

Weed, Benjamin, 137, 486, 582, 681 

Weed, Bethia, 561, 605, 682 

Weed, Charles, 681 

Weed, Daniel, 679, 680, 681 

Weed, David, 680, 681 

Weed, Deborah, 681 

Weed, Dorcas, 679, 682 

Weed, Ebenezer, 680, 681 

Weed, Edward, 251 

Weed, EUjah, 138 

Weed, Elizabeth, 645, 679, 681, 682 

Weed, Elnathan, 681 

Weed, Enos, 680 

Weed, Epenetus, 681 

Weed, Ezra, 679 

Weed, Gideon, 137, 675, 681 

Weed, Gilbert, 81 

Weed, Hannah, 679, 680, 682 

Weed, Hezekiah, 681 

Weed, Isaac, 680, 682 

Weed, Isaac B., 651 

Weed, Israel, 675, 682 

Weed, Jacob, 679, 681, 682 

Weed, James, 680 

Weed, Jesse, 133 

Weed, Joanna, 679, 680 

Weed, John, 138, 619, 679, 680, 681 

Weed, John, Jr., 138 

Weed, John M., 431 

Weed, Jonas, 138, 566, 671, 679, 681, 
682 

Weed, Jonathan, 74, 682 

Weed, Joseph, 680 

Weed, Josiah, 681, 682 

Weed, Lydia, 681 

Weed, Mary, 657, 679. 680, 681, 682 

Weed, Mary S., 588 

Weed, Miles, 679, 680 

Weed, Naomi, 680 

Weed, Nathan, 679, 681 

Weed, Nathaniel, 131. 680, 681 

Weed, Nehemiah, 681 

Weed, Noah, 131 

Weed, Peter, 133, 592. 680 

Weed, Rachel, 606, 680 

Weed, Rebecca, 551, 680, 681 

Weed, Ruth, 537, 672, 680, 681 

Weed, Samuel, 680, 682 

Weed, Sarah, 508, 576, 676, 678, 679, 
680, 681, 682 

Weed, Silas, 682 

Weed, Susannah, 681 

Weed, Sylvanus, 681 

Weed, Thankful, 680, 681 

Weed, Youngs, 74, 77. 680 

Weeks, Benjamin, 667 

Weeks, Harvey J., 241 
Weeks, Jesse, 667 



Weeks, John, 128 

Weeks, Jonathan, 486 

Weeks, Martha, 598 

Weisensell, Frederick, 242 

Welch, James, 72 

Weller, Mary, 629 

Welles, Mary P., 628 

Welling, Alden, Rev., 422 

Wellstood, John G., Jr., 254 

Wescome, WiUiam B., Major, 207, 

212, 253 
Wescott, Abigail, 606 
Wescott, Daniel, 126 
Wescott, David, 137 
Wescott, Ephraim, 138 

Wescott, Joanna, 679 

Wescott, John, 486, 568 

Wescott, Nathaniel, 77 

Wescott, Richard, 606, 679 

Wesley, Stephen P., 254 

Wessels, Hercules, 139 

Wessels, James, 140 

Wessels, Laurence, 553 

Wessels, WiUiam H., 296 

Westervelt, Frank B., Rev., 430 

Wetmore, Anna, 510 

Wetmore, Charity, 635 

Wetmore, Esther, 506 

Wetmore, Ezrahiah, 517 

Wetmore, James, Rev., 415. 4^9. 5o6, 

Wetmore, Prosper M., 196 
Weug, John, 351 
Wey, Robert, 217 
Weygant, Charles, 643 
Wheaton, Daniel, 125, 487, 552 
Wheaton, S., Rev., 419 

Wheeler, , 268, 667 

Wheeler, Phila, 626 

Wheeler, Sarah, 647 

Wheeler, Stephen, 626 

Wheeler, Thomas, 647 

Whelpley, Ann, 543 

Whelpley, Daniel, 71. 73. 75- 125, 543 

Whelpley, Darling, 79, 130, I35. 181, 

182 
Whelpley, David, 450, 487. 49° ' 
Whelpley, Ebenezer, 139 
Whelpley, Hannah, 661 
Whelpley, Henry, 333 
Whelpley, Isaac, 76, 81 
Whelpley, Jonathan, 55, 60, 139, 450, 

457. 474. 487 , ^ ^ 
Whelpley, Jonathan, Jr., 69 
Whelpley, Mary, 639 
Whelpley, Nathan, 175, 448, 450. 456, 

487, 611 
Whelpley, Sarah, 611 

White, , Captain, 74 

White, , 541 



766 



Index to Persons 



White, Alethea, 381 

White, Amy, 381 

White, Andrew, 629 

White, Annie E., 369 

White, Bartow, M.D., 198, 381, 419, 

420 
White, Calvin, Rev., 419 
White, Catharine E., 580 
White, Charles, 138 
White, David, 72, 77 
White, Ebenezer, M.D., 381 
White, Elisha, 381 
White, George M., 277 
White, Henry B., 369 
White, Henry K., 682 
White, Jacob, 135, 381 
White, James H., 139 
White, John, 66, 191 
White, John C, M.D., 381 
White, John C, 258 
White, John F., M.D., 382 
White, Libbeus, 131 
White, Mahala, 381 
White. Nathan, 138 
White, Richard, 682 
White, Stephen, Capiain, 75, 98 
White, Stephen, 66, 38 1 
White, vStephen G., 335, 384 
White, Thomas, 72 
White, Thomas C., 370 
White, Uriah, 82 

White, William, 345, 354, 381, 578 
White, WiUiam J., Rev., 430 
Whitehead, Adam, 593 
Whitehead, Mercy, 642 

Whiting, Colonel , 132 

Whiting, Abigail, 675 
Whiting, Ebenezer, 75, 487 
Whiting, Rebecca, 573 
Whiting, Samuel, Lieutenant, 139 
Whiting, Samuel, M.D., 541 
Whiting, Samuel, 135 
Whiting, William F., 503 
Whitlock, Augustus, 348 
Whitman, Hannah, 658 

Whitney, , 549 

Whitney, A. R., 422 
Whitney, Betsy, 671 
Whitney, Daniel, 671 
Whitney, EHjah, 646 
Whitney, Elizabeth, 487 
Whitney, Hannah, 671 
Whitney, James, 72 
Whitney, WiUiam, 423 
Whittlesey, Julia, 564 
Whittlesey, Matthew B., 564 
Wiccomb, Jonathan, 84 
Wickel, E. J., 391 
Wicldiam, Merritt, 651 
Wicks, , 672 



Wicks, Ehzabeth, 602 
Wicks, Mary, 526 
Wicks, Sarah, 511, 676 
Wiggins, Mary, 628 
Wilbur, Lydia, 626 
Wilcox, Arthur R., 350 
Wilcox, Charles G. F., 682 
Wilcox, Chauncey, Rev., 412 
Wilcox, George E., 441 
Wilcox, Josiah, 199, 346, 441 
Wilcox, Julius B., Rev., 430 
Wilcox, Philemon, 138 
Wilcox, Robert M., 360 
Wilcox, Wilhs H., 240, 359 

Wilcoxson, , Colonel, 248 

Wildey, Joseph, Rev., 430 

Wildman, Esther, 583 

Wildman, Samuel, 583 

Wildman, Sarah, 646 

Wildman, Thomas, 646 

Wilkins, William H., 226 

Wilkinson, Edward, 658 

Willett, George F., 348 

Willett, William, 487 

Williams, Abigail, 637 

WiUiams, Atnos, 256 

Williams, Charles, 74, 77 

Williams, Dwight L., 265 

Williams, Elizabeth, 637 

Williams, John, Rev., 420, 421 

Williams, John, 137, 637 

Williams, Lizzie, 503 

Williams, Richard, 6 

Williams, Robert, 7, 27 

Williams, Samuel, 617 

Williams, Susan, 584 

WilHams, Thomas, 485 

Williams, William, 69 

Williamson, Abraham, 254 

Willis, Ehzabeth, 506, 685 

Willis, James, 506 

Willis, John, 487 

WilHs, Richard, 484, 487 

Wills, Charles T., 296, 299 

Wills, J. T., Rev., 278, 438 

Wilmot, Francis, 73, 80, 82, 84, 129, 

134. 487 
Wilmot, W. A., 389 
Wilmot, Zophar, 72, 77 
Wilson, Amanda V., 553 
Wilson, Andrew, 219, 685 
Wilson, Ann, 683, 685 
Wilson, Anthony, 510, 682, 683 
Wilson, Benjamin, 133, 181, 219, 683, 

686 
Wilson, Charity, 684 
Wilson, Charles E., 359 
Wilson, Daniel, 80, 684, 686 
Wilson, David, 140, 424, 553 
Wilson, Desire, 686 



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767 



Wilson, Ebenezer, 683 

Wilson, Edward, 683 

Wilson, Elizabeth, 493, 683, 684, 685 

Wilson, Elizabeth A., 685 

Wilson, Eunice, 552, 686 

Wilson, Francis F., 685 

Wilson, George D., 685 

Wilson, Gertrude, 684 

Wilson, Gilbert, 137 

Wilson, Glorana, 553 

Wilson, Grace, 677 

Wilson, Hannah, 686 

Wilson, Henry, 685 

Wilson, James, 417, 424, 553, 684, 

685 
Wilson, James G., 282, 285, 684 
Wilson, James Grant, General, 285 
Wilson, Jeannie, 684 
Wilson, John, 487, 677, 683 
Wilson, John B., 685 
Wilson, Joseph, Captain, 98 
Wilson, Joseph, 487, 506, 552, 613, 

683, 684, 685 
Wilson, Jotham, 554, 684 
Wilson, Justus, 684 
Wilson, Kniffin, 684 
Wilson, Mary, 487, 494, 506, 553, 684, 

685, 686 
Wilson, Mary G., 684 
Wilson, Nancy, 685 
Wilson, Nehemiah, 123, 129, 134, 138, 

392, 686 
Wilson, Nehemiah, 3d, 189 
Wilson, Peter, 139 
Wilson, Phebe, 684 
Wilson, Roger, 685 
Wilson, Samuel, Lieutenant, 98 
Wilson, Samuel, 457, 487, 662, 683 
Wilson, Samuel, Jr., 487 
Wilson, Samuel G., 685 
Wilson, Sarah, 508, 683, 685 
Wilson, Sarah E., 684 
Wilson, Susannah, 613, 684, 685, 686 
Wilson, Thomas, 137, 683, 685 
Wilson, Thomas G., 684, 685 
Wilson, Thomas M., 685 
Wilson, Uriah, 80 
Wilson, WiUiam, 75, 686 
Wilson, William C., Rev., 435 
Wilson, William J., 685 
Winans, James, 61, 487 
Winchel, James, 424 
Winchel, Jonas, 74 
Wing, Henry E., Rev., 430 
Wing, Maria, 668 
Winkelman, Johannes, 7, 9 
Winter, Alpheus, Rev., 412 

Winthrop, , Governor, 6, 316 

Winthrop, Elizabeth F., 21 
Winthrop, Henry, 6 



Winthrop, Martha J., 607 

Winus, John H., 241 

Wiswell, David, 522 

Witherell, Nathaniel, 344, 349, 353 

Witherwax, Billy, 336 

Wood, , 537, 541, 573, 640 

Wood, David, 118, 119, 135, 176, 593, 

599 

Wood, Deborah, 512 

Wood, Frank, 241 

Wood, Halsted, 75 

Wood, Hezekiah, 126 

Wood, Israel, 125 

Wood, James, 487, 616 

Wood, John, 620 

Wood, Jonah, 82, 84 

Wood, Joseph, Lieutenant, 98 

Wood, Joseph, 128, 132, 487 

Wood, Margaret, 527 

Wood, Mary, 525 

Wood, Stephen, 138 

Wood, Sybil, 620 

Wood, Thomas, 502 

Wood, William, 533 

Wood, William L., 251 

Woodford, Stewart L., General, 285 

Woodruff, EUzabeth, 531 

Woodruff, Hannah, 647 

Woodruff, John, 531 

Woodruff, Matthew, 647 

Woodruff, Robert, Rev., 437 

Woodruff, RoUin S., Colonel, 273 

Woods, John, 626 

Woods, Lydia, 626 

Wool, John E., General, 244 

Woolsey, EUjah, Rev., 428, 430, 432 

Wooster, — — , General, 132, 152 

Wooster, Ebenezer, 66 

Wooster, Joseph, Captain, 69 

Worden, , 621 

Worden, Abigail, 686, 687 

Worden, Abraham M., 250 

Worden, Alonzo, 687 

Worden, Alva H., 389 

Worden, Amos, 687 

Worden, Andrew, 72, 686, 687 

Worden, Annie, 687 

Worden, Charity, 687 

Worden, Daniel, 382, 487, 686 

Worden, Dean, 687 

Worden, Demeas, 686 

Worden, Eliakim, 687 

Worden, Eliakim F., 251 

Worden, EUzabeth, 382, 686 

Worden, Gabriel, 382, 483, 488, 686 

Worden, Gilbert, 686 

Worden, Hannah, 687 

Worden, Hopestill, 382, 686 

Worden, Isaac, 258, 687 

Worden, Job, 382, 488, 686 



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Worden, Margaret, 382, 686 

Worden, Mary, 687 

Worden, Mercy, 687 

Worden, Nathaniel, M.D., 288, 382, 

488, 686, 687 
Worden, Nathaniel, 382, 417, 477, 

488, 686 
Worden, Nathaniel, Jr., 417 
Worden, Noah, 134 
Worden, Phebe, 687 
Worden, Rebecca, 687 
Worden, Roger, 382, 592, 686 
Worden, Samuel, 77, 382, 446, 488, 

686, 687 
Worden, Saunders, 687 
Worden, Thankful, 382, 686, 687 
Worden, Zenas M., 258, 687 
Wray, George B., Rev., 430 
Wright, Abigail R., 370 
Wright, Benjamin, Lieutenant, 239, 

274, 278, 279, 359, 370 
Wright, Benjamin M., Rev., 278, 

279 
Wright, Daniel I., Rev., 430, 432 
Wright, Edward J., 264, 393 
Wright, James, 74, 82, 251, 488, 682 
Wright, Joel, 513 
Wright, Mary C, 512 
Wright, Reuben, 82 



Wright, Simeon, 139 
Wright, Solomon, 181 
Wright, Sylvanus, 82 
Wright, Wilbur S., 296, 299, 370 
Wyman, George, 215 



Yarrington, Benjamin M., Rev., 419, 

420, 423 
Yarris, Adonijah, 84 
Yates, John, Captain, 143 
Yeras, Nathan, 77 
York, Daniel, 488 
Youngs, Anne, 652 
Youngs, Benjamin, 417 
Youngs, Daniel, 426 
Youngs, Isabel, 679 
Youngs, John, Rev., 643 
Youngs, Joseph, 491 
Youngs, Mary, 643 
Youngs, Ruth, 645 
Youngs, Thomas, 135, 488, 541 



Zeiter, John E., Rev., 430 
Total number of names, 7739. 



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